{"id":388315,"date":"2021-04-05T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=388315"},"modified":"2021-04-05T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:28:38","slug":"publix-democrat-state-official-blast-absolutely-false-and-offensive-cbs-60-minutes-smear-of-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/publix-democrat-state-official-blast-absolutely-false-and-offensive-cbs-60-minutes-smear-of-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Publix, Democrat State Official Blast \u2018Absolutely False And Offensive\u2019 CBS \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Smear Of DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpublix-democrat-state-official-blast-absolutely-false-and-offensive-cbs-60-minutes-smear-of-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=388315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-187.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Florida\u2019s largest grocery store and a Florida state official, who is a Democrat, slammed CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on Sunday evening following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cbs-deceptively-edits-reporters-interaction-with-fl-governor-ron-desantis-heres-what-he-really-said\">deceptive segment<\/a>&nbsp;the network aired about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).<\/p>\n<p>The segment featured reporter Sharyn Alfonsi ambushing DeSantis at a press conference last month and aggressively questioning him using a misleading narrative about the way that he has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. \u201c60 Minutes\u201d deceptively edited the interaction to remove nearly the entire portion of DeSantis\u2019 response in which he thoroughly answered Alfonsi\u2019s question and defused the central point of the segment.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonsi tried to suggest that Publix, the largest grocery store chain in Florida, had engaged in pay to play by donating money to DeSantis\u2019 campaign in exchange for being awarded a contract to distribute vaccines in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irresponsible suggestion that there was a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state\u2019s vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false and offensive,\u201d Publix said in a scathing statement slamming the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d segment. \u201cWe are proud of our pharmacy associates for administering more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine to date and for joining other retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to do our part to help our communities emerge from the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Florida state Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, slammed \u201c60 Minutes\u201d over the segment, saying that DeSantis\u2019 office did not push for selecting Publix. Moskowitz is the director of Florida\u2019s Division of Emergency Management and has overseen the state\u2019s response to the pandemic, \u201cincluding rolling out the vaccine distribution and ensuring masks get to front-line workers,\u201d The Sun Sentinel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/florida\/fl-ne-placeholder-state-broward-20210215-ab3ef7wvevh6vg2zf2fywgiwxm-story.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@60Minutes I said this before and I\u2019ll say it again. @Publix was recommended by [FL Division of Emergency Management] and [Florida Dept. Health] as the other pharmacies were not ready to start,\u201d Moskowitz tweeted. \u201cPeriod! Full Stop! No one from the Governor[\u2018]s office suggested Publix. It\u2019s just absolute malarkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8869047619048\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/60Minutes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@60Minutes<\/a> I said this before and I\u2019ll say it again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Publix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Publix<\/a> was recommended by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLSERT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FLSERT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HealthyFla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HealthyFla<\/a>  as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governors office suggested Publix. It\u2019s just absolute malarkey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/obkqYcbrzt\">https:\/\/t.co\/obkqYcbrzt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jared MASKowitz \ud83d\ude37 (@JaredEMoskowitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaredEMoskowitz\/status\/1378858730918449154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Transcript of the interaction between DeSantis and Alfonsi is featured below (<strong>All words appearing in bold were cut out by CBS News<\/strong>):<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"82\">\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ron DeSantis: So, first of all, that \u2014 what you\u2019re saying is wrong. That\u2019s\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: How is that not pay-to-play?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ron DeSantis: \u2014that, that\u2019s a fake narrative.&nbsp;<strong>So, first of all, when we did, the first pharmacies that had it were CVS and Walgreens. And they had a long-term care mission. So they were going to the long-term care facilities. They got the vaccine in the middle of December, they started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December to do LTCs. So that was their mission. That was very important. And we trusted them to do that. As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points. So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive through sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more. So we reached out to other retail pharmacies \u2014 Publix, Walmart \u2014 obviously CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission. And we said, we\u2019re going to use you as soon as you\u2019re done with that. For Publix, they were the first one to raise their hand, say they were ready to go. And you know what, we did it on a trial basis. I had three counties. I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different Publix. How was the experience? Is this good? Should you think this is a way to go? And it was 100% positive. So we expanded it, and then folks liked it. And I can tell you, if you look at a place like Palm Beach County, they were kind of struggling at first in terms of the senior numbers.&nbsp;<\/strong>I went, I met with the county mayor. I met with the administrator. I met with all the folks in Palm Beach County, and I said, \u201cHere\u2019s some of the options: we can do more drive-through sites, we can give more to hospitals, we can do the Publix,&nbsp;<strong>we can do this.<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;<strong>They calculated that 90% of their seniors live within a mile and a half of a Publix.<\/strong>&nbsp;And they said, \u201cWe think that would be the easiest thing for our residents.\u201d&nbsp;<strong>So, we did that, and what ended up happening was, you had 65 Publix in Palm Beach. Palm Beach is one of the biggest counties, one of the most elderly counties, we\u2019ve done almost 75% of the seniors in Palm Beach, and the reason is because you have the strong retail footprint. So our way has been multifaceted. It has worked. And we\u2019re also now very much expanding CVS and Walgreens, now that they\u2019ve completed the long term care mission.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: The criticism is that it\u2019s pay-to-play, governor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ron DeSantis: And it\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s a fake narrative. I just disabused you of the narrative. And you don\u2019t care about the facts. Because, obviously, I laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: Well, I\u2014 I was just\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ron DeSantis: And, so, it\u2019s clearly not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: Isn\u2019t there the nearest Publix \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ron DeSantis: No, no, no. You\u2019re wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: \u201430 miles away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ron DeSantis: You\u2019re wrong. You\u2019re wrong. Yes, sir?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharyn Alfonsi: That\u2019s actually a fact.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s largest grocery store and a Florida state official, who is a Democrat, slammed CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on Sunday evening following a deceptive segment\u00a0the network aired about Florida Governor Ron &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311655,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-187.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Publix, Democrat State Official Blast \u2018Absolutely False And Offensive\u2019 CBS \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Smear Of DeSantis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-187.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Publix, Democrat State Official Blast \u2018Absolutely False And Offensive\u2019 CBS \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Smear Of DeSantis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}