{"id":60828,"date":"2025-07-09T17:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60828"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:46:52","slug":"did-you-know-267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/07\/did-you-know-267\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/July-5-2025-Did-You-Know-PHOTO.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60829\" style=\"width:493px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Did you know that Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 net worth has increased drmatically?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; net worth has indeed surpassed now well passed $2 million. Some are attributing DeSantis\u2019 increased financial worth largely due to earnings from his book, &#8220;The Courage to Be Free.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to his annual financial-disclosure report, DeSantis had a net worth of $2,087,550 as of December 31, 2024, and rising! That number has increased up, from $1,773,157 at the end of 2023.&nbsp;This increase is attributed to a $625,500 payment from HarperCollins Publishers LLC in 2024, the same amount he received in 2023, with the publishing company also paying him $1.25 million in 2022.&nbsp;DeSantis&#8217; financial disclosure forms show a significant growth in his net worth, from $318,986 in 2021 to $2.3 million in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis self-reported that he has a $1.3 million in a savings account with Interactive Brokers, $573,109 in his USAA checking and savings accounts, $116,859 in the Florida Retirement System, and $99,803 in thrift savings, a type of retirement plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 net worth has increased drmatically? Our Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; net worth has indeed surpassed now well passed $2 million.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60830,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60828\/revisions\/60830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}