A former Florida state Department of Health lawyer writes in an affidavit he refused to sign letters drafted by Napoleonic Governor Ron DeSantis’s counsel threatening TV stations for airing ads urging people to vote yes on the abortion referendum next month and resigned, Florida Politics reports.
“I did not draft the letters or participate in any discussions about the letters prior to October 3, 2024,” wrote John Wilson, who said he quit his post as DOH General Counsel a week later because he refused to send more letters to the stations. “I received drafts of the letter directly from Sam Elliot, Assistant General Counsel for the Executive Office of the Governor, earlier that day.”
Wilson, along with QAnon-ish fucking quack state Surgeon Joseph Ladopo, were slapped with a lawsuit by an abortion rights group that led a judge to put a temporary restraining order on the DeSantis Regime from threatening any TV stations. The plaintiff, Floridians Protecting Freedom, voluntarily dismissed Wilson as a defendant after he submitted the affidavit to the court.