Florida's Rick Scott most unpopular of all newly elected governors. 30% approval.

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Fri Dec-31-10 01:22 AM
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Florida's Rick Scott most unpopular of all newly elected governors. 30% approval.

Here's goes the media again, beating up on Rick Scott, Florida's new governor....after they spent time before the election saying nothing at all about his background in Medicare Fraud. They said nothing about any weakness he might have. They simply gave him a free ride.

So now they are worried? So are people who voted for him. They are just learning about him now. Lately several people have asked me what I know about him. Turns out they just got caught up in the anti-Alex Sink fervor pushed by the Republicans and teabaggers.

Photo from Rick Scott's campaign website

From the Tampa Bay area CBS affiliate Channel 10 News:

A New poll shows Rick Scott has only a 30 percent favorable rating making him the least popular Governor of those newly elected

Tampa, Florida --Since his election, Rick Scott has been going around the state meeting with legislators and citizens. The Governor Elect is making an impression, a bad one. According to Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling, Scott has only a 30 percent favorable rating.

Jensen says Scott is pretty unpopular and was unpopular the day he got elected. According to Jensen, the fact that Scott got elected is just a sign of how incredibly anti Democratic Florida voters were this year.

However, the fact that Scott has the least favorable rating of any newly elected governor in the country doesn't surprise political consultant Wayne Garcia. Garcia says Scott is not a likeable guy whether you agree or disagree with his politics or not. According to Garcia, Scott will never been Governor "Warm and Fuzzy."

...Don Preston told us he voted for Scott, but doesn't love him because of his background. However, Preston says he cast his ballot for Scott as a vote against Democrat Alex Sink.

And while Scott hopes to increase his favorable rating by running the state like a business, Garcia says the former CEO is in for a rude awakening.

I can tell you that a lot of people fell for the ugly Anti-Sink ads Scott ran. He gave her a whiny nasal voice, the ads were horrible.

In effect, IMO, he bought the election, paid for it out of his own money.

SO now the media is starting to show concern about him, perhaps regretting their complacency at pointing anything unfavorable about him during his campaign. After all his ads must have given money to their media outlet.

Just a few recent excerpts:

From the St. Pete Times editorial board

Incoming Gov. Rick Scott's disdain for government regulation appears to be absolute — and absolutely irresponsible. "What's the benefit of a regulation, other than delay?" he asks.

From Time Magazine:

Rick Scott: Is Florida Ready For Its "Open For Business" Governor?

.."But if Floridians are hoping Scott's corporate acumen can generate jobs for the 1.1 million of them out of work, they're also wary of his corporate past. Scott, after all, had to resign in disgrace in 1997 as CEO of the Columbia/HCA hospital corporation, the world's biggest private health care facility operator (today called just HCA), after it was slapped with $1.7 billion in federal fines for Medicare fraud, the largest such case in U.S. history. Scott himself was never charged with a crime — but the scandal is a big reason people get a tad nervous now whenever the Governor-elect, who refused to talk with any Florida newspaper editorial board during his campaign, ducks out of sight to huddle with executives.

..."As a result, Scott stands to wield less clout in Tallahassee than the establishment Republicans he belittled during his primary campaign, but who happen to control both Florida's House and Senate. "Scott is one of those people who always thinks he's the smartest one in the room," novelist and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen wrote recently, "but he will soon be educated otherwise."

And from the Miami Herald:

Advisors to Governor-elect Rick Scott are questioning the need for the state's public hospitals -- a group that includes Jackson Health System and the North and South Broward hospital districts.

In a report dated Saturday, the group chaired by Alan Levine, former head of Broward Health, stated it is ``unclear whether government should be in the business of operating a competitive enterprise using tax dollars as a subsidy without a thorough review of whether this model is the most beneficial and cost-effective way to use the tax revenue.''

Yep, just wait until he wants to start shutting down hospitals. And I have not even mentioned his fondness for education vouchers. He wants the public to pay for students to go to any private school they wish to attend. And he has the legislature backing him.

People simply refused to listen to anything bad about him before the election. Today the lady who was cutting my hair said she thinks he is weird, and what do I know about him. I gave her an earful. She said why didn't I tell her before the election.

I said the media failed her. And all the articles they write now won't matter...cause it is too late.