WTF?!: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Refuses to Come Out on Stage for Gubernatorial Debate [VIDEO]

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Okay, gotta go do a broadcast, so I’ll leave it to someone else to explain what the hell this is all about, as just posted moments ago…

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UPDATE: Um…okay…so…I’m now out of the broadcast and…um…here’s video of Gov. Rick Scott actually explaining why he had refused to come out on stage at the debate…

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WTF?!: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Refuses to Come Out on Stage for Gubernatorial Debate [VIDEO]

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  1. 1)
    Bruce said on 10/15/2014 @ 6:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    Our great experiment of self governing ruined by a fan. We were so close. It has become too easy for a political comedian these days.

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    Soul Rebel said on 10/15/2014 @ 8:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    Well, Rick Scott is a douchebag is pretty much all I can figure out with “what the hell this is about”, but I could have told you that before I watched the video. It appears that much of the audience feels the same way.

    Crist – seriously – should have had them take the fan away and endured the miserable shitty Florida weather, though. It would have made Scott look even smaller than he is.

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    Ernest A. Canning said on 10/16/2014 @ 7:42am PT: [Permalink]

    Crist is circulating an email that he labeled #fangate

    And then there’s the twitter site, @CCristFan

    Crist aka Tanman, doesn’t like to sweat.

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    Greg J said on 10/16/2014 @ 12:44pm PT: [Permalink]

    So let me get this straight: Scott’s “explanation” for not appearing was that waiting for his opponent, Crist, to appear onstage and be ready… which he already had, in front of the live audience and TV cameras…
    Bald-faced lying seems to be a such a way of life for Scott, he just can’t stop himself, even when the deceit is patently obvious to all. But then, it’s not like we should expect different from the man whose hospital corporation was convicted of the then-largest fraud in US history (and from which he still walked away personally with tens of millions in cash and stocks).

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    Greg J said on 10/16/2014 @ 12:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    Only in Florida (and perhaps Texas, Alaska, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia – ok, pretty much any Red State, and a good many others – New York? – besides), could a man such as Scott become governor, instead of serving time with the many, whom men such as he, gleefully imprison for far lesser crimes.

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