That's right, folks: Scott is gonna straighten up the state, get us sane and solvent, and he's gonna do it with your ideas. We're certainly gonna send some. Chief among them are:
4. Get a Refund From Bill McCollum
It's well and good
that Scott beat McCollum like a gong, but it's not quite enough. It'll
be a long time before Floridians forget that McCollum, in a fit of religious idealism and fiscal stupidity, paid discredited antigay activist George Alan Rekers
$160,000 to testify on two occasions against gay adoptions in Florida.
He did this over the objections of the Department of Children and
Families as well as those of his own legal team. McCollum was a
maverick that way. We want our money back.
3. Split Florida Into Two States
It was a good idea when
the City Commission of North Lauderdale proposed it 2008, and it's a
better idea now. North and South Florida don't agree on anything.
Culture (redneck/NYawk), spending priorities (war/welfare), ethnicity
(cracker/Latino), religion (protestant/Jewish-Catholic), social policies
(lynchings/gay marriage), economic philosophies
(anarcho-libertarian/moderate), positions vis a vis racial equality
(kill the darkies/we are the darkies).
We sure as hell don't vote for
the same people. By partitioning the state, Scott could improve his own
victory margin in the next campaign and leave us to be governed by
somebody without, you know, a record of swindling Medicaid.
2. Close Pill Mills and Legalize Weed
If Rick Scott means
to help Florida's industries, as he so plainly intends, that can only be
good news for SoFla's infamous pill mills, which together constitute the headwaters
of a deadly river of narcotics, flowing north to Ohio, Kentucky, and
West Virginia. The prescription-drug trade is a billion-dollar industry
in Florida, and if the state does the right thing and kills it, it'll
seriously hurt us. Unless we turn the pill mills into marijuana
dispensaries.
1. For Goodness Sake, Stop Changing the Definitions of Words
If
Rick Scott is serious about turning Florida into a "model state," he
would do well to take a few moments to reflect upon the language usage
at ScottTransition.com. Seldom will you ever see a website so in love
with the word accountability. Scott means for his governorship to be
accountable, accountable, accountable. Well, the gubernatorial campaign
may be over, but we've got long memories. We know what accountability
looks like, and it ain't Rick Scott.
