Plea for Zika aid brings Florida Gov. Rick Scott to Capitol Hill

[jpak]

Source: Miami Herald

TALLAHASSEE - Republican Gov. Rick Scott is headed to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon to visit with eight members of Florida’s congressional delegation.

The topic: federal aid to prepare for and combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

“We’ve got to have a federal plan,” Scott told reporters on Tuesday. “My job is to help get the state prepared and that is what this trip is to do.”

Scott’s daily schedule includes meetings on Capitol Hill with only Republicans: U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Curbelo, both of Miami, Gus Bilirakis of Palm Harbor, Ander Crenshaw of Jacksonville, Tom Rooney of Okeechobee, Curt Clawson of Bonita Springs and David Jolly of Indian Shores, and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article76939832.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article76939832.html

[dembotoz]

1. and what is there well thought out plan for women who are carying a massively deformed child?

[COLGATE4]

3. Have the child. And our best wishes for its future.

There. I spelled out Rick's plan in detail.

[McKim]

2. This is Rich

This is rich. A Republican governor, whose party has been screaming anti tax for decades wants some federal money! Maybe fForidians can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make their own piecemeal plans for Zika.

[houston16revival]

5. +10,000

Survival-of-the-fittest social Darwinist seeks federal aid

and uses government to restrict Floridian's reproductive rights

Bedroom. Bathroom. GMO. Your health. Our choice.

[jwirr]

4. This is a plan that is needed but just Rs? Plus Rick Scott?

Didn't he get indicted for Medicaid fraud or something having to do with some company he was running. I would much prefer that it be a R & D committee and that Rick Scott be left out of the plan.

Since this is going to effect people as far north the Great Lakes it needs to be an honest plan that works.