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Rick Scott has spent more than $50 million ($50.2 million) on his primary campaign for governor, according to campaign finance data on record with the Florida Division of Elections.
The former hospital executive, whose company paid the largest set of Medicare fines and penalties in history -- $1.7 billion -- also declared his net worth to be $219 million ($218,589,004 to be exact), according to his financial disclosure form.
Scott loaned his campaign $38.9 million. (The campaign has spent $37.7 million through Aug. 19th.)
But in Florida, there is also something called Electioneering and Communications Organizations (ECOs) akin nationally to Political Action Committees (PACs on a national level). Scott has publicly acknowledged an affiliation with the ECO Let's Get to Work. Scott has given $11.3 million to Let's Get to Work through F. Annette Scott Revocable Trust. F. Annette Scott is his wife.
That means Scott has spent almost a quarter of what he claims to be his total net worth on this primary.
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What an easy job for over $500/hr !!!!!------To insult the President of The United States of America 24/7.
Limba, Baeck, Hannady, Ingrem, luvin , just to mention a few are Republicans hired by Republicans at over
$500/hr for a job that any person picked from the street can do (To abuse the president of The United States of America)
Qualifications for their jobs include:
These people get paid a lot of money just to abuse/insult the president of the USA.
They wake up every morning knowing that their daily job is to abuse/insult the President the whole day and then go back home thinking they have worked hard to build the Nation and then wait for their mega pay come end of the month.
It is the first time in the history of this country that some people would be waking up every morning to
go to work and that work they are hired to do is to abuse/insult the President.
These people have the courage of calling the President of The United States of America an Idiot!!!!
Only a mad person can call the president of USA an Idiot.
This is a good example of the people that are running for office and vying for the vote of the American people.
And they have the nerve to call everyday citizens un-American!
I now think your an idiot. Obama is not god just to let ya know.
Then I guess I'm a mad person - He's an idiot not to mention,
His tongue twists at 360 deg, flips, flops, rolls into the back of his head
Lies through his teeth
Yells and spews his socialist puke
"It's all Bush's fault. It's all Bush's fault."
"It's all Bush's fault. It's all Bush's fault."
Obviously, you don't have a clue.
keep sluggin' back on that kool-aide Sam 499819...... the president doesnt need anyone to lie about him, he does more than his fair share of fibbing his a** off without the help of anyone. Needless to say, had your Nobama got his way, we'd be digging holes to live and die in by now. Even his own party he has to bribe and kanive to get support. Look at the HCR bill, how many senators, and states democratic, (none republican), did he have to give exsemptions, and offers to just to get that bill passed? The news was loased with them, and you want to resort to pointing fingers? well i guess if your a democrat, force of habit by now?
This guy is a scumbag reichwinger.
Why would someone want to be governor so much?
Why would these two bloated women in California (Whitman and Fiorina) be willing to spend up to $150,000,000.00 EACH -- THREE TIMES what this guy spent. Again, just to get a place on the ballot. I wish I knew why. Crazy? Greedy? Egomaniacs?
its the payout, you know if someone has that kind of $ to toss into hole, there has to be something in it, and it isnt just dirt.
Best government money can buy.
I'll bet he just loooooves the smell of deregulation in the morning.
There is something just so wrong with this. How egocentric can one be? Just like Meg Whitman who has spent so many millions for what? To be a politician? Really? What a profound waste of money -- even if one of them was to actually get elected. Think of all the good they could have done with that money instead of just feeding their ego. And exactly why would I want either one of these big business corporate-loving douches to be "representing" me? I wouldn't - and they clearly would be representing their big-business corporate buddies, not the hard working middle-class schmucks like me.
Please note. This was $50,000,000.00 just to get on the ballot. Not win. Just get to run as his party's candidate.
Shameful. In every state.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott speaks to the media at a Catholic church Tuesday before polls close.
Keep your politics away from religion and your religion away from politics! Nauseating.
It's a power trip! Same with the women in CA's race. Money is power, politics is even more power to make even more money. As long as voters exhibit blind stupidity this crap will only get worse.
Don't you just love what America has become? If you have money you aren't just above the law, you are the law. America the new aristocracy.
I voted for him! I tried to elect the slimiest, crudest, most obnoxious candidate for governor (and it was a tough choice between Scott and McCullum). I knew Sink would win today. Not that Sink is anywhere near perfect, but she will get my vote as the "cream" of the pond, rather than the bottom dwellers of the elephant candidates we have to choose from this year.
Florida's Legislature and entire government (including all department secretaries) is dominated by Republicans (Sink is the ONLY Dem on the Florida Cabinet) and has been since Jeb won office. Yet, the Reps keep saying "something is wrong with government, something is wrong in Tallahassee". The Reps have been in control of the Legislature since, I believe, 1992. And the governor has been GOP since 1998. Twelve + years, and the Reps are screaming that "government is broken".
Whose watch has it "broken" under after that many years?
Scumbag. Anybody but Scott!
You morons who voted for Scott have handed the Democrats the governorship. What were you thinking? It's going to be fun watching him try to shift gears and get votes from people who aren't racist hate-mongers and who recognize an opportunistic crook for what he is. It won't work.
Hey, I'm just happy to be here, happy to be anywhere after two days in the cooler for making an off-the-cuff comment about the Anne Frank tree a couple of days ago.
Wishing all the election winners the best of luck in November. We need new leadership.
Every one of the candidates in the Florida election has either a criminal or fraud history except Charlie Christ. He is the likeable guy but did not do much in office. It is really sad at the choices. Rick Scott and Jeff Green stated "I will not bow down to special interest groups or be bought"!!! I would not think you need to with 200 million in the bank, Green is a billionaire and will take his mega yacht out and tear up another coral reef to cool off after losing.
Sickening, barf, and we think we can do better, but never do.........................................
Florida needs to change its government. The Repubs have had over 15 years in power in Florida and have made the state a complete mess.
Vote DEMOCRAT and lets get rid of all the crazy Republicans that have ruined my state!
Ha, what you Liberals don't get is that Scott was elected because we are tired of Liberals, even if they do have an R by their name. BRING ON THE MIDTERMS!
He won the Republican primary, defeating another Republican who wasn't enough of a Nazi for the "true believers". Bring on the Baggers, Birthers and Buffoons who support a guy who stole $300 Million from Medicare.
Here is a very interesting fact about the Florida primary. In 2008, the Democratic turnout was 10% higher than the Republicans. In today's primary, the Republican turnout was 50% higher than the Democratic turnout. If this is an indicator, what many of the pollster such as Rasmussen, Schoen, Morris, and others say is coming true. The Republican base is much more energized than the Democratic. With independents polling 58% to 33% for the Republicans, the worst case scenerio which these pollsters are predicting may just be in play.
Real good point. You are exactly right. The Republicans are more motivated. Just a reality today. Makes me frustrated though. After watching the Republicans behave as they have for 16 years through the Clinton/Bush jr. years I switched to the Democrat party and have never looked back. After witnessing the damage done to this nation through the Bush years it is hard to believe anyone would trust the Republican party again. Especially since all they want to do is continue the policy's that got all of us into this mess in the first place.
As a Democrat I yelled at the top of my voice about deficit spending from the very beginning of the Bush years. I got no support from those who call themselves Tea Braggers today. I wonder where the Tea Braggers were when Bush jr. doubled our national debt? They were silent and busy calling me a traitor because I wanted to fund our wars with taxes. Instead, the Tea Braggers wanted a tax cut in the middle of a war. Something never before done in our nation.
When the Democrats took over the House and Senate in 2006 many bills were proposed to stave off the pending disaster we are all aware of today. Everything was stopped with Republican Filibusters turning our Senate into a non-functioning body. As a freshman Senator in 2006 Obama authored two bills to prevent exactly the meltdown we experienced. The Republican threat of filibuster prevented those bills from going to the floor for a vote. The Republican Party were obstructionists going back to 2006 and have virtually stopped any attempt to save our economy creating compromise bills which accomplish nothing more than to enrich corporations and create more debt.
There is more of course but it does no good. In a way, I hope the Republicans take over our government once again as they did from 2000 to 2006. Perhaps after a second round of Republican failure the American people will take those Republican crooks and throw them in jail because Republican solutions will destroy our nation even more than they have in the past.
Gary: "As a Democrat I yelled at the top of my voice about deficit spending from the very beginning of the Bush years."
And why aren't you screaming louder now that the dems have trippled deficit spending and raise the debt more in 18 months that the Bush did in 8 years, all while increasing the size of government and destroying the economy?
Folks like Whitman, Ca; McMahon, WWE, Conn; Fiorina, fired HP Exec, Ca and now Scott in Fla... these republicans would like nothing more than to return to power to finish destroying the middle class so that we end up with a 2 class society -- the very rich and the very poor. Who said it was illegal to purchase a political appointment... these folks certainly purchased their nominations. There are a little more than 300 million people in this country... we must and have to remain engaged and by all means VOTE!
Ray don't believe the polls... they are desiged to discourage you from voting. If you google the actual poll, then scroll until you get to the methodology used in collecting the data results, you will most assuredly be made aware, as I have, the claim will be that no more than 1,000 or so people were contacted in a few states, yet the results will be reported using language like "Most", "Majority," "6 out of 10 Americans Disagree with Pres. Obama" -- all lies... Pls, Pls, Pls never again believe a poll... go into the poll and see the data and how it was collected, who was contacted and where the contacts were made, and what questions were asked. Always remember the media is a corporation... they benefit more by misrepresenting the facts and supporting the Republicans. The media has been successful in framing a negative narrative, covering nonsense controversies (Sara Palin/Glen Beck) and NOT covering the successes and the achievements of the Obama administration. This is no accident ... this is by design.
If the media benefits more by supporting Republicans, as you claim, why did NBC donate so much money to the Obama campaign in 2008? It's strange how the Democrats say polls are meaningless now that they are polling so low. I didn't hear that when they had Obama at 68% approval last August.(25 points higher than now)
OMG you can't be serious?? Right wing media is behind the stste of the economy> Bush and Barney Frank handed Obama a warm turd with the economy. All sides are acting like drunken sailors--spend spend spend.
We are now offically a nanny state
all the money spent is a stimilus for the Florida economy....tv ads, print ads, etc, quit complaining about the spending. It's his money, he can do with it what he wants to.
Damn right....Scott stole his money, from Medicare, fair and square. We need more substance abusing crooks like Dumya and the Greed Over Patriotism economic terrorists. Isn't that what made this country great????
Wonder what kind of benefits come with paying that much for a job???
Huge commissions for selling more Treasuries to the Communist Chinese to finance tax cuts for the rich.
Most of these folks understand business and return on investment. To spend/invest $50ml is a large investment. His financial gain and return must be huge. Wonder how they do it? Hell, wonder why they do it.
And we are supposed to believe that Barack Obama did not raise money to be elected as a chief executive that was far in excess of the salary? Come on, people. Get real. It cost a lot of money and a lot of false promises for Obama to get elected so why do we expect it to be different in our states?
In CA we have Whitman who outspent Scott in FL by over 2-1 in order to get on the ballot. Now she gets to run against Jerry Brown who we already had as a governor once decades ago. Between Jerry Brown and Davis the two of them absolutely ruined the state's economy vis a vis the unions and the pension system. Now the former Governor Moonbeam wants yet another bite at our apple. Not for me. I'm not in love with Meg Whitman either but I know what Brown is all about and I don't like it
GO SCOTT!!! Great Job!!!
I don't know why I bother. ALL politicians are dirty. They ALL spent way too much money for a job that doesn't pay all that much. Power? Benefits? Control? I'm pushing 60, and I have yet to feel that my vote has ever meant a damn thing. So what does that leave me to believe? I believe I'll turn off the tv and have another beer. On the other hand, I still believe Scott is a self-serving pr1ck.
Dgstrat..Scott won because McCullum was caught with too many gaffes. The issue with flip flopping on the bill that Arizona passed on illegal immigrants was HUGE.
You have to establish your Birther, Bagger, Buffoon credentials early and often if you are going to run under the Greed Over Patriotism banner in Florida, Arizona or Alaska. Having $300 Million that you acquired via Medicare fraud is also a huge plus.
True! Immigration is a big issue in Arizona. In Arizona the majority of the people hate our government and hate our Civil Liberty's. The people here are very comfortable violating peoples civil liberty's in Arizona. In fact, they love it. makes one wonder what kind of government Arizona would have if the state seceded from the union.
Here in Arizona the legislature is so controlled by the NRA they actually voted into law that it is alright to carry a handgun into a bar. The only smart thing they did was to put a provision into the law that bar owners can put a sign up saying "NO GUNS". The result? Every bar and establishment serving alcohol in the state put the sign up. Bar owners are much smarter then Arizona legislators.
Arizona keeps electing Joe Arpaio as Sheriff even though he poses for pictures with members of the Ari an nation. Tells you exactly what the people in Arizona are like. I came to Arizona by mistake. I'm headed back to Arkansas where people still think before they open their mouths. Oh boy! That says a lot.
What do you mean hate our civil liberties. Preposterous!!
Here in Arizona, we only hate other peoples civil liberties. Not our own. For gosh sakes. Get it right, will ya. We wrap our selves in the American Flag more than most. While I'll have you know, we had a Republican state congresswoman, pushing a bill that would allow high school students to carry guns on campus.
We believe in civil liberties. When that failed she wanted to arm the teachers, that would certainly bring some law and order to the campuses don't ya think. I mean I am all for arming the very people our little rugrats do their best to irritate for 200 plus days a year.
So don't go sayin, we here in arizona don't like are civil liberties.
Regards
The Equalizer