(THREAD) This article is from December. Since then, ex Key West mayor and #DeathSantis commission appointee Craig Cates has lost his wife and his 35-year-old daughter to COVID. All 3 got sick at a super spreader election party he hosted. 1/5 local10.com/news/local/202…
35-year-old Crystal Cates was being cared for at Jackson Memorial in Miami for 8 months. She had a double lung transplant on New Year's Eve. She passed away 2 weeks ago. Says fam friend, "Her father is a #DeathSantis Monroe County Commission appointee & has been silent about 2/5
COVID since losing his wife in December and still silent after just losing his daughter. She died a horrible death. I've known the family for 40 years and I have zero respect for him for not screaming from the rooftops about COVID after his wife's passing.If it were the other 3/5
way around, his wife would already have had a survivor's and awareness foundation and she'd be on every news show preaching about COVID safety and vaccines. Now his daughter is gone and he still hasn't publicly said a word and he's a fucking county commissioner and former 4/5
long time Key West mayor. It's infuriating."
Crystal Cates's birthday was yesterday. She would have been 36. "The Cates were decent folks but they were Republicans who loved Trump." RIP Cheryl and Crystal Cates and the other 38,395 Floridians who died preventable deaths.
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