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You should not
vote for Rick Scott because he spoke the truth when he said he is not a
scientist. No, even though that statement
is one of the few truths we’ve heard from CEO Scott in his almost four years of
occupation of Tallahassee, we should not vote for him because it is true. In fact you need to say loudly you will not
vote for him, because this truth is highly suspect, as most of his pronouncements
are, thickly underlain with obfuscation and deceit.
This use of truth
to mislead and fraud the minds of Florida’s public is characteristic of the
man, a leadership style that directs without direction, a man in a dimly lit wheelhouse
aimlessly turning the helm of his self-financed state vessel, dumbly looking
for fair winds and a following sea in a monsoon of public ire and
dissatisfaction, all the while speaking truths as if they were edicts of wisdom
from Zarathustra and denying their injurious nature to our fair State.
No, we should not,
must not, vote for this shill of a man who has given away our children’s future
to narrow focused special interests, the highest bidders for his enabling
decrees so damaging to natural Florida.
He has done
lasting, perhaps permanent damage to the very things that define Florida as
Florida, all the while claiming against plain truth and human intelligence that
what he is doing is The People’s will.
He destroyed the state’s ability to protect its natural systems and
claimed it was needed to foster economic development when no study declared it
was a rational path to forge; and even when a history of record-setting posterity
under stiff environmental regulation offered prima facie evidence it was
not.
We must vote
against another four years of this man’s shameless anti-Florida, anti-public, pro-special
interest deceitfulness. By destroying
Florida’s capacity to plan for its future, he destroyed our State’s ability to
determine its own fate, to determine how we as residents want it to look and
function for our progeny, and has given it over to the vicious, unsympathetic
control of shareholder-owned corporations whose only interest is profit; profit
now, and as much as possible, even if it incurs the most cynical forms of abuse
and destruction of our natural resources.
Under a sulphurous
cloud of cynicism, deceit and subterfuge, he now hangs on to a poisonous
political strength transfused by impossible promises of money to repair the
very environmental rot he so enthusiastically fostered over the last three
years.
No, you must not vote
for Rick Scott. You must exercise your
right to take this ugliness from our midst, from our lives and from our
children’s future.
And, yes, you must
vote for Amendment 1 to change Florida’s Constitution and by doing so, look the
tea-party destroyers of our State straight in their Norquist-jaded eyes and
demand adequate, dependable funding be generated to repair the mounting
environmental neglect they have fostered.
Go. Now.
