R i g h t a r d i a: Rick Scott tries to become the Dictator of Florida

Friday, January 14, 2011

Rick Scott tries to become the Dictator of Florida

Rick Scott's Power Grab

Immediately after taking office, Rick Scott signed an executive order that froze new regulations.

He then found out that he doesn't have any legal authority to veto regulations in the Chief Financial Officer's Office that used to be called Lieutenant Governor office, the Attorney Generals office or the Agricultural Commissioners office.

So he sent request to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam to voluntary accede to his veto authority.

All three told Scott, "not only no, but hell no!"

State Cabinet members who were elected independently. Of the three the Attorney General Office certainly needs a Separation of Powers from the governor's office to avoid political influence in criminal and civil investigations.

Rightardia applauds the three cabinet member for holding their ground.

Is it a good idea to freeze regulations? if Scott knew more about government, he would have thought twice about doing that. When the legislature changes the law, the state agencies have to write new regulations to reflect the changes.

If these new regulations aren't published, the changes to the law won't be reflected which will cause confusion for Floridians. Arbitrarily freezing all state regulations was a bad idea.

Essentially, Scott is saying I can disregard the will of the people and their elected representative by freezing regulatory changes that I don't agree with.

St. Petersburg Times

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Each Times article has reuse options. Using the Post | Post Full Article options, a blogger can post the entire Times article with Time's ads for free After you copy a script the article generates to your blog.

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Unfortunately when we previewed the article, it was not very legible and required extensive scrolling to read it. We will continue to experiment with this new St. Petersburg Time's blog scripting capability.