AROUND THE DISTRICT
SERVICE ACADEMY NOMINATIONS
The two most important jobs I have as a Congressman are to represent my constituents, and to nominate students to the United States service academies. These students represent the very best of our district and the entire country.
Next Friday (January 28, 2021), it will be my great privilege to announce this year’s service academy nominees. Due to the pandemic, it will be a digital event. If you’re interested, please visit here to register!
COVID-19 VACCINE INFORMATION
Baptist Health Care is working in partnership with Escambia and Santa Rosa counties to provide scheduling and clinical support for those counties’ vaccination events. On January 13, Baptist team members administered 522 vaccinations at an event in Gulf Breeze. Additional vaccination events will be scheduled as more supplies of the vaccine become available.
Additionally, eighteen Publix supermarkets across Escambia, Santa Rosa, and Okaloosa counties have begun administering COVID-19 vaccines to residents 65 and older. Each location can administer 100-125 vaccine shots per day.
You must sign up for an appointment to receive a COVID vaccine shot. Please visit publix.com/covidvaccine for more information.
Finally, veterans in Northwest Florida can schedule an appointment to receive the vaccine through the Pensacola Veterans Affairs Clinic. Currently the vaccines are only being given to those over age 75 and first responders, but your name will be put on a list. Please call 228-523-4512 or visit here to sign up.
- For residents of Santa Rosa County, please visit here to place your name on the vaccine waiting list.
- For residents of Escambia County, please visit here.
PASSING OF A LOCAL SPORTS LEGEND
On Monday, January 18, Pensacola’s first national sports star, Don Sutton, passed away at age 75. One of the most accomplished pitchers in baseball history, with a career spanning from 1966 to 1988, Sutton was a four-time All-Star, won 324 career games, and is seventh on the MLB’s career strikeout list (with 3,254). In 1988, he was the first Pensacola player inducted into the Hall of Fame.
For more, see:
Pensacola News-Journal — January 19, 2021
Don Sutton passes away at 75: ‘He was Pensacola's first superstar athlete’
GAETZ IN THE NEWS
Florida Daily — January 18, 2021
Florida Delegation Calls on Operation Warp Speed Officials to Increase State’s Vaccine Allotment
Last week, members of the Florida congressional delegation sent a letter to Operation Warp Speed (OWS) officials requesting it increase Florida’s vaccine allotment to account for seasonal residents, which would improve access for Floridians. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Reps. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Kat Cammack, R-Fla., Ted Deutch, D-Fla., Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., Byron Donalds, R-Fla., Neal Dunn, R-Fla., Scott Franklin, R-Fla., Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Carlos Giminez, R-Fla., Brian Mast, R-Fla., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Bill Posey, R-Fla., John Rutherford, R-Fla., Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Greg Steube, R-Fla., and Michael Waltz, R-Fla., all signed the letter.
Newsweek — January 20, 2021
Lindsey Graham Thinks Donald Trump Will Remain Strongest Voice in Republican Party for Years
“‘Throughout the country, we see tremendous support for the president among the base because folks support the policies that put our country and our people first,’ said Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz on Fox News Tuesday. He added that Trump’s ‘spirit’ is needed in new Republican leadership, but in Washington, the Republican Party is not ‘immune from the temptations of the establishment.’”
Sky News — January 21, 2021
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz urges Republican leadership to stop ‘spitting in the eyes’ of Trump voters
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz says the Republican leadership in Congress needs to worry less about courting money from “woke-left companies” and concentrate on pushing forward the conservative policies enacted under the former Trump administration.
Florida Politics — January 21, 2021
Matt Gaetz says GOP establishment is ‘in shambles’ and is running from Donald Trump
Gaetz lambasted House and Senate GOP leaders in a segment entitled “the Future of the GOP,” on the pro-Donald Trump program Lou Dobbs Tonight. In the tradition of Newt Gingrich going after moderate Republicans three decades prior, the Panhandle Republican slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Rep. Liz Cheney for distancing themselves from former President Trump and the America First movement writ large. |
