Ocala, Florida is getting a new mega gas station, Buck-ees. 120 pumps.
The governor is pimping this real hard.
“They make so much stuff. They have those beaver nuggets, they have all kinds of barbecue they make...It’s basically like the Shangri-La of service stations when you go into a Buc-ee’s,” DeSantis said.
At one point on Friday, DeSantis threw bags of Buc-ee’s “Beaver Nuggets” into the crowd and asked people to try them.
Florida is building a new overpass on I-75 for it.
The owner is Arch "Beaver" Aplin.
According to campaign donation records, Aplin gave $100,000 last year to “Friends of Ron DeSantis,” a political action committee that backs Gov. DeSantis.
”...... I think the sooner that people are able to go to Buc-ee’s the better so why don’t we try to step on the gas. So stay tuned on that,” DeSantis said.
UPDATE FROM COMMENTS: H/T rsunde
The latest: Right after the governor’s reelection, the DeSantis administration directed an enormous sum of COVID relief money — $92 million — to a Florida developer and major political donor for a highway interchange near Daytona Beach next to the developer’s new housing and shopping development, The Washington Post reported.
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