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January 11, 2012
The Charter Schools Agenda in Tallahassee
Last year, the extensive ties between charter school advocates and Florida state politicians proved fruitful. New laws expanded "high-performing" charter schools and created virtual charter schools. Gov. Rick Scott named charter advocates to his education transition team and gave speeches at vari ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Floridians Now Slightly More Likely to Approve of Governor Than Believe in Haunted Houses
For the first time ever, more people approve of Gov. Rick Scott's job performance than believe that houses can be haunted by ghosts.Scott scored his highest approval rating ever in a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning, with 38 percent of folks thinking he's doing an OK job.According to ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Rick Scott's Trip to Israel: Most Readers Didn't Buy the "Trade Mission" Title
Avi HayunGov. Rick Scott givin' the eyes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.According to the results from our highly unscientific reader poll yesterday, nearly 44 percent of our readers thought Gov. Rick Scott's "Israeli trade mission" was more of a political vacation.Nearly 37 perc ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Rick Scott's Trip to Israel: "Trade Mission" or Political Vacation?
flgov.comGov. Rick Scott, with gentlemen who may or may not be job creators.Going through the list of Florida's top 50 trading partners -- compiled by Enterprise Florida -- you may notice Israel sure isn't on the list.Apparently, Florida engages in more trade activity with countries like Guya ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Rick Scott Breaks His Record for Crappiest Approval Rating -- 26 Percent
Gov. Rick Scott is still the least-popular governor in the country, but according to the latest poll released this afternoon, it's the crappiest approval rating he's ever had.Scott's approval is down to 26 percent of Floridians, according to the freshest numbers from Public Policy Polling, easily ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Happy Birthday, Rick Scott!
Gov. Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott is 59 years old today, and to his credit, it's been a successful run for him.He's a Navy veteran, earned a bachelor's degree and a law degree, bought some doughnut shops, eventually oversaw a health-care corporation that pleaded guilty to 14 felonies, bought some mo ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
A Lesson in How to Fudge Charts, Courtesy of Rick Scott's Office
Gov. Rick Scott's office introduced its monthly chart comparing private-sector job gains against government job gains, and it just didn't look right.Remember, there were 6,900 more government jobs in October than in September, while the number of private-sector jobs increased by 2,600. (That one ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Rick Scott Notices Super Committee Failure, Feels the Need to Put Out a Statement
Once again, Gov. Rick Scott feels the need to release a statement about something he doesn't like in federal politics.Three House Republicans, three House Democrats, three Senate Republicans, and three Senate Democrats couldn't agree on how to make $1.2 billion in spending cuts over the next ten ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Rick Scott's Signature on University Diplomas Is Now the Subject of a Petition
I'll be on your wall for the rest of your life!Apparently Gov. Rick Scott's positions on the state's higher-education system isn't impressing all of the students in Florida's public universities.There's now a creative, albeit small, petition with signatures from Gainesville down to Broward of peo ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Obama Says U.S. "Lazy" at Scoring Investments; Rick Scott Thinks He Was Talking About Him
Rick Scott, now responding to blanket statements made by the president.After President Obama made a comment about the United States being "lazy" about attracting foreign investments for the past couple of decades while he was at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit over the weekend, Gov. ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Rick Scott Maintains Crappy Approval Rating but Registers Higher Than Occupy Movement
Gov. Rick Scott maintained his position of having the crappiest approval rating among the country's governors, but Floridians like the governor more than they like the Occupy movement, according to a poll released today.Quinnipiac University -- which announced the highest approval rating of Scott ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Rick Scott Plays Teacher at Public Schools for a Sigh-Inducing "Let's Get to Work" Day
SCIENCE!!!With teachers being one of the largest collectives in the state pissed off with Gov. Rick Scott and his tradition of avoiding public schools like the plague, it seems a bit strange that the governor would play teacher for one of his "Let's Get to Work" days.Regardless, that's what the g ... More >>
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November 7, 2011
Rick Scott "Gets to Work" by Playing "DJ Govvy Gov" (Video)
YouTube"DJ Govvy Gov" and his crew.Gov. Rick Scott may not think Florida needs more anthropologists, but cruise-ship DJs -- that's a different story.The governor held another one of his borrowed "Let's Get to Work" days this Friday at the Port of Miami, and among his duties, the governor's office ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Disappointment: The Rick Scott Story
Gov. Rick Scott's reaction on Wednesday to a former staffer for Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll being charged with illegally recording a conversation: "It is a disappointment." (He said that twice.)His reaction to the part of that audio recording in which Carroll's chief of staff said the governor isn' ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Rick Scott Pleads Ignorance About Felon Voting Rights
I had no idea this was bad policy!Here's a fun way to defend a racist restriction on voting rights: First, claim the new rule is colorblind. Then, when black legislators get angry, plead ignorance. Say you had no idea the rule was draconian compared to policies in most of the country.This is Gov. ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
A Heartwarming Update on Rick Scott's Dirtiest Deeds
Scott can't even get his dirty deeds enforced.Four months ago, we brought you a sobering catalog of Rick Scott's dirtiest deeds as chief executive of this fair state. There were a dozen items on the list -- gems like outsourcing prisons to political donors, slashing funding for public educa ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Rick Scott Busts Out the Flip-Flops Again, Says Pee Tests "Were Never About Money"
Saving taxpayer money? I don't recall.When things don't go Gov. Rick Scott's way, it's time to take off the loafers and put on the flip-flops.First it was the fact he promised 700,000 extra jobs for Florida over seven years, and after months straight of job creation below state projections, h ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Florida's Pee-Test-the-Poor Law Temporarily Blocked by Federal Judge
floppingaces.netIt looks like Gov. Rick Scott never met a constitution he couldn't violate.This time, it was likely the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal judge who temporarily blocked the state's new welfare drug-testing law the governor loves so much.The lawsuit o ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Rick Scott Uses an Executive Order to Complain About Florida Supreme Court Decision
memegenerator.netWhy you mad, though?After the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Rick Scott's executive order to suspend rulemaking in the executive branch agencies was unconstitutional, he decided to issue a new executive order to complain about the decision.The court had ruled 5-2 that it's ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Rick Scott's Newest Jobs Stance: "I Could Argue That I Don't Have to Create Any Jobs"
worstgovernorever.comWell, here's what everyone wanted to hear from Gov. Rick Scott, the chief executive of the state with the fifth-highest unemployment rate of the 50 states: Not only as he already retracted his campaign promise to create 700,000 extra jobs but he now says he doesn't have to cr ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Rick Scott Wants the Government to Choose Your College Major -- No More Anthropologists
Anthropology? All that stuff is already covered in the Bible!Here are Gov. Rick Scott's small-government principles at work again -- he wants the state to pick and choose which university majors are more important and shift funding from liberal arts programs toward the state universities' enginee ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Rick Scott Promised to Create 700,000 Extra Jobs; Now He'll Smile and Pretend He Didn't
One of Gov. Rick Scott's main talking points during his campaign was his "7-7-7" plan, which he said would create 700,000 jobs on top of the projected growth of 1 million Florida jobs by 2017.With the statewide unemployment rate staying at 10.7 percent for the third straight month, the state expe ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Gov. Scott Presents Plan for Everglades Restoration -- Meaning More Engineering
The Everglades is too far gone for anyone to let it take its natural course. South Florida's entire inland economy depends on a water system that stays around the same level all year long, avoids flooding communities (cough, Weston, cough) that are stupidly built in the natural flow of water from ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Rick Scott Had a Higher Approval Rating Than Another Human Being for Seven Days
A couple weeks ago, Gov. Rick Scott's approval rating reached an all-time high of 37 percent.Since his approval rating has hovered between hemorrhoids and a ham sandwich for the past few months, it's been hard to actually compare his ratings to another human being.However, we found that not only did ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Rick Scott and Private Prisons Engaging in "Pay to Play" Politics, Teamsters Complaint Alleges
Florida politicians received nearly $1 million in campaign contributions from two private prison corporations last election cycle -- GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America -- and an ethics complaint filed by the Teamsters union yesterday claims $30,000 of those contributions that went t ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Rick Scott Hits 12 Minutes Worth of Softballs on MSNBC, Avoids "Ponzi Scheme" Question
msnbc.comRick Scott, happy to be here.When the subject of Rick Scott comes up on the typically left-leaning MSNBC network, it's typically to be berated on Rachel Maddow's nighttime show.Invite him onto Morning Joe with former Republican Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough, however, and the govern ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Rick Scott Says Obama "Used My Slogan," Which Is False on Two Accounts
Sometimes, Gov. Rick Scott will say something that's so untrue, it's actually false two different ways.Such was the case on Friday, when he gave his reaction to President Obama's jobs speech to Bay News 9."You know, one of the best things about the speech, he used my slogan 'Let's Get to Work' in ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Rick Scott Wins "Worst Governor Ever"
worstgovernorever.comFlorida governor and two-time election winner Rick Scott.Gov. Rick Scott has officially been crowned Worst Governor Ever.The Transport Workers Union of America found a way for people to vote for Scott again, as he beat out Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Wis ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Franklin Sands: Rick Scott "Can't Bring Himself to Speak the Truth"
Weston-based State Rep. Franklin Sands seems to have finally had enough of Gov. Rick Scott, today issuing a nice rant stemming from a letter the governor wrote to him a little over a month ago.The governor telling lies every so often apparently doesn't sit well with Sands, who dedicates a good po ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Rick Perry and Rick Scott (Fake Ones) Skype Chat Over Battle for "Worst Governor Ever"
Friends till the end.In the battle for "Worst Governor Ever" -- hosted online by the Transport Workers Union of America -- Gov. Rick Scott still maintains his lead, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry has surged in the election, right behind Florida's own.On August 11, the union's new media head, Jeff Rae, ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Rick Scott's Emails Magically Go Missing
Yeah, you can find those emails next to the Columbia/HCA memos. LOL!Gov. Rick Scott loves to tout how open his office is to records requests -- never mind the outrageous price tag -- but it gets a little tough to acquire public records when they magically disappear.That's what happened to the ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Rick Scott's Office Asks the Media to Engage in Photo Censorship -- No Thanks
This is not the Rick Scott-approved photo.Gov. Rick Scott's office emailed members of the media yesterday, asking that we all use one specific picture of the governor."Please forward the attached photo of Governor Rick Scott to the appropriate people in your organization who handle graphics, layo ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Facebook Takes on Rick Scott's Florida Keys Fishing Vacation
Rick Scott's FacebookReportedly a large gag grouper, which the governor is said to have released after posing with it.Gov. Rick Scott decided to promote Florida tourism yesterday -- after promoting the woodlands of Montana and the ritzy mountain getaways in Colorado -- with a fishing trip to the ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
WLRN's Phil Latzman Grills Rick Scott on Public Radio Funding
Now that he's finally decided to take the plunge into media interviews, one thing has become apparent: Rick Scott mumbles a lot. His Everyman tempo elides common syllables. Its like he's nervous or not fully engaged with the nice, folksy things he says.But when he stopped by the WLRN Miami Herald ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Rick Scott Maintains Slim Lead in Race for "Worst Governor Ever"
People are voting for me! Wait, what?Since taking the lead in the race to elect the "Worst Governor Ever" on Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott is still ahead by a slim margin.Jeff Rae, who's in charge of new media over at the Transport Workers Union of America, tells the Pulp that as of yesterday, Scott ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Rick Scott Takes the Lead in Race for "Worst Governor Ever"
Rick Scott, currently the most popular candidate in at least one election.Gov. Rick Scott's numbers are going up -- at least in the race to elect the "Worst Governor Ever."Scott was in fourth place around 11 p.m. Monday but is currently in first place as of around 8 a.m. today.The Florida governo ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Governor Rick Scott Attempts to Show Inner Charlie Crist
By Kate BradshawScott walks into a greasy spoon and orders an ice water.Rick Scott walks into The Floridian diner on Las Olas at about noon today for a photo op lunch with South Florida lawmakers. There's an odd funk in the air, sort of a mix between french fries and kitty litter.He walks halfway ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Rick Scott on the Ballot for "Worst Governor Ever"
Here's a new election where people may actually want to vote for Gov. Rick Scott again -- the race for the "Worst Governor Ever."As part of an online campaign by the Transport Workers Union of America, Scott joins Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, New Jersey Gov. Chris C ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
A Thank-You Note From Rick Scott
No, thank you, Mr. Governor.When one arm of the government fails to speak to another, bizarre things occur. For example, a reporter might write a lengthy critique of Florida's governor and his legislative accomplishments, including a cover illustration of him as the evil emperor from Star Wars. F ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Rick Scott Calls on the Lord for Jobs, Identifies With Polygamist Monarch (Video)
Gov. Rick Scott stayed at home during Texas Gov. Rick Perry's prayer rally on Friday, but he did make a video appearance before the 30,000-person crowd at Houston's Reliant Stadium.Scott says in his video that since being inaugurated, his prayer has been the same as King Solomon -- you know, ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
Rick Scott Lets His Pals Run a Monopoly on State Employees' Health Care Coverage
Illustration by Miche RattoEarlier in the week, the state Department of Management Services announced that it was consolidating the number of HMOs offered to state employees to one per county.In a move the DMS says was "following the governor's direction," the department predicts the change will ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Rick Scott Throws an Anti-Abortion Party at the Governor's Mansion
Gov. Rick Scott: Party boy.Add this to the list of awkward party themes: anti-abortion bills.Apparently it wasn't a costume party, but Gov. Rick Scott held a celebration at the governor's mansion this weekend in honor of the four anti-abortion bills he signed into law.Partygoers celebrated the ne ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Rick Scott Thinks It's "Inappropriate" for Journalists to Do Their Jobs
Family Man?Gov. Rick Scott, whose administration has continually drawn the ire of journalists for its culture of secrecy and unwillingness to process public records, said it's "inappropriate" for reporters to report.During a 60-minute question-and-answer session at the capital Monday morning, som ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Rick Scott Removed From Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame List; Confederate Soldiers Remain
fourfour.typepad.comI don't think that's what he meant.Florida officials have been working on a list of people to nominate for the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame -- a list that originally included Gov. Rick Scott and six Confederate soldiers as well as 15 others.The list of all-white, military ve ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Rick Scott May Have Just Begun Reading Newspapers -- Or Watching TV
Gov. Rick Scott may have just instituted a personal policy that's going to be popular with just about everyone -- staying informed about the world around him.For the first time, the governor's public schedule includes a "review of Florida and national news," which is coming from the guy who said ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Rick Scott Gets Told on CNN -- Again (Video)
Gov. Rick Scott took his armchair president skills to CNN this morning as part of his belief that he has a say in federal government, and the CNN anchors made him look like a fool -- again.In early June, the governor went on CNN to defend his advocacy of drug-testing welfare recipients. He was as ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Maker of Drug Used in Florida Lethal Injections Asked Rick Scott Not to Kill People With It
Florida Department of CorrectionsManuel Valle, the subject of the current lethal-injection controversy in Florida.Florida hasn't tested out the new lethal-injection drug it has planned to start using, but letters to Gov. Rick Scott from the drugmaker's president -- sent before Scott signed off on ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Rick Scott Plays Armchair President on Debt-Ceiling Drama
Gov. Rick Scott is a dreamerGov. Rick Scott seems to like the idea of being president of the United States -- he's hinted that he'd make a good president because of the "tough choices" he's made as governor, and now he's playing armchair president from the governor's mansion.Sunshine State News c ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Rick Scott and Cabinet's Decision for Ex-Con Voting Hurdles Seems Bogus, Study Implies
prwatch.orgAs much as Gov. Rick Scott likes to make the rules, it looks like his Cabinet's idea for making new hurdles for ex-convicts to have their civil rights restored was pulled out of their collective asses, according to implications from a recent study by the Florida Parole Commission.The s ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Rick Scott Approval Rating Analysis: "Slightly More Popular Than a Hemorrhoid"
Hemorrhoids: Almost as popular as Gov. Rick Scott.In case you haven't noticed, Gov. Rick Scott's approval rating is getting so low that people are running out of politicians to compare him to.A few weeks ago, Public Policy Polling surveyed Florida voters about hypothetical gubernatorial matchups ... More >>
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