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BUSTED: Florida’s GOP governor illegally denied Miami Herald access to coronavirus briefing
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) (Photo: Screen capture)

BUSTED: Florida’s GOP governor illegally denied Miami Herald access to coronavirus briefing

Gov. Ron DeSantis denied 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.

Klas revealed the questions DiSantis would have been asked in a Twitter thread:

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