Newcomer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott told reporters on Monday that he is against gay adoptions, is pro life and would have signed off on the controversial abortion measure passed earlier this year by Florida Legislature.
According to the News Service of Florida, Scott, on the last day of his bus tour, fielded questions from reporters for about three-quarters of an hour, on a range of topics including oil drilling, politics and social issues.
Scott said that he is pro life and will be a pro life governor. Scott said too, he would have signed HB 1143, which would have required most women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound.
On his anti-gay adoption stance, Scott said, “I believe a child should be raised by a man and a woman. I think it’s better for the child.”
Scott, an outsider, has spent about $22.9 million of his own money and leads his GOP rival Bill McCollum by six percentage points, according to a recent poll conducted for McCollum by consultants McLaughlin & Associates, Politico stated, reports News Service of Florida.
A former health care executive, Scott has built ad campaigns around his support for an immigration law similar to Arizona, to which McCollum was initially opposed. In his campaign ads he has also had to defend the largest Medicare fraud in the US, in which Columbia/HCA Healthcare engaged, when he was its CEO. Scott defines the $1.7 billion fine which his former company had to pay to the government as, “mistakes.”
A poll released by Public Policy Polling on Thursday, July 22, revealed that if Scott is the Republican nominee, Alex Sink, the Democratic nominee in the race for Florida governor, leads by 36:30 percent. If McCollum is the nominee, Sink leads by an even wider margin, 37:23 percentage points.
News Service of Florida
