We need your help down here in the Sunshine State. With redistricting on the horizon and a scary monster running for Governor on the Republican ticket, one race in November will change the future forever - for better or worse.
Yesterday Alex Sink took off the gloves. Now she needs some support to match the additional $1.1 million dollar check that Rick Scott wrote himself after he promised to stop trying to buy the election from his own bank account.
40% of Florida voters will vote for the guy with the (R) by his name, even though he pleaded the fifth 75 times and still refuses to explain why he allowed his own company to commit Medicare fraud to the tune of $1.7 billion.
Help us with the 60% in November. Support Alex Sink for Governor of Florida.
To tell you the truth, I am terrified. The polls have tightened. It actually seems that a slight majority of Florida voters would rather elect a proven crook than a Democrat. Rick Scott is an absolute gamble, with no real experience. He would be working with a Republican state congress that is truly evil. All the work we did to defeat Senate Bill 6 would be thrown away, and Florida's public schools and teachers unions would be destroyed forever.
Not to mention redistricting.
These are very scary times.
I already mentioned the sad fact that any Republican candidate will automatically have 40% of Florida's votes. This time in includes a man synonomous with Medicaire fraud. Seriously, when you type his name into Google it automatically exposes his shady past.
And he is in a dead heat to become the next Governor of Florida?
Great Scott? While one candidate Republicans were bullish on -- Whitman -- finds herself in trouble in California, two other gubernatorial candidates whom GOPers considered deeply flawed -- Rick Scott in Florida and Nathan Deal in Georgia -- now have even or better odds of winning their contests. In a normal political environment, the fact that Scott's Columbia/HCA hospital chain was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare/Medicaid fraud committed under Scott's watch would probably disqualify him for higher office, especially in senior-heavy Florida. But right now, Scott's either tied or slightly leading in the general election to be Florida's next governor. (One Democrat observing the contest, though, is confident they'll beat Scott, saying: "At the end of the day, voters are going to reject Scott.") Sink has her first direct attack on Scott up on the Medicare fraud story, using law enforcement officials from Florida to make the charges.
That is from Chuck Todd's blog. With California turning positive, it is time to head off another disaster in Florida.
The political environment trumps all -- in friendly and competitive states: These two examples are reminders how the overall political environment -- which is benefiting Republicans right now -- can trump even the most damaging opposition research. And this was true in 2006, when Democrats Rod Blagojevich in Illinois and Jim Doyle in Wisconsin cruised to re-election despite facing ethics questions, or in 2008, when Al Franken (a controversial and outspoken candidate) narrowly beat Norm Coleman in Minnesota. Here's a handy guide: When the political winds are at their party's back, flawed and imperfect candidates can win in friendly or competitive states.
There is a tragedy on the horizon if that trump is played in November in Florida. We are doing everything we can on the ground, but we need your help.
As goes Florida...