Talk about a complete lack of self-awareness * insert wide-eyed stare*! Democratic Congressional District 1 candidate in Florida, self-proclaimed “COVID whistleblower,” alleged felon, fired geographer, and never-ending drama queen extraordinaire Rebekah Jones has been on a roll these past few weeks, and have they ever been a doozy.

Once she’d beaten back an unsuccessful attempt to strike her from the primary ballot (her legal residency was questioned), she was off to the races – vanquishing foes, real and imagined (and she imagines quite a bit). She emerged large and put herself in charge.

Her first order of business upon securing the Democratic nomination was to immediately flame the local county Democratic hierarchy in a blistering email sent to…oh, everybody (via VoteJones22.com)!

…We also have concerns about some of the negative associations being made with democratic groups and would like to be on the same page on how to address them.

Chiefly, the SUPER PAC using the “Women Against Matt Gaetz” Facebook page as a front CANNOT be supported, mentioned, shared or in any way associated with the democratic party or candidates in this region. We have already filed a complaint with the FEC and requested their removal from ActBlue. They are a DeSantis-funded effort operating without transparency and diverting energy and resources to bad actors named in a lawsuit from my campaign. These people have already done untold damage to our cause and candidates and cannot use our limited publicity and resources any further. They also co-opted three protests organized by women in our district and at each one my team and I witnessed them arguing with police officers, refusing to follow basic guidance about where to stay (off the street, for example) or what we were/were not allowed to do, and at one protest several of the men with their group nearly started a fight. This endangers every person who participates in protests. If you need more information about this and what we know about these people/this club, do not hesitate to ask. We have tried having this conversation with several of you repeatedly and have been ignored, dismissed and even berated. They’re not helping. Stop promoting them. There are bigger issues at play.

Peggy Schiller appears unwilling to concede, unwilling to apologize for her lies and the damage she’s done to our efforts, or for trying to steal the election from the voters, or any of the harmful and even illegal things she has done. Those who have participated in those activities cannot be associated with our efforts. There are criminal charges pending against several people associated with her campaign, including a democratic candidate for office in this area. I realize you may not like that, but we asked and even begged for the party to intervene earlier and they – you – refused. The self-destructive obstructionists need to go. The cowardice needs to stop. The shady gossip and high school-level drama should have never been allowed to continue. No one wanted to step up when it would have been contained, so now we’re going to send a message using these people as an example. I don’t threaten. I act.

We also need to discuss the permanent removal and expulsion of club leaders who violated the bylaws and oaths of their positions in helping this sham opposition campaign, including the permanent expulsion of Diane Krummel and Samantha Herring. I’ve spoken to leaders at the national party, and if I have to drag Jamie Raskin down here to put a stop to this personally, he has agreed to do so. You don’t want Raskin here. Trust me. If you thought I was someone who takes no shit, you have no idea what that man brings when he’s called in…

YOICKS!

“RELEASE THE RASKIN!!!” is not exactly the call for unity a carpetbagging newcomer’s campaign should bugle, is it? One would think not, but…maybe she already has more help than she needs.

In case that appeal to authority in the hardworking echelon of local party types wasn’t enough, she dropped this absolute corker on FB shortly thereafter. I can see her going after our district’s State Representative – he’s a Republican, so have at it. But GOL-LEE-NELL, girlfriend! She unloads on the local Democratic nominee who has to face him in November! Again, she’s pretty vile when she gets spooled up.

“I’m not a party loyalist.”

Oh, DO. TELL.

Jones’ last sentence in that awesome diatribe is just a case study of complete blind self-absorption. She can’t begin to see the irony of her mouthing “recruit decent people,” with the baggage she’s carrying, the lives she’s tried to ruin, and the verbal garbage she’s spewing.

Ermagerd.

“What were primary voters thinking around here?!” you might well ask. Welp. For the most part, and to the eternal shame of what passes for our local media anymore, they never really heard any more about Rebekah Jones other than she was a whistleblower during COVID, she’s a wispy, fragile-looking blonde, and she isn’t Matt Gaetz. What’s not to love – if you don’t know, and there’s nowhere to learn – about the cyber-stalking, revenge porn, arrests in different states, the pending felony charges, the retraction of her whistleblower status after a thorough state investigation, and her attempts to destroy several people’s lives for merely questioning her. She even has a lawyer who was just roundly defeated in a bid for the Democratic state attorney general nomination sending out cease and desist letters for using the Rebekah facts in any conversation concerning her.

4/1/22:

Alleged felon & fired geographer Rebekah Jones (I-MD, D-FL) repeats her endorsement of Daniel Uhlfelder (the "Grift Reaper") for Attorney General.

Uhlfelder, one of Jones' attorneys, has sent cease & desist letters to Florida residents who discuss Jones' criminal record pic.twitter.com/sKPtXPZU0s

— max (@MaxNordau) April 9, 2022

She’s also released a poignant new video. Tugs at the heartstrings, if one knows nothing about her.

Ew.
But, HEY! She’s NOT MATT GAETZ, right? The same Matt Gaetz always referred to as “under investigation,” “MAGA,” and “teenage girls.” Trigger word-a-palooza. She’s a “whistleblower,” who looks like Eowyn and talks like a sailor (Don’t ask about her sword – you can already tell it’s a shiv.).

Again. The woman who has been literally been CHARGED – that means booked and arrested – is being allowed by local and state media to hammer a man who has only rumors, innuendo, and leaks dragging around behind him.

Is that bias in your pocket, reporter man, or are you just glad to see me?

I know it’s going to go south from here before Election Day. There are some of her outbursts on local citizens’ boards and on her campaign website that are so out of touch with even mainstream Democrats in our little corner of the Redneck Riviera corner. But she’s merely a symptom of the sickness infecting the whole. We just get to watch it from close-up, instead of having it play out in a Squad state.

Years ago, when we first moved here, someone explained to me that our beautiful sugar sand, squeaky-to-the-feet white beaches were so because they were made of crushed crystal, not silica. Then she kind of laughed, and asked me, “But do you know what’s wrong with that?” I didn’t have a clue, of course. “Well,” she said. “Crystal is nothing but a natural transistor. So what we have spread for miles here is one big beacon, calling in God knows what from all over the universe. And when you meet some of them, you’ll understand how they got HERE.”

I’ll just curse the beach beacon for Jones. The call of the crystal never fails.

Dang it.