Rick Scott Yields to JD Alexander, Signs Polytechnic Bill and Does the Friday Afternoon Flee | Scathing Purple Musings

Rick Scott Yields to JD Alexander, Signs Polytechnic Bill and Does the Friday Afternoon Flee | Scathing Purple Musings:

Rick Scott Yields to JD Alexander, Signs Polytechnic Bill and Does the Friday Afternoon Flee

by Bob Sikes

From Kim Wilmath of the Tampa Bay Times:

In a year when the state’s current 11 universities’ budgets are being cut by hundreds of millions of dollars, Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill creating Florida Polytechnic out of the University of South Florida’s branch campus in Polk County — the final approval of the pet project of departing Senate President JD Alexander.
Opposing the move were students, faculty, Florida’s top business leaders and citizens all over the state, who felt that now is the wrong time to embark on an endeavor that will cost taxpayers for years to come.
“So many people worked so hard for so long on this campus,” said Gene Engle, a Lakeland realtor