Former Republican State Senator and three-term Representative in the Florida House, Paula Dockery, in an op-ed column in The Ledger, lays bare the ‘pay to play’ schemes that characterize the Rick Scott administration. Here is an except:
Tea party folks cheered wildly when [Rick] Scott exclaimed on election night that those political insiders who preferred the status quo were “crying in their cocktails” over his victory.
But they never really had to take out their hankies. Before you could say “there, there,” money was flowing freely into Scott’s Let’s Get to Work political action committee.
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The governor’s independent wealth, his eagerness to please his fiscally conservative base and his insistence that things would be different in his administration offered hope that he would set a different tone.
Unfortunately, it appears “pay to play” is alive and well — and the governor is toasting the dry-eyed cocktail crowd that continues to feed the kitty.
