As Ron DeSantis pursues the presidency, his wife’s role is limitless. Casey, 42, isn’t a typical political spouse. Why does that inspire so much fear? Her rise in TV and insular marriage tell the story.
it with the language of zero tolerance. Listen to him talk on stage: The pandemic was a “Faucian dystopia.” Woke ideology is a “mind virus.” Parents are seeing gender
People looked to Casey as a way to explain something about the governor — to reinforce or mitigate their ideas about his hardness. They noticed what she wore. They mocked or admired her white gloves and caped gowns — an imitation Jackie Kennedy or Melania Trump, depending on who was looking. They criticized her for going by her middle name, Casey, instead of her first name, Jill, even though she has always gone by Casey.
She spent 15 years in the city, 160 miles east of Tallahassee. It was 2003 when she arrived. She was still Jill Casey Black, 23 years old, — she booked the interview herself. When she learned about the story of J.T. Townsend, a high school football player left paralyzed by a spinal cord injury on the field, she wrote and produced athat earned a Suncoast Regional Emmy nomination. “You could tell that that was her passion — telling stories like that,” said Chanel LeBlanc, one of Casey’s producers.
When it was just the two of them in the office, LeBlanc finally asked Casey if she was pregnant. “She was like, ‘Oh! No,’” LeBlanc recalled. She let it go. About a week later, she received a text from Casey with an official pregnancy announcement, released through Ron’s office.Casey was in the office by 7:30 a.m., ready for the morning show, and she was out as soon as “The Chat” finished taping at 4 p.m. She had a baby at home, a girl named Madison, and a long commute.
said, was Trump. “Ron always said this guy was just an idiot.” Often, communication with staffers occurred through text message,Congress isn’t a period of the DeSantis track record that he talks about much. Inconvenient components of the couple’scareer in a field he now says is “so corrupt” — have a way of being ignored or erased.
. But even during the campaign that year, two former staffers said, Ron and Casey had reminded people to pronounce it correctly, the old way: “DEE-Santis.”At a certain point, people just assumed: The change in pronunciation was Casey’s idea.As Thanksgiving approached ahead of the inauguration, staffers planned for Ron and Casey to spend the day before the holiday at Trinity Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter in Jacksonville. The couple helped prep and stuff turkeys in the kitchen.
But sometimes decisions happened the way they did — whole campaign ads were produced and paid for, event sites were moved — simply because Casey wanted it so. Lawmakers expecting direct communication from the governor sometimes got handwritten notes on “First Lady of Florida” letterhead instead. “Nothing really happened without Casey’s blessing, approval or awareness,” said a former administration official. “I do think that she puts the fear of God into people.
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