Why Florida Dems walked out of Joseph Ladapo's confirmation hearing

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.MaddowBlog: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo didn't seem too interested in answering Florida Democratic lawmakers' questions, so they left.

on Ladapo's confirmation hearing in Tallahassee yesterday, which was a predictably contentious affair.

Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book pressed Ladapo repeatedly to give a yes or no answer on whether vaccines are effective against COVID-19 at a meeting of the Health Policy Committee. Ladapo declined. "Yes or no questions are not that easy to find in science," he said.... Ladapo also declined to endorse masks, saying they hadn't been shown to have a significant effect on the spread of COVID-19.

He also wouldn't explain why Orange County's top public health official was put on administrative leave after encouraging his staff to get vaccinated. Ladapo also wouldn't say whether he regretted refusing to wear a mask around a Democratic lawmaker who'd recently been diagnosed with cancer.Democratic state Sen. Janet Cruz saying Ladapo's answers were"mired in words upon words" and"nonsense upon nonsense.

And so, rather than participate in a confirmation hearing in which the surgeon general didn't want to answer questions, Democrats on the panelThe Miami Herald talked to Republican state Sen. Aaron Bean who conceded Ladapo could do a better job answering questions."When you're asked what time it is, tell us what time it is.

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