Talk about effrontery.
How does Gov. Rick Scott dare show up around here for anything–let alone those orchestrated drive-bys that self-servingly hype something he’s taking credit for? And that includes the plan to knock $25 off the cost of auto registration fees that he’s recently been hawking. Yeah, the auto tag-fee reduction he wasn’t interested in until the last year of his term. But, no, don’t dare ask about anything not on his script–anything like whether he still supports expanding Medicaid eligibility to more uninsured and poor Floridians.
As if we in Tampa are supposed to have forgotten and merely moved on.
This is, of course, the same duplicitous ideologue who undercut Tampa right out of the blocks by turning down high-speed rail–not even allowing bids–and wouldn’t even accede to Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s request to help implement a gun-free zone around the Republican National Convention perimeter last summer.
He’s Florida’s governor, but he’s no friend of Tampa.