🧵🪡 Thread: Debunking FALSE, irrelevant & unnecessary @CommunityNotes placed on @TrumpWarRoom’s tweet.
On March 17, 2020 DeSantis wrote executive orders directing:
Pursuant to sections252.36(5)(g)-(h),FloridaStatutes, an licensee authorized to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises that derive more than 50% of its gross revenue from the sale ofalcoholic beverages… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Upon initial re-opening into phase 1, businesses that derived more than 50% revenue from alcohol sales on premises could not be open due to DeSantis’ executive order that suspended sales on-premise of alcohol.
DeSantis singed his executive order to allow all of Florida to open… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Effective June 5, 2020, DeSantis signed an executive order permitting Florida to move into Phase 2 re-opening…
Bars & other vendors that sold alcohol on premises were allowed to open at 50% capacity.
***EXCEPT*** Florida’s 3 most populated counties (Palm Beach, Broward &… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
On June 26, 2020, citing the authority given to them from DeSantis’ Executive order 20-52 for the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, an executive order was made to SUSPEND the ability for all vendors licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There were talks of Palm Beach County moving to phase 2 in early June. But that never materialized.
September 1, 2020 Public record from a Florida Government meeting in Palm Beach County regarding who controls the reopening:
“Who controls the reopenings…-Commissioner McKinlay
“The Governor has to put us in phase 2”- Mayor Dave Kerner
“If it’s a bar, it can’t be open at this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 3, 2020:
Listen to all the employees who had to be laid off due to ordered closures!
“In Governor DeSantis’ roundtable discussion in St. Petersburg on Thursday, he said the logic is that people at bars could be more likely to break social distancing guidelines due to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Let’s rewind back to Sept. 1, 2020.
Palm Beach County was still not in Phase 2 yet so bars were never ever allowed to open if they derived 50% of their gross revenue from onsite alcohol sales.
“We are offering our suggestions to the Governor {DeSantis} and he will ultimately… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 3, 2020, DeSantis issued his Executive Oder allowing Palm Beach County into his phase 2 plan for reopening:
Which again, bars & other businesses that derived more than 50% revenue from alcohol sales on premises could NOT be open due to DeSantis executive order that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 14, 2020, DeSantis’ Department of Business & Professional Regulation lifted their prohibitions of alcohol sales for venues that derived greater than 50% of gross revenue from alcohol sales on premises which was in place since June 26, 2020.
Now, bars & businesses in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Just listen to the business owners affected:
FACTUAL inaccuracies with the @CommunityNotes
✅YES—it’s a FACT businesses were ORDERED SHUT in #Florida into SEPTEMBER 2020 under the authority of DeSantis’ executive orders.
💥READ the detailed evidence above in this thread.💥
❌ “Bars and Restaurants initially opened May… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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