Ron DeSantis’s Biggest Donor Is a Budget Hotel Tycoon With a Passion for UFOs
The $10 million contribution came on July 7, after Robert Bigelow, the Budget Suites of America hotel tycoon, contacted DeSantis’s office for a meeting, according to two people involved in the governor’s fundraising efforts. In the past, Bigelow had given small amounts of money to Democrats and Republicans, and sometimes they advanced his well-known passions: researching UFOs, aliens, and whether the human soul can outlive the body after death.