Worst Florida governor ever: Madison S. Perry (1857-1861), but DeSantis catching up

[steve2470]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_S._Perry

During the years before the Civil War, Governor Perry foresaw the possibility that Florida might secede from the Union, and in 1858 he urged the reestablishment of the state's militia. Florida did secede three years later, on January 10, 1861. Perry then called for the evacuation of all federal troops from Florida, intending to replace them with the militia.

Last years

After his term as governor ended on October 7, 1861, Perry served as colonel of the 7th Florida Infantry Regiment until illness forced his resignation on April 30, 1863. He retired to his plantation in Rochelle, where he died in March 1865, shortly before the end of the American Civil War.

I cite Perry for the obvious reasons. However, DeSantis is catching up to him.....

Total COVID-19 deaths: 9,047 per https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/d2726d6c01c4486181fec2d4373b01fa

eta:

FLORIDA

ORDINANCE OF SECESSION

We, the people of the State of Florida, in convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish, and declare, That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America and from the existing Government of the said States; and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States ought to be, and the same is hereby, totally annulled, and said Union of States dissolved; and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union, be, and they are hereby, repealed.

Passed 10 Jan 1861

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/secession-acts-thirteen-confederate-states#FLORIDA

My assumption is that Perry signed this.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

1. Seriously, you know the bar isn't very high...

Like, a snake couldn't crawl under that bar on its belly...and if it could, we would elect it governor.

Hell, Andrew Gillum was caught in a hotel room too drunk to talk with a male prostitute who was overdosed on crystal meth. He would still be a better choice than DeSantis...

[AZ8theist]

2. The dead pigeon on my roof would make a better governor than DeathSantis...