Trouble in Paradise? Rick Scott's Billionaire Finance Co-Chairman Quits Campaign
Billionaire Mike Fernandez, the chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, is quitting the campaign because of "behind-the-scenes disagreements" according to The Miami Herald...Fernandez, however, has reportedly been dissatisfied with the direction of the campaign for weeks now. Fernandez first started expressing his problems with the campaign roughly a month ago when he emailed top Scott supporters complaining about a pair of campaign aides who made jokes in a Mexican accent on the way to a Mexican restaurant in Coral Gables, where Fernandez lives. Fernandez is Cuban.....
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I am now thinking he would be more valuable to Florida as a governor. Don't know who the Third Way, er, DNC, would pick or would have picked, don't care. Debbie Wasserman can STFU, too.
And to anyone who has any complaints about him - take the advice of some DUers - shut up, vote Dem, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, he is better than Scott.....
I do not think Scott has fooled anyone into thinking he is a good guy. He now has to choose, IMO, between pandering to his base or pretending to care about working people (emphasis on teachers), minorities, (no I am not saying minorities are not working people!), education, jobs, Florida natural resources. He would have to okay a high-speed train - metaphorically, I know the time is past, expand Medicaid, lower college tuition and/or do something about the cost. Real things, things that help real people.
I don't think has has the stomach for it, or the skill to navigate between his base and the rest of us, gaining some votes without losing others.
