....the worst governor in Florida's history?



Is Rick Scott the worst governor in the history of Florida?

It’s a question lots of people ask, and the verdict’s still out. The
state has had many lousy governors since 1845, when the job first opened.

Scott is certainly a prime contender for worst ever, and each new
screwing of Floridians pushes him closer to the title. The latest
outrage reveals the fair-weather fiscal conservative reaching deep into
public pockets to bail himself out of legal trouble.

During the last few months, taxpayers have been soaked for more than $1
million to settle lawsuits in which Scott and his dim-bulb Cabinet
flagrantly violated Florida’s open-records and open-meetings laws.

No other sitting governor has used tax money to end public-records cases
that were caused by his own secretive misbehavior. Scott couldn’t care less.

He paid off in one case to avoid producing thousands of emails from
private Google accounts on which he and staff members conducted public
business, against the law. Scott said such accounts didn’t exist, which
was a flat-out lie.

The stealth emails came to light in a lawsuit by Tallahassee attorney
Steven R. Andrews, who was trying to buy an office building on property
that Scott wanted to use as a “legacy park� around the governor’s mansion.

Once Andrews learned about Scott’s undisclosed emails, he pushed hard to
obtain them. After a court recently ruled that Google had to turn over
all relevant correspondence in the governor’s accounts, Scott quickly
decided to settle the case rather than reveal the contents of his messages.

He agreed to pay Andrews $700,000 to end the case.

More accurately, he agreed to pay $700,000 with state funds. The
governor personally won’t be writing the check, even though he’s the one
who broke the law.

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Scott wants to be remembered for creating jobs, and he will be.

Lots of jobs for lawyers.

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