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Scott Stops In Escambia County To Stump For Legislative Priorities
May 5, 2017
With the annual legislative session scheduled to end Friday, Gov. Rick Scott made a stop in Pensacola Thursday afternoon to tout his priorities, including money for Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida.
He has clashed for months with House Speaker Richard Corcoran about funding for those agencies. A budget outline negotiated by legislative leaders would not provide money to Enterprise Florida for business incentives and would provide $25 million to Visit Florida for tourism, marketing, about a third of what Scott sought.
“Enterprise Florida is going to be basically shut down, so we will have no more Navy Federal Credit Unions,” Scott said. He has frequently highlighted Enterprise Florida’s role in landing Navy Federal and its thousands of jobs in Escambia County.
Scott urged those in attendance to contact members of the Florida Legislature and push for Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida funding.
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3 Responses to “Scott Stops In Escambia County To Stump For Legislative Priorities”
Here is a reality check,
Welcome to Gov Rick Scotts world. He would rather veto all funding for disabled children and spend our taxpayer dollars to settle lawsuits against him for violating Florida Sunshine laws for open government to the tune of 1.3 Million dollars. Approves 2 Million dollars for a sea wall around a golf course in south Florida. This is the same Gov. that tried to put severely disabled children into Senior nursing homes by cutting funding for in home care . Thankfully the courts stepped in and stopped it.
Such a disgrace.
If you feel your pay as a correctional officer isn’t cutting it, you’re free to seek out employment elsewhere. No on owes you anything.
When governor Scott is in Pensacola he should go visit the prison in century and see just how bad he and his appointees have screwed it up. And you have the superintendent of schools crying about the budget saying no one could make ends meet on the same budget for ten years but every correctional officer in the state of Florida has managed to do it with no raise for nine years with a three percent loss in wages