The FBI and Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a Shalimar man who threatened to kill Democratic Congressional candidate Rebekah Jones and her family in a voice message left on her cell phone last week. Jones sent the message to an Inweekly reporter over the weekend. She requested that we edit the audio to cut out the offensive language at the end.
Jones also received threatening text messages from the same man who didn’t try to disguise his cell number.
The threats came the same week Eugene Huelsman of Thousand Oaks, CA, was sentenced to six months of home confinement and five years of probation after phoning in threats to Congressman Matt Gaetz and his family after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
This post has created a buzz on Twitter and elsewhere with several disputing that Okaloosa County sheriff is investigating the call. Jones shared these text messages that were from the same number as the caller:
– “F$%K Jones! F$%k YOU! MATT GAETZ FOR THE WIN”
– “Matt Gaetz is going to beat you bc he doesn’t harass people like you! Plus women don’t belong as Governors or anyone like that bc y’all have too many personalities and too emotional to handle big decisions in life! Truth hurts! Don’t believe me then ask you husband bc he wears the pants and males(sic) all the big decisions in your house along with millions of others.”
UPDATE:
Rebekah Jones’ original announcement about the manhunt said “The FBI [is] searching for the man in cooperation with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department.”
When asked about the status of the investigation, the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office replied:
“There is no record of anyone with the name ‘Rebekah Jones’ having filed anything with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. I then double checked with supervision in both patrol and investigations. You may want to check with neighboring counties. “
Thank you, George Jones, for saying what a lot of us are thinking. It’s actually sad that her “cry wolf” mentality and never-ending Victimhood Theater resulted in my first thought on seeing the headline: “oh here we go…this ought to be good.”
And then I had to check myself with a reminder that, regardless all of the drama she tries to manufacture on the daily, and everything that has taken place in the past, this might indeed be a viable threat–which is no laughing matter, ever, and certainly not in the current climate.
Why feed it to the press, in that case, prior to the outcome of the investigation?
Actually, a better question is why I even bothered to ask. It’s just part and parcel of how her shenanigans and lies have sullied the parts of her whistleblowing that were valuable, and people don’t even try anymore to separate the wheat from the chaff. As I said to someone on my Facebook the other day who has had it with the division she has sewn, no, she did not lie about everything per covid.
But that’s how it’s being painted now, understandably. With the result that many people’s intense disgust with some of Rebekah’s actions now provides duck and cover for the levels of cover-up that DeSantis and the DOH actually did conduct. We had a front row seat here in Escambia for their fiasco of propaganda, disinformation, and outright falsehoods during the height of the most dangerous waves. And it looks likely we are in line to witness the end to a second fiasco born of the original falsehoods. If so, it will provide something of a bookend to a truly sad story that is so emblematic of our troubled times.
What evidence is there that there is a “manhunt” going on, or even an investigation? Rebekah didn’t provide the name of anyone that the public could contact if they had any information, and you’d think that a 10-day multi-agency investigative team would’ve turned up something by how.
Anyone can report a threat to the FBI or their local police department, but that doesn’t guarantee it’ll be followed up.
Jones has quite a history of claiming that her enemies are being investigated, are about to be arrested, or are about to go to prison. For instance, 1.5 years ago she claimed “We just got warrants for some of the main ones [her critics]”. But no one was ever served with one and she never mentioned the subject again.