Rick Scott's Oil-Drilling "Win" for Florida Was Probably Illegal [View all]
When you're pals with the dumbest person ever elected U.S. president, it's pretty easy to persuade the leader of the free world to do some stupid shit that makes you look good. Take, for instance, Florida Gov. Rick Scott: After Donald Trump's secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, announced a plan this week to open every inch of American coastline to offshore oil-drilling, Scott claimed he called members of the Trump administration and, basically overnight, persuaded them to rewrite the rule so that it doesn't affect Florida, America's 49 other states be damned.
That plan seems to have worked for barely a day. Because most D.C. politicians are also lawyers, a whole lot of other state leaders quickly realized the decision to exempt Florida was probably illegal and violated vital rule-making sections of the federal Administrative Procedures Act, which mandates that changes such as this one not be "arbitrary or capricious," among other things.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/rick-scotts-oil-drilling-win-for-florida-was-probably-illegal-9980202
In all honesty, I just liked the first sentence.
Scott has a history of being open to oil wells off the Florida coast, including in writing.
Rick Scott is much more intelligent than Jeb and like Jeb understands how to carry himself to gain favor with Florida voters. I bet twenty percent of the voting age population in this state doesn't know who their governor is. That isn't by accident.
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