{"id":39757,"date":"2024-10-22T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/2024\/10\/22\/lawyer-says-desantiss-office-pressured-him-to-send-abortion-ad-letters-to-tv-stations\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:24:05","slug":"lawyer-says-desantiss-office-pressured-him-to-send-abortion-ad-letters-to-tv-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/2024\/10\/22\/lawyer-says-desantiss-office-pressured-him-to-send-abortion-ad-letters-to-tv-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer says DeSantis\u2019s office pressured him to send abortion ad letters to TV stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XRTTRBZCOFAVNF5XRCXEDRO43M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties if they aired a political ad backing a referendum that would repeal the state\u2019s six-week abortion ban came directly from Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s office, according to the attorney who signed and sent them.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KBSLYHHQI5H57PM525FX4TRLQI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Attorney John Wilson said that he resigned as general counsel for the Florida Department of Health rather than \u201ccomplying with the directives\u201d of DeSantis\u2019s executive staff to send more cease-and-desist letters to TV stations running the ad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties if they aired a political&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketmakersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}