Rick Scott: ‘let’s get to work…! now take this awesome gift card’
You really can’t make this stuff up. Rick Scott, the guy who slinked out of his former hospital corporation, Columbia/HCA, with a $300 million golden parachute before the company settled with the federal government to the tune of $1.7 billion over Medicare fraud… whose new company, Solantic, also is being looked at for Medicare fraud, who spent $73 million of his ill-gotten gains to make himself governor of Florida, in part by running against a Republican establishment that among other things, handed out American Express cards paid for by donors, which Florida politicians like Marco Rubio abused like they were on an episode of “Pimp My Life,” paid some of his campaign workers not with cash or checks … but with gift cards … American Express … gift cards. Wow. Read more
Alex Sink: meet the mirror. You lost because of YOU, and your state party (**UPDATED**)
I wasn’t going to do any more retrospectives on the 2010 election, because I’m already on to the business of how we progressives move forward. But if there’s one thing I hate in politics, it’s people pointing the finger at everyone other than themselves when they lose. President Obama is catching hell from some of his base for capitulating to a barrage of reporters’ demanding that he take responsibility for the beating Democrats took on November 2nd, but at least he manned up. Alex Sink on the other hand, thinks she lost the Florida governor’s race because of … Barack Obama. Madame, please. Read more
With Gollum for a governor, what will Florida Democrats do now?
I woke up (late) this morning to find that indeed I wasn’t dreaming, or delirious from 3 days of whirlwind media excitement at the 30 Rock mothership, analyzing the Democrats’ national doom… and that in fact Florida, the state I was duty bound to come back to last night, had indeed elected Gollum to be its governor [sorry Skeletor, Freddy Krueger and the Smoke Monster; for now, you've been replaced in the TRR snarkofile...] Who would have thought the tricky bastard would get so far in life? Read more
Two of a kind? Altered docs let Rick Scott’s running-mate qualify for city program
Rick Scott and his LG pick: State Rep. Jennifer Carroll.
They say birds of a feather … and with a hat tip to TPM, word from the Florida Times-Union that like her running mate Rick Scott, Jennifer Carroll might have a little fraud in her portfolio…
Altered documents filed with Jacksonville City Hall in 2006 helped Jennifer Carroll’s consulting firm appear eligible for a city program that annually gives out tens of millions of dollars in city contracts to small businesses, a Florida Times-Union investigation has found. Read more
Governor Depo? Scott would appoint agency head investigating his latest Medicare fraud case
Is Rick Scott spending $55 million to avoid new Medicare fraud charges?
With new allegations of Medicare/TriCare fraud hanging over his head, is it time to ask whether Rick Scott is really running for governor of Florida as a way to protect himself from prosecution? Read more
Qpoll has Sink up 4, but race volatile
Florida gubernatorial candidates: Rick Scott, Alex Sink
I’ll bet the Quinnipiac people wish they released their polls on time after getting themselves stuck with a sentence like this:
“Although the governor’s race remains very close, CFO Alex Sink has had a good week,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. …
Attention Rick Scott: cheating’s really not a good issue for you
The St. Pete Times offers some much needed context to the now officially “overblown even more than Juan Williams is milking his firing” textgate dust-up. Short version: when you’re the king of Medicare fraud, you really aren’t the right person to be accusing other people of dishonesty… Read more
Obama, Meek, Sink make joint appeal to black FL voters
Kendrick Meek and Alex Sink were joined by President Barack Obama on a conference call with African-American clergy, political and community leaders Wednesday, the first time Sink, Kendrick Meek and President Barack Obama have appeared together since August (though at that event at Miami’s Fontainbleau Hotel, Sink didn’t stick around for a photo op with the prez.) Read more
Kendrick Meek makes his case (and Alex Sink’s) on Curry’s radio show
Miami Congressman Kendrick Meek called in to the Tuesday Talk radio show on WMBM, the station owned by Bishop Victor Curry, the NAACP Miami Dade president who last week blasted Alex Sink for skipping the organization’s pre-election political forum. But while Sink’s apology was expected to be the big event on the program, it was Meek who stole the show. Read more
Come on, people! Alex Sink fires aide over Textgate
How is it that Republicans can take a barely literate woman from Alaska, doll her up and slap a $150,000 wardrobe on her, put her on Fox News and get the entire media to believe that not only is her jumbled syntax not a sign of dim-bulbyness, but to actually see her as a credible future president, but Democrats can’t get a textbook female candidate through a debate with a guy who, but for the grace of rich man’s justice, would be a felon, without screwing up? Read more
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