Rick Scott is a miscreant billionaire whose corporation, Columbia (HCA) was fined $1.7 billion for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. At the time it was the biggest fine ever levied on a US corproation.
Bill McCollum primary campaigners referred to Scott an indicted co-conspirator during the primary.
Dan Gelber has refereed to rick Scott as a putative defendant. A putative defendant is one against whom the government already possesses incriminating evidence at the time of his appearance before a tribunal.
Scott left HCA in disgrace with a $300 million severance package, He founded another corporation, Solantic, and was promptly sued. During a deposition, he took the Firth Amendment 75 times.
One of the doctors in a Solantic clinic was forced to resign because he would not pad Medicare with unnecessary treatments or try to sell prescription drugs directly to patients. Scott views such practices as just making profits. However, when public funds are involved in programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, what were are really taking about is fraud.
Scott has the nerve to attack Alex Sink because 'her company" had been fined by the federal government, too. In this case, Bank of America (BoA), was indeed fined, but this was not the branch of B0A, that Alex Sink ran. Sink has been the CFO (treasurer) of Florida for the past 4 years.
The Scott campaign also criticized Sink for making $8 million at BoA. This is peanuts compared to the $50 million of his own money that Rick Scott spent on his Florida primary.
Rick Scott's slogan is "Let's get back to work." This is interesting from a GOP candidate in a state that has been run by the GOP for the past 12 years. The jobs crises started during the GWB era when gas prices skyrocketed. This adverely affected the Florida economy which is very dependent on tourism.
The real problem in the Florida economy is that it is not as diverse as other states and lacks a manufacturing base. One of the state's biggest industries is services because of the aged population.
Will Scott put people back to work? Rightardia doubts it unless he can hatch up another scheme to defraud the federal government.
Rightardia hopes that Floridans are smart enough to see through Rick Scott. Scott will spend whatever it takes to win.
He would be bad news as Florida's governor. Scott has no public experience at all and Florida doesn't need a governor like Arnold Schwarzenegger who goes into the governor's office on training wheels.
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