Over the last few years, Florida has gone from being the Sunshine State to the Political Patronage State.

Campaign donors and political allies keep cashing in — on no-bid construction contracts down at “ Alligator Alcatraz ,” shady insider deals at the governor’s Disney district for government services and in hastily arranged real estate deals for campaign donors who want government to pay them more for land than anyone in the free market ever would.

In many of these deals, other Florida-owned businesses didn’t even get a chance to bid on the public contracts. So they get shut out, and taxpayers get hosed while donors to and allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida Republicans gorge like pigs at a trough.

The concept of political spoils isn’t new. But this is a new level of b

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