What say all you Rick Scott fans out there? (I'm not from FLA and don't know anything about him).
Rick Scott is okay on some things, but he’s very much on the defensive because he’s always being portrayed by the press as the evil white guy who hates schoolteachers and blacks. In reality, he has put money into the school system, although he has demanded accountability from the teachers, which is apparently a no-no. A lot of the truly spectacular corrupton (massive cheating on state evaluation tests) was in black run schools or school districts, and his requirement that these people be prosecuted and dismissed was of course called “racist.”
He also appointed several black aides, and unfortunately, a few of them were not very good picks, to such an extent that he had to dismiss them or obtain their resignations (thus causing more screams of “racist”).
So,he’s very much on the defensive and I think he felt that going ahead with this show trial would prove his bona fides to Florida’s dysfunctional but noisy black power bloc. And course, like all GOPers, he has gone out of his way to be “bi partisan” and pick Dems for posts, such as judgeships, just as Bush did.
I wish our GOP elected officials would get over two things: feeling guilty about who they are, and believing that “ bipartisanship” works.
So this whole thing was about Scott’s desire to ingratiate himself with blacks and get them to stop calling him “racist,” which of course will never happen.
When Scott ran for Governor in 2010, he barely beat Alex Sink—I think his margin of victory was less than 1%.
The Bears family enthusiastically supported his candidacy.
Since his election, he has “grown” in office; backing-off on a number of key issues that characterized his campaign. The Zimmerman matter was the last straw—An innocent man put on trial to placate the race hustlers and perpetual victim class. The Law should bow to no man and to no threat.
If Scott decides to run for a second term, we will not support him.
PS—Angela “The Cow” Corey is our State Attorney. We’re presently looking into how to get her recalled.