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Rick Scott to RNC: No 'monkey business'
POLITICO ^ | April 21, 2016 | Mike Caputo

Posted on 04/21/2016 12:11:08 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Florida Gov. Rick Scott passed up a chance to urge Republican National Committee members to support his preferred presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

But he warned them: no “monkey-business.”

“We’ve got to be transparent,” Scott told a packed room of RNC officials Thursday at their spring meeting in Hollywood, Fla., implicitly telling them not to cut back-room deals that would undercut the frontrunner or, in Trump’s terms, “rig” the process.

“We can’t take a chance that we’re accused of any monkey-business. Tricks. Stunts. Anything,” Scott said in his brief remarks during which he received polite applause.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; rickscott; rnc; trump

1 posted on 04/21/2016 12:11:08 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

As one official at state level said within my earshot if GOPee messes with Trump the RNC will no longer exist.


2 posted on 04/21/2016 12:13:33 PM PDT by hoosiermama (W1240 (a couple extra to boot) Under budget. Ahead of schedule! Go TRUMP)
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To: Trump20162020

After the voting ends on June 7, pretty much anything that happens can be called shananigans.


3 posted on 04/21/2016 12:17:46 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: hoosiermama

Which pretty much guarantees that they will.


4 posted on 04/21/2016 12:27:36 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: Trump20162020

Oh, well, 160 years is a good run for a political party. Time to build a new one.


5 posted on 04/21/2016 12:37:38 PM PDT by Cyberman
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To: Trump20162020

That’s RACIST!!


6 posted on 04/21/2016 12:38:14 PM PDT by apillar
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To: Trump20162020
ahhh, the good old days!


7 posted on 04/21/2016 12:42:08 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
They look truly happy in that picture.

or maybe it was the liquor

8 posted on 04/21/2016 1:02:59 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: Trump20162020

If they can keep their spoilers going to deny Trump 1237 before the convention, count on some monkey business.

The RNC/GOP still owes the Cheap Labor Express an amnesty candidate


9 posted on 04/21/2016 2:29:51 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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