His father, Michael, is one of the top Democratic fundraisers in the state. On the contrary: He describes himself as a “progressive,” served as a Democrat in the Florida legislature until 2019, and has worked in various capacities for Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, and Barack Obama.
It’s just absolute malarkey.” Moskowitz, note, is no ideological ally of Governor DeSantis.
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Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governors office suggested Publix. “Publix was recommended by FLSERT and HealthyFla as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. “I said this before and I’ll say it again,” Jared Moskowitz wrote. So egregiously dishonest was 60 Minutes’ attempt that, shortly after it aired, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management took to Twitter to condemn it. There is a word for that sort of conduct, but it’s not “journalism.” Instead, the show took two facts that in no way intersect and pretended that they had a causal relationship. The show did not note that CVS and Walgreens got the vaccine first it did not explain the difference between the strategy for long-term-care facilities and the strategy for the broader population it did not mention that Walmart was also used in the delivery of vaccines to the general public it did not reference the work DeSantis has done extending the state’s effort to minority communities and, crucially, it did not make clear that the reason Publix was so prominent in the second phase of vaccinations was that it was the first grocery chain to be ready. None of this was apparent to viewers of 60 Minutes. So we reached out to other retail pharmacies: Publix, Walmart, obviously CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission and we said we’re going to use you as soon as you’re done with that. So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-thru sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more. As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points. So that was their mission, that was very important and we trusted them to do that. They got the vaccine in the middle of December, they started going to the long-term care facilities the third week in December to do LTCs. To believe that there is a connection between this routine behavior and decisions that were made during an unforeseen once-in-a-century pandemic is to stretch oneself to the breaking point.įirst of all, the first pharmacies that had were CVS and Walgreens and they had a long-term care mission, so they were going to the long-term care facilities. It is also true that it gave a million dollars to the progressive Urban League last year, and that, back in 2018, it gave $100,000 to Democratic campaigns in the state. It is true that Publix has recently given $100,000 to Ron DeSantis’s gubernatorial reelection bid. Irrespective of any other logistical considerations, it would have been surprising if Publix had not been one of the major players in the state’s effort. Not only is Publix the largest and most widely trusted grocery-store chain in the state of Florida, but the majority of its 831 stores in the state have well-equipped pharmacies at which Floridians are accustomed to getting flu shots.
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The supposed “problem” that 60 Minutes highlighted was that Florida’s government has used the popular grocery chain Publix to help it distribute COVID-19 vaccines, that Publix gave $100,000 to Governor DeSantis’s re-election efforts last year, and that the combination of the two represents a quid pro quo. Americans who tuned in to 60 Minutes yesterday are now less informed than they were before it aired. It was an aspersion, a slander, a smear - a calculated and premeditated calumny contrived for one purpose and one purpose alone: To hint darkly at scandal where none exists, and, thereby, to damage DeSantis in 2022 and beyond. T here is no more accurate way of describing last night’s 60 Minutes segment on Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida than as a political hit job.
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