{"id":1488678,"date":"2022-05-23T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488678"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:00:47","slug":"florida-governor-ron-desantis-named-to-times-100-most-influential-people-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-named-to-times-100-most-influential-people-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Named To Times \u2018100 Most Influential People\u2019 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-governor-ron-desantis-named-to-times-100-most-influential-people-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was included as one of Time magazine\u2019s \u201c100 Most Influential People\u201d list released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis was included among a wide array of leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Time\u2019s list of influential celebrities, politicians, activists, and other leaders is divided into six categories\u2014artists, innovators, titans, leaders, icons, and pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite relentless criticism, Governor Ron DeSantis kept schools open, ensured Florida\u2019s economy remained open for business, and allowed individuals to determine their own risk tolerance,\u201d former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush wrote in his description of DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> named one of Time\u2019s 100 most influential people of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Blurb written by former FL Gov Jeb Bush. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JkBu50vian\">pic.twitter.com\/JkBu50vian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay O&#8217;Brien (@jayobtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayobtv\/status\/1528740216458162178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis approach works. It\u2019s one that has allowed Florida to emerge from the pandemic as a national model of personal freedom, economic growth, environmental protection, and education excellence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2022\/6177679\/ron-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">description<\/a> noted that DeSantis does not fit in with Washington\u2019s elite, but his results have led to a surge of influence felt far beyond Florida\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Beltway crowd may not like his style, it\u2019s his record that will become his legacy,\u201d the governor\u2019s profile concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s job rate more than doubled that of the nation while generating the largest budget surplus in the state\u2019s history, <a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/desantis-lands-on-times-100-most-influential-people-of-2022-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Florida\u2019s Voice. \u201cFlorida had 0.7% job growth while the U.S. at large had .3%. Florida is also now registering almost 45% of the nation\u2019s market share for international tourism,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor DeSantis announced Florida will have $20 billion in reserves, making it the largest budget surplus in the state\u2019s history,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The honor comes as\u00a0DeSantis announced on Monday the launch of the Florida Hometown Heroes Housing Program to help Floridians in more than 50 critical professions purchase their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was included as one of Time magazine\u2019s \u201c100 Most Influential People\u201d list released on Monday. DeSantis was included among a wide array of leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Time\u2019s list of influential celebrities, politicians, activists, and other leaders is divided &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1488704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}