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DeSantis removed this prosecutor who then won back her seat. Could she be ousted again?
A scenario that loomed over Andrew Warren’s campaign is playing out up the road from Tampa with Monique Worrell.All through last year’s campaign season, a question loomed: If Andrew Warren won the race for Hillsborough County state attorney, would Gov. Ron DeSantis remove him from office again?
Warren lost the November election, so the question in Tampa was rendered moot. But 80 miles east on Interstate 4, what could have happened is playing out in real time.
Monique Worrell was sworn into office last month for a second term as the elected state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties. She took the oath amid whispers of a confidential executive order and a state grand jury investigation in a neighboring county, apparently focused on her.
Like Warren, Worrell is a progressive Democrat who ran on reforming the criminal justice system. Like Warren, she was removed after DeSantis accused her of refusing to enforce state laws. Unlike Warren, she won reelection.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/02/14/monique-worrell-grand-jury-desantis-orange-osceola-state-attorney/