Tampa Bay Times reports DeSantis press secretary how she got a job and is panned by critics

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The Tampa Bay Times published a bizarre account of the recently hired press secretary for the Republican governor of Florida Ron DeSantis and how she got into her job.

The report received the email Christina Pushaw, an admirer of his tenure as governor, sent to the DeSantis office in March about potential job opportunities.

“She wrote that she was inspired to move to Florida because the governor coped with the pandemic. Bothered by ‘pervasive … false stories’ in the press, she said, saying: she wanted to do her part in reducing the ‘devastation caused by socialism … on the governor’s communications team, I’d like to throw my hat in the ring. ”

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The Times exposé continued, “It is unclear who saw Pushaw’s note in Governor’s office, but it appears to have gone down pretty well. About six weeks later, the governor’s office sent her the paperwork to fill out before hiring had the job of press secretary. Her salary is $ 120,000 a year. “

The Florida newspaper insisted that Pushaw “reinvented” the position of governor’s press secretary from “extensive behind-the-scenes communications” to “one of the loudest pro-DeSantis drumbeats on the internet,” and posted on her quick Twitter Activity alert.

DeSantis communications director Taryn Fenske declined to comment on Pushaw’s hiring process to the newspaper, but called it “experienced, vocal and intelligent.”

That apparently wasn’t enough for the Tampa Bay Times, which then dabbled on her résumé and focused on her tenure as communications and media advisor to Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia, and a 2020 article she wrote allegedly had “ghost writings” for him, who discussed the police reform in his country. Soon the play plunged into Saakashvili’s legal issues that apparently have nothing to do with Pushaw.

The report, which was also reprinted in the Miami Herald, also spent time going through Pushaw’s outspoken criticism of Rebekah Jones, the laid-off Florida Department of Health officer, whose allegations that the DeSantis government directed her to review the COVID data of the State change, in recent reports have been dismantled. However, media outlets like the Times and the Herald have tried to save Jones’s credibility by highlighting how she earned “whistleblower” status despite her claims being rebuked.

The Miami Herald made its own headline when it republished the Times report that read “DeSantis’ prolific Twitter advocate used admiring email to get a job in his office”.

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Critics mocked the Times’ hit song and the Herald on social media.

“What kind of email should you send a potential employer?” asked the journalist Zaid Jilani. “Basically, she said that she seemed to like the DeSantis leadership and that she wanted to work for him.”

“Bahahaha, anyone attempting a DeSantis hit job fails in such a spectacular way that they are right to be afraid of them,” responded Tiana Lowe, commentator for the Washington Examiner.

“This seems like a pretty conventional route to employment. Does The Herald use a different tactic, such as contacting local methadone clinics for new writers? Inquiries based on recent content,” wrote Townhall.com’s Brad Slager.

Twitter users also drew attention to the article’s author, the Tampa Bay Times government reporter Kirby Wilson, who appears to be the son of the newspaper’s former editor-in-chief Mike Wilson, now deputy sports editor of the New York Times.

According to his LinkedIn page, Kirby Wilson started working for the Tampa Bay newspaper in 2015, two years after his father left.

Kirby Wilson did not respond to Fox News’ inquiries, including whether or not his father played a role in his journalism career and in his current tenure with the Tampa Bay Times.

Pushaw seemed pleased with the apparent family revelation and responded with “Lol”.

Pushaw told Fox News, “I am fortunate to work for the best governor in the country and I am honored to have been offered this job because it is a great opportunity to make a difference. Governor DeSantis leads the fight for individual rights against large people in government abuse, woke up corporations and lockdown lobbyists, and I’m proud to be part of his team! “

She added, “It’s amazing how every time the corporate media tries to make a hit on him it backfires.”

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This isn’t the first time Kirby Wilson has targeted a DeSantis employee. Back in November, he co-wrote an article describing another associate, COVID data analyst Kyle Lamb, as an “Uber-driving conspiracy theorist blogger.”

“In frequent posts on Twitter and on sports forums, Lamb said that masks do not prevent the spread of the coronavirus; that locks are ineffective; that hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by President Donald Trump, can treat the virus; that COVID-19, which he said could be part of a Chinese “bio-war”, is no more deadly than the flu; and that the virus was not dangerous for children … then.

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