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Attorney George Levesque's response calls Michael Barfield's complaint against Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh "ridiculous and false."
The attorney for Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh issued a statement Friday on Baugh's behalf in response to what he termed as "ridiculous and false allegations" levied by Sarasota's Michael Barfield.
Barfield, the board president for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, filed a complaint with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office about Baugh's role in setting up a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch that had been requested by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The complaint also concerns Baugh sending a list of five names — herself, Schroeder-Manatee Ranch CEO and President Rex Jensen, Lawrence Jensen and two of Baugh’s neighbors — to Public Safety Director Jacob Saur as "names for vaccination requested" Feb. 15, two days before the site opened.