[Genuine Realist]

Interesting that this thread seems to have withered so quickly, with everyone presumably believing the initial reporting and moving on, when, perhaps, that wasn't the entire picture:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fire...officials/

What's the phrase?  "Too good to check"?

Yes, and people in power have never lied about employees' behavior to justify firing them for political reasons.  Entire books have been written documenting these sorts of whistleblower cases in government.

Also, if she refused to cook the numbers, wouldn't that be insubordination?  I don't see how that's exculpatory for Florida.

PS If you want to document something political, please try to use a non-partisan source.  I read plenty of left-wing websites, but here I try to link solely to mainstream news sites.  You're not going to convince people on the other side of the political aisle with the National Review.

Stats in California are hard to quantify, I notice, varying from source. If your political bias is one way or the other, you call them 'cooked'. Otherwise, you accept the difficulty of being accurate in these matters.

[Genuine Realist]

Interesting that this thread seems to have withered so quickly, with everyone presumably believing the initial reporting and moving on, when, perhaps, that wasn't the entire picture:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fire...officials/

What's the phrase?  "Too good to check"?

Yes, and people in power have never lied about employees' behavior to justify firing them for political reasons.  Entire books have been written documenting these sorts of whistleblower cases in government.

Also, if she refused to cook the numbers, wouldn't that be insubordination?  I don't see how that's exculpatory for Florida.

PS If you want to document something political, please try to use a non-partisan source.  I read plenty of left-wing websites, but here I try to link solely to mainstream news sites.  You're not going to convince people on the other side of the political aisle with the National Review.

Stats in California are hard to quantify, I notice, varying from source. If your political bias is one way or the other, you call them 'cooked'. Otherwise, you accept the difficulty of being accurate in these matters.