(Records show that the Florida Department of Transportation has paid Vertol nearly $1.6 million to relocate "unauthorized aliens.") And the company the DeSantis administration hired to transport the migrants, Vertol Systems Company Inc., operates out of nearby Destin. "If Ron DeSantis wasn't running this little kidnapping operation in my backyard, maybe I could have had a little break."īefore arriving in Martha's Vineyard, the planes from San Antonio landed for a brief time at Bob Sikes Airport in Crestview, Florida, not far from Uhlfelder's home in Santa Rosa Beach. "It's like the Godfather movie: 'Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in,'" says Uhlfelder, who's married with two young children. But then came news of what he deems a "kidnapping operation": 48 migrants, most of them refugees from Venezuela, flown in two planes from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard, where they were left stranded as pawns in a political stunt. Uhlfelder says that after losing to Aramis Ayala in the 2022 Democratic primary, he'd planned to take a much-needed respite from trolling the governor. He followed that by starting a PAC called Remove Ron and ran for Florida attorney general. The stunt went viral and was featured on Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, and on countless national news outlets. A Miami native who now lives near Seaside, he first gained national fame back in 2020 when he dressed as the Grim Reaper and roamed Florida's beaches to protest DeSantis' COVID-19 policies. Uhlfelder, who bills himself to his 255,000 Twitter followers as "chief tormentor of Ron DeSantis," was again on the trail of the governor.
"The other day Governor DeSantis moved people through this airport." "I'm here because it's my understanding that this has been used as an airport to transport immigrants," Uhlfelder explained to the deputy. Standing outside a small airport in the Florida Panhandle on Monday night, attorney and activist Daniel Uhlfelder was approached by a deputy who shined a spotlight in his direction and asked with a southern drawl what he was doing there.
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