By now we’re familiar with Gov. Rick Scott’s “workday” gimmicks. They’re more than a political cliché. They’re all part of a blatantly contrived plan to overhaul his image as the state’s most despised politician and the country’s most unpopular governor. Well, a Tampa donut shop and a Panama City Beach restaurant are one thing. PR is PR. The publicity can be symbiotic.
But what was with his recent “workday” at the Port of Miami? Before boarding Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Imagination to take a spin as a DJ, he acted as a greeter for passengers heading out for a three-day cruise to the Bahamas.
Rick Scott as a greeter? The most reviled man in Florida not named Oba Chandler or Dontae Morris is working as your greeter? And you’re in the leisure and image business? Does Carnival have media-relations people on loan from Tiger Woods and Herman Cain?
What’s next? A workday at a Solantic clinic?