In Rick Scott's Florida

Rick Scott was a stranger to Floridians. 

Then he spent $73 million and rode n angry voter wave to the Governor's Mansion. 

For Florida, this has been a hostile takeover by the former CEO of the nation's 
largest hospital chain. In three years 
Scott has done more harm than any modern governor, from voting rights to privacy rights, public schools to higher education, environmental protection to health care. 

One more legislative session and a $100 million re-election campaign will not undo the damage.

This is the tin man as governor, a chief executive who shows no heartfelt connection to the state, appreciation for its values 

or compassion for its residents. Scott, moved to Naples just seven years before running for governor, he treats Florida like another faceless corporate acquisition to be 
dismantled and repackaged. 

In Scott's Florida, it is harder for citizens to vote and for the jobless to collect unemployment. It is easier for renters to be evicted and for borrowers to be charged high interest rates on short-term loans. It is harder for patients to win claims against doctors who hurt them and for consumers to get fair treatment from car dealers who deceive them. It is easier for businesses to avoid paying taxes, building roads and repairing environmental damage

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Tallahassee students speak out against John Thrasher

At a meeting of the Florida State University Presidential Search Advisory Committee, 
Tallahassee Dream Defenders 
spoke out against the nomination of 
Senator John Thrasher 
as the new Florida State University (FSU) president.......more>

Thrasher is being given special treatment and students say it is because he is rich and politically powerful. They also say Thrasher is racist and anti-worker.

Rick Scott: Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Florida's Culture Of Corruption Is About To Kill Florida Micro-Breweries

Florida's Culture Of Corruption

The Florida Wholesale Beer Association 

has helped to craft a law that will restrict how micro-brewries sell beer. The Florida State Senate just passed SB 1714, a bill which was crafted and supported by florida wholesale beer association.

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Jimmy Patronis

 Rep. Jimmy Patronis GOP Panama City

 Every year during the legislative session in Tallahassee, he pushes a bill to destroy Florida's environmental regulations, 

Last Year
 Bill to block local governments from protecting thousands of acres of wetlands. Which passed
This Year

 He has  introduced a destructive bill that will prevent local governments from being able to protect their own water supply. 

HB 703 not only prohibits local governments from enforcing wetlands, springs or storm water protections – it takes the decision-making powers out of their hands and gives it to Tallahassee politicians.
 

Frank Matthews, who lobbies on behalf of developers, phosphate miners, boat manufacturers, sugar growers, power companies and a garbage company said 

"I can't say enough good things about him He couldn't be more accommodating. That's the appealing thing to me."

 

Wake Up Panhandle

 

Will Weatherford Loser Of The Week

 It's a shame. A terrible shame

A school voucher bill, which he made a top priority, crumble on Thursday when the Senate sponsor, Galvano, pulled it from consideration......more>
We can't enrich our campaign contributors
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Wake Up Pasco County
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Tallahassee Police Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracker From Courts

It appears that at least one police department in Florida has failed to tell judges about its use of a cell phone tracking device because the department got the device on loan and promised the manufacturer to keep it all under wraps. So the ACLU and ACLU of Florida have teamed up to break through the veil of secrecy surrounding stingray use by law enforcement in the Sunshine State......more>

Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Scott is running Florida like a business, doing business with his friends

 "Before the Legislature convenes in Tallahassee next Tuesday, Coral Gables healthcare tycoon Miguel B. 'Mike' Fernandez will host a Sunday afternoon BBQ with Gov. Rick Scott, his wife Ann, and key members of the governor’s campaign finance team."

Fernandez, chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, is more than Scott’s friend. He’s also a huge contributor to his re-election campaign and the owner or co-owner of fast-growing healthcare companies that under Scott’s administration have been awarded multiple, multi-year state contracts potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars........more

Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture: MacDill Air Force Base

Jonathan Hage sat on Gov. Rick Scott's education transition team.

He and his company, Charter Schools USA,

Have given more than $100,000

to Scott's Let's Get To Work fund and the state Republican Party.

Now it appears it was Scott — or someone very close to him — who suggested

Charter Schools USA run a school at MacDill Air Force Base.

Meeting minutes obtained by the Hillsborough County School District, which opposes the school, describe the origin of a plan that is at the heart of a

battle before the Florida Board of Education.....more>

Rick Scott's New Medicaid Scandal

Write a $1 million check

to Scott's re-election committee and get

contracts worth potentially billions

to serve Medicaid patients in regions across the state. Just ask Miguel Fernandez his new finance chairman for his campaign......more>

 

NRA Writes Florida Gun Law

Florida's Culture Of Corruption

The bill that would expand Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” laws to include waving your gun in a threatening manner or firing warning shots was written by former

NRA president and current gun lobbyist Marion Hammer.

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