Remember when I noted that Ron DeSantis was threatening prosecutions against TV stations for running political ads that he did not like?
It seems like only yesterday. Wait ……… It was yesterday.
It now turns out that the lawyer who was tasked with sending these letters out has said that he was instructed to by the Florida Governor's office.
That's a criminal conspiracy:
Letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties if they aired a political ad backing a referendum that would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban came directly from Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office, according to the attorney who signed and sent them.
Attorney John Wilson said that he resigned as general counsel for the Florida Department of Health rather than “complying with the directives” of DeSantis’s executive staff to send more cease-and-desist letters to TV stations running the ad.
“I did not draft the letters or participate in any discussions about the letters prior to Oct. 3,” Wilson wrote in an affidavit filed in federal court Monday. Instead, he said, three attorneys on the governor’s staff gave him the letters to send.
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In an earlier letter, Wilson condemned the actions of the administration. “A man is nothing without his conscience,” Wilson wrote in a resignation letter on Oct. 10 obtained by the Miami Herald. “It has become clear in recent days that I cannot join you on the road that lies before the agency.”
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Wilson also wrote in the affidavit on Monday that the governor’s office told him to find outside attorneys to “assist with enforcement proceedings” against TV stations that ran the “Caroline” ad.
How about a federal prosecution.
Bueller? Bueller? Garland? Garland?
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