Posted on 06/18/2010 5:11:58 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
I have paid little attention to the race for Governor in Florida. But that race is getting more and more interesting. Friends of mine have been pushing me to weigh in on one side, then the other. Lately, however, a multitude of people have asked me to weigh in on this business with Rick Scott. He guest posted once here about Obamacare and I’ve defended him once from White House attacks. It did strike me as a bit odd to see him jump into the Florida Governor’s race. I got curious and started digging in.
The field had been cleared for Bill McCollum, the well liked Attorney General and Clinton Impeachment Trial manager. He had not rocked the boat. He really hadn’t done much of anything except do what Attorneys General do when they want to run for higher office.
But on the way to cash in on electoral victory, an upstart named Rick Scott jumped into the race. Scott has his own battle scars from the Clinton years. The then head of Columbia/HCA, Scott coordinated private health providers to fight Clintoncare and he won. More than a decade later, having left Columbia/HCA under questionable circumstances, Scott was charging again against Obamacare.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
My conclusion is pretty straight forward: the stuff on Scott looks bad, but isn’t as bad as McCollum would like and McCollum has problems of his own. I think a lot of the dirt on Rick Scott is really overblown. Here’s the gist of the major attack, though there are others: After Clintoncare failed, the Clinton Administration started getting extremely specific about the interpretation and application of over 100,000 pages of Medicare regulations.
Then the Clintons started picking off, one by one, every health care provider that fought them. Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA received one of the, if not the, largest fines in history for fraud. You can get a flavor for what was happening here.
Rick Scott is a businessman, NOT a politician, which is exactly what we need here in FL. I’ve stood behind McCollum in the past because the alternatives were unsavory. Rick Scott is a Conservative and an excellent candidate. He has my vote, and I would hope that other Floridians follow suit.
This was really helpful. I’m in FLA and will probably back Scott.
McCollum has not given us ONE reason to vote for him...he thought the nomination would be handed to him...yet he could still win if he started to campaign on solid conservtaives principals..tel us what he will do when he’s elected..to rein in government and spending...
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I believe that I will vote for Scott in the primary. If he survives, I will vote for him in the General.
If Scott loses, I will probably sit it out.
In 2006, I voted for Gallagher in the Primary. More Republicans said that, via their votes, that they wanted Crist. I voted for Crist in the General and have regretted it ever since. I will not make that mistake again.
I’m disgusted with myself for voting Crist. He’s really let me down.
“I’m disgusted with myself for voting Crist. He’s really let me down.”
I agree with you. After Crist’s disappointing “leadership” this past year, I was planning on voting for McCollum for Governor. Now, since Scott has appeared on the scene, and after reading about his background, I’ve decided he will get my vote.
What happened to Gallagher? He sort of evaporated after that disappointing showing.
I suppose that he decided not to stay around where he wasn’t wanted.
I don’t/didn’t know much about him.
I just thought he would be better than Crist. Morepeople thought differently.
That’s kind of the point of this quick history lesson here.
If the government changes the rules on you or comes jihading after you then yes, of course, they can trump up whatever charge against you they want and even get you convicted of it.
Did you read the article on red state?
If so, which part did you object to?
Just so it’s said, I’m not under the impression that this one lone article clears scott of all of it.
But it definately changes things. from the article:
================The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the regulations the Clintons put in place were so arcane and complex that reasonable people could disagree on their application and, consequently, dismissed cases filed against employees.===============
Now seriously, you can’t see how all of this happened?
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