Sparks fly as Nelson, Scott debate

[TexasTowelie]

Republican Gov. Rick Scott repeatedly accused three-term Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of being a do-nothing incumbent while Nelson repeatedly accused Scott of dishonesty on Tuesday during the first face-to-face debate in their nationally watched U.S. Senate race.

They clashed on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, the toxic algae and red tide problems plaguing Florida’s coastal and inland waters and other issues during a one-hour meeting at the studio of Spanish-language Telemundo 51. Each sprinkled a few sentences of Spanish into their remarks, but they mainly debated in English for a broadcast that was to air Tuesday evening with Spanish translation.

Scott frequently mentioned Nelson’s more than 40 years in a variety of public offices and at least twice suggested the 76-year-old senator was “confused.”

Nelson said the election is about “trust and integrity” and at one point told Scott: “Governor, you just can’t tell the truth.”

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[beachbum bob]

1. good to see Nelson go at Scott, Scott is as corrupt as they come and has gotten away with for too

long

[sandensea]

2. The fact that a $2 billion Medicare fraudster can even stand up there, much less be governor

is in itself an eloquent statement of the depraved times we live in.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Red Tide Rick is as disgusting as the algae he and Big Sugar created on the Gulf Coast.

[jovibennett]

4. the red tide is on my coast

I live on the treasure coast of Florida and the red tide has come to us. It is awful. Can't go to the beach and dogs have died from it.

[RockaFowler]

5. Still can't believe this

I've lived in South Florida since 1986. I've never seen the water this bad. The Blue-Green muck up on the Treasure Coast. The Red Tide now extending all the way down to Lake Worth. The Red Tide on the West Coast is one of the worst ever. Yesterday the Miami Herald ran a story about the crabs dying on the beaches. Just not good.

So how again is pRick Scott even close in this race??