Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:43:15 PM
Rick Scott Refuses Federal Money, Files Lawsuit Demanding Federal Money
Written by JM Ashby
1 year ago
It wasn’t very long ago that Florida Governor Rick Scott changed his mind for a
second time and decided that expanding Medicaid under Obamacare is a bad idea.
http://www.bobcesca.com/rick-scott-refuses-federal-money-files-lawsuit-demanding-federal-money/
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5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Rick Scott is really this pathetic
Monday, Apr 11, 2016 09:14 PM +1000
The Florida governor releases an attack ad on a private citizen, while Bill O'Reilly whitesplains Donald Trump
Janet Allon, AlterNet
Rick Scott (Credit: AP/Chris O'meara)
Welcome to the right-wing gaff-o-sphere. Here are some low-points this week.
1. Some politicians make attack ads against political opponents. Florida Gov. Rick Scott makes them against, uh, constituents who dare criticize him.
In a video that quickly went viral, a woman named Cara Jennings confronted Scott in a Gainesville, Florida Starbucks for signing a bill cutting funding to Planned Parenthood and other providers of women’s healthcare. In response, he dissembled and denied and then lectured her on where she should get healthcare. The part that went viral came next.
“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Jennings yelled, entirely accurately. “You’re an a**shole. You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”
Scott protested that he had “created a million jobs,” a huge and round number that appears to be based on air. Jennings looked around and asked other customers if any of them had one of these great jobs. No one answered.
Jennings again suggested that shame should be his mantle, and Scott left Starbucks latte-less.
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/11/5_worst_right_wing_moments_of_the_week_rick_scott_is_really_this_pathetic_partner/
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Gov. Rick Scott is wrong
By Editorial Board May 14, 2015
IT HAS always been irrational for states to decline to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act. The 21 states that have refused to take advantage of this element of Obamacare have denied access to coverage for 4 million people, left billions in federal health-care dollars on the table and thrown the financial fate of their hospitals into doubt.
But Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is taking irrational to new lengths. Mr. Scott ordered state agencies Thursday to prepare for a possible shutdown on July 1 because Tallahassee can’t agree on Medicaid expansion, which the state Senate favors and he and the Florida House oppose. At the same time, Mr. Scott is doing battle with the Obama administration, which has warned that the future of a federally funded program providing charity care to indigent Floridians is linked to whether the state expands its Medicaid system. Mr. Scott announced he will sue the Health and Human Services Department, arguing that the feds are coercing the state “further into Obamacare.”
The governor is right about that. But the administration is right to do so. Mr. Scott is wrong on just about everything else connected with this fight, and both the Obama administration and the Florida lawmakers who favor Medicaid expansion have reason to pressure him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gov-scott-is-wrong/2015/05/14/4f8b0f14-e7a7-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b_story.html?utm_term=.c1360605fa7e
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott cries out for Zika assistance, but his fellow Republicans aren't listening
By Mark Sumner
Friday Jun 03, 2016 · 3:57 AM AUSEDT
[...]
The Senate passed a Zika funding bill with $1.1B in funds. However, though the House passed a bill that is supposedly a Zika bill, it’s actually a re-labelled bill that removes restrictions on pesticides—House Republicans are using Zika in an attempt to weaken the EPA. The result is that there are two bills with nothing in common, making the task of any conference committee impossible.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/06/02/1533620/-Florida-Gov-Rick-Scott-cries-out-for-Zika-assistance-but-his-fellow-Republicans-aren-t-listening
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Trump says Rick Scott seems to have Zika 'under control'
Alex Leary, Times Washington Bureau Chief
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 9:24pm
Donald Trump does not appear to have a strong grasp of the Zika virus threat in Florida, telling a CBS affiliate that Gov. Rick Scott "probably already" has it under control.
CBS12 in West Palm Beach asked Trump how he would be fighting it if he were in the Oval Office now.
“First of all, you have a great governor who’s doing a fantastic job, Rick Scott, on the Zika. And it’s a problem, it’s a big problem," Trump said. "But I watch and I see and I see what they’re doing with the spraying and everything else. And I think he’s doing a fantastic job. And he’s lettering everyone know exactly what the problem is and how to get rid of it. He’s going to have it under control. He probably already does."
Asked if an emergency session of Congress is necessary, something Florida Republicans and Democrats have called for, Trump said: "I would say that it’s up to Rick Scott. It depends on what he’s looking to do because really seems to have it under control in Florida.”
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/trump-says-rick-scott-seems-to-have-zika-under-control-in-florida/2288065
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Florida declares new area of Zika transmission in Miami
An airplane carrying a banner asking people to use insect repellent to avoid the Zika virus, flies over Miami,
Florida, U.S., September 13, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
By Julie Steenhuysen
Thu Oct 13, 2016 | 5:06pm EDT
Florida officials on Thursday announced a new area of Zika transmission in the Miami region and have called on the federal government for funding to help fight the outbreak.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said state health officials have confirmed that local transmission of the mosquito-borne Zika virus is occurring
in a new small area in Miami-Dade County, where the state believes two women and three men have been infected by the virus.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-florida-idUSKCN12D2X6
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Is anyone surprised Hillary is sitting at 72.4% in Florida?
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Written by JM Ashby
1 year ago
It wasn’t very long ago that Florida Governor Rick Scott changed his mind for a
second time and decided that expanding Medicaid under Obamacare is a bad idea.
http://www.bobcesca.com/rick-scott-refuses-federal-money-files-lawsuit-demanding-federal-money/
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5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Rick Scott is really this pathetic
Monday, Apr 11, 2016 09:14 PM +1000
The Florida governor releases an attack ad on a private citizen, while Bill O'Reilly whitesplains Donald Trump
Janet Allon, AlterNet
Rick Scott (Credit: AP/Chris O'meara)
Welcome to the right-wing gaff-o-sphere. Here are some low-points this week.
1. Some politicians make attack ads against political opponents. Florida Gov. Rick Scott makes them against, uh, constituents who dare criticize him.
In a video that quickly went viral, a woman named Cara Jennings confronted Scott in a Gainesville, Florida Starbucks for signing a bill cutting funding to Planned Parenthood and other providers of women’s healthcare. In response, he dissembled and denied and then lectured her on where she should get healthcare. The part that went viral came next.
“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Jennings yelled, entirely accurately. “You’re an a**shole. You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”
Scott protested that he had “created a million jobs,” a huge and round number that appears to be based on air. Jennings looked around and asked other customers if any of them had one of these great jobs. No one answered.
Jennings again suggested that shame should be his mantle, and Scott left Starbucks latte-less.
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/11/5_worst_right_wing_moments_of_the_week_rick_scott_is_really_this_pathetic_partner/
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Gov. Rick Scott is wrong
By Editorial Board May 14, 2015
IT HAS always been irrational for states to decline to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act. The 21 states that have refused to take advantage of this element of Obamacare have denied access to coverage for 4 million people, left billions in federal health-care dollars on the table and thrown the financial fate of their hospitals into doubt.
But Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is taking irrational to new lengths. Mr. Scott ordered state agencies Thursday to prepare for a possible shutdown on July 1 because Tallahassee can’t agree on Medicaid expansion, which the state Senate favors and he and the Florida House oppose. At the same time, Mr. Scott is doing battle with the Obama administration, which has warned that the future of a federally funded program providing charity care to indigent Floridians is linked to whether the state expands its Medicaid system. Mr. Scott announced he will sue the Health and Human Services Department, arguing that the feds are coercing the state “further into Obamacare.”
The governor is right about that. But the administration is right to do so. Mr. Scott is wrong on just about everything else connected with this fight, and both the Obama administration and the Florida lawmakers who favor Medicaid expansion have reason to pressure him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gov-scott-is-wrong/2015/05/14/4f8b0f14-e7a7-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b_story.html?utm_term=.c1360605fa7e
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott cries out for Zika assistance, but his fellow Republicans aren't listening
By Mark Sumner
Friday Jun 03, 2016 · 3:57 AM AUSEDT
[...]
The Senate passed a Zika funding bill with $1.1B in funds. However, though the House passed a bill that is supposedly a Zika bill, it’s actually a re-labelled bill that removes restrictions on pesticides—House Republicans are using Zika in an attempt to weaken the EPA. The result is that there are two bills with nothing in common, making the task of any conference committee impossible.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/06/02/1533620/-Florida-Gov-Rick-Scott-cries-out-for-Zika-assistance-but-his-fellow-Republicans-aren-t-listening
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Trump says Rick Scott seems to have Zika 'under control'
Alex Leary, Times Washington Bureau Chief
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 9:24pm
Donald Trump does not appear to have a strong grasp of the Zika virus threat in Florida, telling a CBS affiliate that Gov. Rick Scott "probably already" has it under control.
CBS12 in West Palm Beach asked Trump how he would be fighting it if he were in the Oval Office now.
“First of all, you have a great governor who’s doing a fantastic job, Rick Scott, on the Zika. And it’s a problem, it’s a big problem," Trump said. "But I watch and I see and I see what they’re doing with the spraying and everything else. And I think he’s doing a fantastic job. And he’s lettering everyone know exactly what the problem is and how to get rid of it. He’s going to have it under control. He probably already does."
Asked if an emergency session of Congress is necessary, something Florida Republicans and Democrats have called for, Trump said: "I would say that it’s up to Rick Scott. It depends on what he’s looking to do because really seems to have it under control in Florida.”
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/trump-says-rick-scott-seems-to-have-zika-under-control-in-florida/2288065
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Florida declares new area of Zika transmission in Miami
An airplane carrying a banner asking people to use insect repellent to avoid the Zika virus, flies over Miami,
Florida, U.S., September 13, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
By Julie Steenhuysen
Thu Oct 13, 2016 | 5:06pm EDT
Florida officials on Thursday announced a new area of Zika transmission in the Miami region and have called on the federal government for funding to help fight the outbreak.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said state health officials have confirmed that local transmission of the mosquito-borne Zika virus is occurring
in a new small area in Miami-Dade County, where the state believes two women and three men have been infected by the virus.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-florida-idUSKCN12D2X6
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Is anyone surprised Hillary is sitting at 72.4% in Florida?
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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