Does the buck stop at Gov. Ron DeSantis?

DeSantis didn’t build the unemployment website that is the source of this mess. He inherited it from his predecessor, then-Gov. Rick Scott, and now he wants an investigation.

But he should have known it was a pile of junk. As our reporter Lawrence Mower wrote, a state auditor eviscerated the website in an investigation last year.

Yet, when that was pointed out to him this week, DeSantis was quick to deflect blame.

"That was a report to Lawson,” DeSantis said Monday. “It was never anything that reached my desk. I never had anyone ask me for additional funding.”

DeSantis has made a habit of passing the buck when confronted with a controversy. And you don’t have to look far for examples.