Rebekah Jones said she was fired from Florida's health department in 2020 for not distorting COVID-19 data. State officials said she was fired for insubordination.
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Jones captured the search on video and posted it to social media, where it went viral. The raid caused an uproar among those who viewed her as a persecuted dissident of the DeSantis administration. Florida police raid the home of Rebekah Jones, a former state Department of Health employee who built the state's COVID dashboard before she was fired.
Her Democratic opponent, Peggy Schiller, had filed a suit alleging Jones had been a registered"unaffiliated" for a crucial two-month period while Jones lived in Maryland.A showdown vs. Rep. Gaetz "I'm not running on Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden. I've taken a lot of heat, actually, from my own party for being critical of Joe Biden, especially on COVID response and the Afghanistan debacle."