Emergency management director resigns to join Collins campaign for governor

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Kevin Guthrie has resigned as director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management to join Lt. Gov. Jay Collins' campaign for governor, a day after Collins named him as his running mate. Gov. Ron DeSantis said he accepted the resignation to keep politics separate from emergency management, and named Florida DOT Secretary Jared Perdue as Guthrie's replacement.

Guthrie had led the agency since 2021, appearing alongside DeSantis during hurricane coverage and overseeing responses to storms, the COVID-19 pandemic, and immigration enforcement. Collins did not receive DeSantis's endorsement in the primary and polling has not favored him, with Tuesday's primary determining whether his campaign continues at all.

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An emergency management director leaving to join a campaign that polling suggests may not survive the week is either an act of loyalty or an act of timing, and it's not clear which is worse. DeSantis's tidy line about choosing politics or emergency management arrives a beat late, since the choosing already happened.

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