Why that woman who yelled at Florida Gov. Rick Scott should be your hero [View all]

[lovemydog]

The career of Rick Scott, Florida's Republican governor, has long been one of the outstanding mysteries of the nation's statehouses. He won his first race for governor in 2010, even though the hospital company he ran until being forced out in 1997, Columbia/HCA, had been accused of defrauding federal healthcare programs and paid $1.7 billion in fines, damages, and penalties, then the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history. He won reelection in 2014, despite amassing a politically retrograde position on healthcare issues at odds with his supposed expertise in the field.

'You don't care about working people -- you should be ashamed to show your face around here.' Cara Jennings gives Gov. Rick Scott both barrels. Scott hasn't supported Medicaid expansion for Florida under the Affordable Care Act, with the result that more than 560,000 Floridians who would have been covered with health insurance are left uninsured, according to an estimate by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Only a few weeks ago, he signed an anti-Planned Parenthood law that could deprive thousands of women of healthcare from that organization.

That's what makes Scott's encounter Tuesday with a stay-at-home mom named Cara Jennings look so much like rough justice. A video of the encounter, which has gone viral, is below, and can also be seen here. It's rare that the average citizen gets a chance to tell a governor what she thinks, face-to-face. It's plain that Scott didn't know what hit him. In brief, Jennings calls Scott "an embarrassment to our state." That's the kindest thing she calls him (watch the video, but be careful about doing so at work).

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-florida-20160406-snap-htmlstory.html