There were still consultants paid and campaign donations collected from the Florida GOP machine at fundraising dinners and such - while it surely didn’t see the money of a race in a battleground state there was an obscene amount of money spent on a campaign of someone who ultimately didn’t plan to serve.
Oh, I’m sure they spent the money. My question was whether they actually needed to.
The other thing I’m not 100% clear on is if Gaetz would have stepped down anyway if not for the AG nom. Right now I’m at about 50-50 on that. Even if he did step down, it may not have been until sometime after he was seated. This nomination really sped up the timeline.
My point exactly, at the end of the day it’s all a big grift.
Corruption is the cornerstone of electoral politics.