Florida GOP official who wanted to 'end Faucism' and mobilized people to protest COVID-19 mandates dies 24 hours after contracting the virus
A Florida GOP official has died from COVID-19, a year after he said that he wanted to 'end Faucism' and mobilize people to protest school masks mandates.
Before his death, Gregg Prentice, of Riverview, developed and updated software that could track donations to the Hillsborough County GOP electronically.
The 61-year-old was also head of the local Republican party's 'election integrity' committee, which alerted federal election regulators that it can no longer access its campaign finance software.
Now, Prentice's friends and colleagues are spreading wild conspiracy theories about the 'engineered virus,' and alleging he was 'illegally intubated' at a local hospital, according to a report from the
Prentice was placed on a ventilator and passed away the next day. It's unclear exactly when he was admitted to hospital and when he died.
Last year, former head of the Hillsborough Florida GOP official Gregg Prentice, wanted to 'end Faucism' and mobilized people to protest COVID-19 mandates
Dr. Fauci has been heavily criticized in Florida due to Governor DeSantis' on-going public shaming on his COVID-19 restrictions
Kimball called for an investigation into Tampa General during a Tampa City Council meeting and accused the hospital of 'intubating people illegally,' 48-hours after Prentice's death, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
His remarks were rebuffed from members of the City Council, who defended the hospital and labelled it as a word-class medical facility. John Dingfelder, Tampa City Council District 3's At-Large, said Kimball's comments were 'very dangerous.'
Kimball posted on Facebook: 'Tampa General Hospital ER and ICU doctors are criminals and murderers!!! They intubate everyone and stick them on a ventilator for NO REASON just 'out of precaution' as the doctor told me - WITHOUT consent from the family!!! Tampa General Hospital is evil.'
'We have a genetically engineered virus spreading around Florida,' Kimball said.
'We lost Gregg Prentice, a mentor to many in Hillsborough County, due to the engineered virus.'
Last year, Prentice also took a swipe at Hillsborough County administrator Mike Merrill for probiting gatherings of more than 50 people in the area
Prentice would regularly posts his criticism on Facebook
He praised Governor DeSantis for ignoring CDC guidelines and allowing churches to meet
Prentice heavily criticized local COVID-19 restrictions on his Facebook page last year.
'I am just hearing that our County Administrator Mike Merrill has PROHIBITED gatherings of more than 50 people?!?!?!' Prentice wrote in March 2020. 'What is his problem? How in the world does he take a CDC 'suggestion' and a Presidential 'recommendation' and turn it into a Merrill PROHIBITION?!?!? This kind of stupid isn't limited to a single topic. And what are we going to do about it? He needs to be gone.'
A month later, Prentice wrote, 'We need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing.'
'End Faucism,' he wrote in May 2020.
Hillsborough County Republican Party hosted an anti-mask, anti-vaxx with Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at its annual fundraiser -- a maskless indoor event that went against CDC recommendations, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (pictured) attended a Hillsborough County Republican party indoor event in August. The event did not involve any face masks and it is unsure as to whether Prentice attended
Prentice also recently appeared on a podcast during which he said that the pandemic designed to 'crush small businesses and consolidate power in the multinational corporations.'
Prentice concentrated on Florida's voter databases during his many years of activism within the local party — often making 'severe accusations' at elections supervisors in Democratic counties.
His work drew the attention of national conservative groups and GOP officials, who seeked his consultation when writing legislation.
As head of the election integrity committee, Prentice led efforts to question election results in various counties.
Data shared by doctors, hospitals and DeSantis has strong suggested that the vast majority of deaths in hospitals can be related to unvaccinated patients. Public health officials have blamed the highly transmissible nature of the Delta variant for the summer wave of cases and hospitalizations.
Florida has nearly seen 3.5million total confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Hillsborough County has seen 224,720 people test positive since the start of COVID-19
Florida's total number of COVID deaths broke 50,000 on Thursday and the seven-day average for number of new deaths was the second highest since the pandemic began, accelerated by the surge of the delta variant.
Florida reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1,554 additional deaths and 9,760 more COVID-19 cases, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data. In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,473,873 confirmed COVID cases and 50,811 deaths.
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