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Rick Scott’s “Governed Very Differently Than What He Campaigned On” | Scathing Purple Musings

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Rick Scott’s “Governed Very Differently Than What He Campaigned On”

Lakeland republican senator Paula Dockery dropped her gubernatorial bid when she realized she couldn’t compete with Rick Scott’s money. Nonetheless, she served on his transition team after Scott’s victory over Alex Sink. In today’s Orlando Sentinel story by Aaron Deslatte, Dockery has some sharp criticism for Scott:

“I think he has governed very differently than what he campaigned on,” said Sen. Paula Dockery, a Lakeland Republican who served on Scott’s transition team but has criticized his decisions to kill the high-speed train and cut education and environmental spending.

Dockery says Scott, who had lived in Florida for only seven years when he ran for governor, refused