Florida House candidate Jason Henry, who is campaigning to represent the good people of District 46, spoke out against Florida’s 2012-13 Budget, which Gov. Rick Scott signed on Tuesday. Scott is trying to cash in by billing it as the “Education Budget,” complete with two days of photo ops across the state.
Jason Henry on the 2012-13 Budget:
“Governor Scott chopped $1.3 billion from public education last year, attempted to replace it with a so-called billion dollar increase this year, and then stamps ‘education budget’ on the front. Now he is spending two days traveling the state for photo ops at schools to help boost his bottom-basement poll numbers. Florida voters, the middle and working class, and students aren’t buying his deceitful attempt to purchase our affection by this Republican administration.”
“Mr. Scott and the Republican Party of Florida are leading an assault on working- and middle-class families. They have included students in their attack by slashing billions from education and punishing Florida’s future leaders. Instead of practicing deceptive political tactics to polish his tarnished image, he should engage in the creation of new opportunities for our students.”
“Our state deserves more than a token gesture of purported education funding, when it was – after all – Governor Scott who decided to remove over a billion dollars from education spending last year. He is playing a shell game with our school budgets purely for political gain, all the while smiling for the cameras and taking credit for something he didn’t actually do. We will not stand for his malfeasance of education resources any longer.”
Thank you, Jason, for standing up for what’s right for our children.