Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a page out of Donald Trump’s book and decided to attack the media by denying the Miami Herald access to a COVID-19 coronavirus briefing, the newspaper’s Tallahassee Bureau Chief reported Saturday.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to violate the state’s public meeting laws and chose to exclude the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times from a media briefing at the Capitol,” Mary Ellen Klas reported.
“His media staff told another reporter, NSF’s Jim Turner, that if he insisted that we be allowed in, Turner would be kept out,” she noted.
You can read the Twitter thread below:
His media staff told another reporter, NSF's Jim Turner, that if he insisted that we be allowed in, Turner would be kept out. See video in the thread below.
— Mary Ellen Klas (@MaryEllenKlas) March 28, 2020
— Mary Ellen Klas (@MaryEllenKlas) March 28, 2020
You said you were going to be transparent throughout this process, why have to refused to disclose the nursing homes that have had COVID positive cases, except the one you considered negligent? /
— Mary Ellen Klas (@MaryEllenKlas) March 28, 2020
Another question we have asked @GovRonDeSantis but received not response: Do you agree @realDonaldTrump plan to rate counties of high medium and low risk? Do we have enough virus tests and antibody tests to scale up to reach this point?
— Mary Ellen Klas (@MaryEllenKlas) March 28, 2020
