Florida Politics: “Rebekah Jones announced on her brand-new Instagram account Tuesday that she intends to run for the U.S. House against Matt Gaetz in Florida’s 1st Congressional District. ‘One of the reasons I held off on making any final decisions about running for office was because that I hoped the criminal justice system would remove Matt Gaetz from Congress on its own. That is taking a very long time and none of it is certain, especially because the rich and powerful play by their own rules,’ Jones, in a video posted to the Instagram account, Insubordinatescientist, said.”
“Jones, currently a Maryland resident, had not filed campaign paperwork as of Tuesday. ‘I had hoped that someone in the Republican Party would step up and Primary him, and I’ve yet to see that happen. And so, if it takes me going home to Florida to run against Matt Gaetz, then I will do it. If it means getting one child sex trafficker out of office, you’re damn right I’ll do it,’ Jones said. Federal investigators are still looking into whether Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old.”