Elected State Prosecutor Suspended By Ron DeSantis Calls Him a 'Weak Dictator'

“I am your duly elected state attorney for the ninth Judicial Circuit, and nothing done by a weak dictator can change that,” Monique Worrell, the Democratic state prosecutor for Orange and Osceola counties in central Florida, defiantly told media outside her Orlando office on Wednesday after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) brazenly suspended her and replaced her with his own conservative pick from the Federalist Society. DeSantis announced at a press conference Wednesday morning that he was removing the elected official from office—who won in 2020 with 67 percent of the...