On his way out the door as Governor, after eight years, Governor SCOTT has bestowed exactly what for West Augustine, Hastings, and other impoverished areas and the people who live there here in St. Johns County?
Without citing any reason at all, Governor SCOTT vetoed money for West Augustine sewers in 2016.
Blatant racism and discrimination -- there was NO veto of money to restore a river at the beach.
I filed a civil rights complaint, which incurious TRUMP Administration janissaries refused to investigate, natch.
Florida's rebarbative repulsive reptilian retromingent Republican Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT would not even vote to pardon the long-dead Grovesvlle Four, leaving the job to Governor -elect DeSANTIS and his cabinet.
Pitiful.
Here's a story from the Florida Bulldog:
Scott delivers economic development ‘gifts’ as state’s unemployment rate plummets to 3.3 percent
By John Haughey | Watchdog.org 17 hrs ago
Florida Governor Rick Scott speaks at a press conference stop in Jacksonville on August 15, 2017.
Before Gov. Rick Scott departs Tallahassee for Washington in early January, he’s leaving behind a few gifts under the Christmas tree to boost regional economic development projects across the state.
The term-limited Republican governor, who will join the U.S. Senate in 2019, is allocating $29.5 million from the state’s Job Growth Grant Fund to four projects in Orange, Escambia, Pasco and Gadsden counties.
The Job Growth Grant Fund was created in 2017 by Scott and the Legislature to help fund regional infrastructure projects vital to economic and workforce development initiatives.
In its first year, the fund provided $85 million for projects around the state. With the Dec. 21 allocation of $29.5 million from this year’s $85 million set-aside, Scott is gifting the remaining $27 million for his successor, Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, to dole out after he assumes office on Jan. 8.
The four recipient projects were among more than 100 proposals requesting a combined $610 million submitted to the DEO. They are:
$16 million to Orange County to expand Kirkman Road to six lanes and alleviate congestion in the corridor that feeds the Orange County Convention Center and other nearby destinations.
$10 million to Escambia County’s expansion project at Pensacola International Airport, including additional taxiways and ramps and completing work on hangars.
$3.09 million to Pasco County to create Overpass Business Park, a 100-acre economic development site along Interstate 75.
$357,328 to Gadsden Technical Institute to develop a diesel-system technician training program.
Florida’s estimated jobless rate was 3.3 percent in November, according to the Department of Economic Opportunity, which translates to 335,000 Floridians qualifying as being unemployed from a labor force of 10.26 million. That's nearly 8 percentage points lower than when Scott was first elected in 2010. The nation’s unemployment rate in November was 3.7 percent.
Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, had the lowest jobless mark in November, 2.4 percent, followed by St. Johns and Okaloosa counties at 2.5 percent.
The two counties directly hit by Hurricane Michael in October have the state’s highest unemployment rates -- Gulf County’s at 8.4 percent and Bay County at 6.1 percent. Both had 2.8 percent unemployment rates in October.
Accompanying the DEO announcement, a statement from Scott’s office said Florida businesses have created more than 1.67 million private-sector jobs during his eight-year tenure, with the state’s employment growth rate outpacing the nation in 79 of the last 80 months — all but September 2017 in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
The DEO bases it estimates on household and employer surveys. Its analysis indicates significant job growth occurred in the state’s leisure and hospitality sectors, which combined to add 53,200 new jobs thus far in 2018.
Next highest job-generating sectors were education and health services jobs, up 50,700 positions, followed by professional and business services, 45,400 jobs, and construction, 32,900 jobs. Government jobs, most at the local level, declined by 9,600 in the same period.
In Scott’s statement, he noted that when he took over the governor’s office in January 2011, the state’s jobless mark stood at 11.1 percent, which was higher than the nation’s 9.4 percent rate as the country recovered from the recession.
Scott’s 2010 campaign included a seven-step economic program that “over a seven-year period will have a positive economic impact and create over 700,000 jobs for the state of Florida."
Eight years later, he may have exceeded that campaign goal by nearly a half-million jobs.
“Being governor is the best job in the world, and I am excited about the economic success that Florida has been able to achieve over the past eight years,” Scott said.
Scott will have an opportunity to apply lessons learned in creating jobs in Florida on a national scale when he arrives in Washington, where he has been assigned to the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Committee on the Budget.
Scott will be sworn into office on Jan. 8, five days after Congress convenes, to avoid a gap between him and Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis.
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