Rick Scott Robbed Peter to Pay Paul to Get JD Alexander His University
USF Poly Tech is in Senator Paula Dockery’s home town. From the start, Dockery knew that JD Alexander’s desire for an independent Poly Tech was a bad idea. But Dockery must be appalled by the crony capitalism that delivered Alexander his little fiefdom, and Rick Scott’s role in the unseemly episode is looking more unseemly as events unfold. Dockery writes about an ongoing conversation she had with a UF student on Facebook in aFlorida Voices column:
It arrived a week before Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill separating USF Poly into a separate 12th university, without ever giving its 1,300 students and 100 faculty members the courtesy of a meeting.
Despite overwhelming opposition, the governor said he signed the bill because “the primary