Florida Governor Rick Scott has never been one to let facts get in the way of conservative ideology, and recently he’s been …
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Emboldened by Walker’s Recall Win, Florida’s Rick Scott Goes to War on Voter Registration
The Department of Justice had given Florida Governor Rick Scott until Wednesday, June 6, to respond to its demand that the state stop a legally questionable purge of its voter rolls that was designed to identify noncitizens and …
How Florida Is Leading U.S. Politics Back to the Culture Wars
They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing, which helps explain why U.S. politics is riveted once more by social issues. After being locked for three years in a torture chamber of financial disaster, our elected …
The Inscrutable Mr. Scott, America’s Least Popular Governor
Florida Governor Rick Scott was in Canada last week, trumpeting the news that three companies there are bringing operations, and more than 200 jobs, to the Sunshine State. The deals were started by Scott’s predecessor, Charlie …
Florida Loses Its Mind. Again.
If you think that Snooki has relationship problems because of overly strict drinking laws, or that the Bernie Madoff story is a cautionary tale about overly intrusive financial regulation, you’re probably a Florida politician. Because the geniuses who run the state have decided that its economic distress is the result of overly strict …
Rick Scott Goes to War With a Republican Legislature
Tim Padgett, our guy in Florida, chronicles the unrelenting governor’s knack for vexing friends and foes alike in Tallahassee.
Like [Former South Carolina Governor Mark] Sanford, the multimillionaire Scott is a fan of my-way-or-the-highway gestures. Florida’s legislature, like most in the U.S., is hardly a heroic institution. But it was
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Florida’s Rick Scott Sends High-Speed Rail Packing
By Michael Grunwald, TIME Senior Correspondent
It’s one thing to look a gift horse in the mouth. It’s quite another thing to slaughter a gift horse and send its disemboweled corpse back to Washington.
Florida Governor Rick Scott just killed the Obama administration’s marquee high-speed rail project, giving up a whopping $2.4 …
This Is What Running Against The “Ground Zero Mosque” Looks Like
Rick Scott, a Republican candidate for governor in Florida, goes to town on Obama and Park51/Cordoba House in a new TV spot released today. It seems like many Republicans (and certainly Scott) see the president’s position as a boon, and this is a pretty good illustration of how completely nationalized the issue has become since Obama …
