A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Surgeon General is headed to the Granite State, hitting the campaign trail for the man who hired him next week.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo will appear with Ron DeSantis Wednesday at an event hosted by the Never Back Down super PAC.
“Dr. Ladapo will be attending in his personal capacity,” the super PAC notes, apparently recognizing the unusual optics of a state employee traveling during a workday for a presidential campaign event for the man who hired him.
The “Medical Freedom Town Hall” is conveniently located for those who plan on stepping off the ski slopes for a stump speech, at the McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester.
Ladapo was finally confirmed by the Florida Senate in 2023 mostly along party lines. He has reflected DeSantis’ contrarian view of COVID-19 precautions and mitigations that surfaced in full once Donald Trump left the presidency in 2021.
As Florida Politics’ Christine Jordan Sexton reported, Ladapo’s controversies surfaced even during the confirmation hearing, with Sen. Tina Polsky noting that the Surgeon General altered the findings of a state-produced study about COVID-19 vaccines to suggest some vaccines pose a significantly higher cardiac risk to young men.
The findings were criticized by professors at the University of Florida, where Ladapo also works, and the medical community at large. Ladapo’s findings were also contrary to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
That wasn’t Ladapo’s first run in with Polsky. Ahead of the confirmation hearing, he refused to comply with Polsky’s request that he wear a mask while visiting her in her Senate office. Polsky, who was being treated for breast cancer at the time, told Ladapo she was sick and asked him and his staff to wear a mask while in her office. When he refused to comply, Polsky told Ladapo and his staff they had to leave.
Ladapo and DeSantis have a mutual affinity that the Governor did not enjoy with predecessor Scott Rivkees, who was famously sidelined in the middle of a July 2020 roundtable when he noted that people may have to social distance for up to a year.
The Surgeon General has enthused about DeSantis’ character in situations far outside the narrow scope of setting state health policy, such as when he offered a testimonial to reporters after the Governor was taken to task for his reaction to a racist mass murder of three people at a Jacksonville Dollar General earlier this year.
The Surgeon General called it “terrible that people take advantage of the fact that he’s a different color from the poor victims of that tragedy to try and tie him into something.”
“It’s immoral and unfortunately it’s reflective of what we’ve been seeing for, you know, for many years, but certainly during the pandemic where people hide reality and they spin it and they try and make you buy what they’re trying to sell you. And it’s not true. It’s a total lie, and they try and take advantage of the Governor just because he’s not the same color as these people,” Ladapo said.
Ladapo added that DeSantis “has a wonderful heart” and said “it’s terrible that they do that and it’s terrible that they get to get away with it so often just because he’s not the same color as the people who were harmed.”
15 comments
PeterH
October 28, 2023 at 11:42 am
Ladapo is DeSantis’s political kiss of death! Sure! Campaign with the king of ignorance and stupidity!
My Take
October 28, 2023 at 11:51 am
Laquacko’s mass killings were last gasps in hospitals, not hands-on “wet work.”
Michael K
October 28, 2023 at 12:01 pm
Governor DeathSentence and his Death Squad come to New Hampshire to take more QAnon GOP lives!
tom palmer
October 28, 2023 at 4:41 pm
No surprise that Lapdog is there.
Earl Pitts "America's BIG VOICE on The Right" American
October 28, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Great news America,
I, Earl Pitts American, had the Poly Sci Division of The Earl Pitts American Fan Club run an analysis on the good citizens of New Hampshire.
What we determined was that if the citizens of NH see Ron campaigning with a Negro they will vote for Ron.
So we had a meeting to determime if we had any Negros we could enlist to take up there to NH and trot out on stage.
We’re sitting around drinking coffee, eating danish, and contemplating + going over our employee listings …. “Negros …. Negros …. how are we going to find just the right one?”
Then this real tall clean Negro with a nice crease in his slacks walks in and puts a stack of papers in front of Ron then asks Ron if there will be anything else. Without looking up Ron says no and thanks him. I asked Ron “Who was that Negro”? Ron told me “oh thats Joe from DOH” …. and America, the rest is history.
Earl Pitts American
Jay Smif
October 30, 2023 at 3:17 pm
Well Earl, you’re even more evil and racist than usual today, so I guess you managed to live through yet another weekend. With any luck, your cousins will catch up with you by Wednesday for stealing the last of their Oxy stash and then we’ll never have to hear from you again.
Hamas Earl
October 31, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Hamas Earl, now on the wrong list.
C. Christy
October 28, 2023 at 6:45 pm
Earl this is Chris do you know any negros in New Jersey?
Thanks Earl uhh asking for a friend
Tom
October 29, 2023 at 10:44 am
These two give clowns a bad name.
Hamas Earl
October 31, 2023 at 4:19 pm
The Keystone Kops are blushing…
Hamas Earl
October 31, 2023 at 4:18 pm
Not a doctor and not a lawyer, awesome.
MH/Duuuval
October 31, 2023 at 10:17 pm
Dr. Ladapo innoculates Ron Dee against charges of white racism.
Hamas Earl
November 1, 2023 at 7:09 am
But he is the J&J version, so NOT inoculated against charges of racism…
MH/Duuuval
November 1, 2023 at 11:43 am
Ron did admit to taking one J&J shot, so … .
Electoral Dysfunction
November 1, 2023 at 1:09 pm
Kinda proves why the guy is DeathSantis’s chief health officer; it’s certainly not about the “science.” But deployment to New Hampshire, where the number of black Republicans is in the single digits?!?!
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