Ron DeSantis Pressured TV Station To Withdraw Pro-Choice Ad.

October 22, 2024 Glen Turpening

Ron DeSantis is no friend of abortion rights and that is clear from his hatred for the pro-choice ballot initiative in Florida. (Washington Post)

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. 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.”

'By Lori Rozsa ' Washington Post'