Florida official who resigned after letter to TV stations over abortion ad blames DeSantis’ office
John Wilson, who has resigned as the Florida Department of Health’s general counsel, said in an affidavit that DeSantis’ office wrote the cease-and-desist letters and told him to “send them under my name.
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