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Sen. Rick Scott On The GOP Convention NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., about the Republican National Convention and mail-in voting in Florida. The appeals court granted a writ of prohibition barring the circuit judge from taking any further action in the case. Under Florida law, a manual recount is triggered if election results show a margin of less than 0.5% of the vote.In January 2019, Scott encouraged President Trump to declare a national emergency to build a border wall if Congress would not give him the funds to do so.In April 2019, amid calls for an American military intervention in Venezuela, Scott said that the Maduro regime was perpetrating a "genocide" and that the U.S. was "not aggressive enough" about the situation. In 2006, Scott said that his plans for Solantic were to establish a national brand of medical clinics.In August 2007, the company received a $40 million investment from a private equity firm and said that it expected to open 35 clinics by the end of 2009, with annual revenues of $100 million once all these clinics were open, compared to $20 million at the time.Solantic was the target of an employment discrimination suit, which claimed that there had been a policy to not hire elderly or obese applicants, preferring "mainstream" candidates. NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2015 - 2020 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 08/22/20 for Fundraising totals, Source of Funds and Total Raised vs Average, and on 07/21/20 for Top Contributors and Industries.

By early 1999, the network was available in 9.5 million American homes.Solantic opened its first urgent care center in 2002. During Scott's tenure as governor, Florida employers created nearly 1.5 million jobs, and the state's employment grew 20.3 percent, compared to 12.5 percent growth for the U.S. as a whole. Scott responded to Salon regarding the claims of discrimination pointing out that In 2003, Scott invested $5.5 million in Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacies,In February 2009, Scott founded Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), which he said was intended to put pressure on In October 2011, Scott announced that he would be running for reelection in 2014.As of early June 2014, Scott had spent almost $13m since March on television advertisements attacking former governor By late September 2014, Scott's television ad spending had exceeded $35mCrist hoped to draw strong support from Florida's more than 1.6 million registered black voters, an effort that was challenging with regards to his previous political career as a Republican. The five-page ruling agreed with Scott's argument that only the Commission on Ethics “has constitutional authority to investigate Mr. Hinkle's complaint.”As of February 2018, Scott had an A+ rating from the On June 9, 2017, Scott signed an expanded version of Florida's In 2010, Scott ran for governor as an immigration hard-liner.In 2011, Scott opposed giving in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, but reversed course in 2014 and signed a bill giving DREAMers in-state tuition in an effort to place limits on how much state institutions can raise tuition each year.After voters approved a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana, Scott signed a bill passed by the legislature which allowed the use of medical marijuana but not smokeable medical marijuana.In the 2010 elections, Florida voters passed constitutional amendments banning On February 16, 2011, Scott rejected $2.3 billion in federal funding to develop In March 2011, Scott moved to have the Florida Department of Transportation amend its work plan to include $77 million for dredging In 2018, Scott reversed course and supported a high-speed rail project between Tampa and Orlando when the company Scott frequently sought to implement voter IDs as Florida governor, with numerous courts ruling against him in voting rights cases.In 2016, Scott refused to extend registration deadlines after ordering evacuations due to Hurricane Matthew; courts ultimately extended the deadline. In October 2018, In February 2019, Scott announced that he would no longer keep his holdings in a blind trust.In 2017, Scott and his wife held stocks in firms that did business with the Maduro regime in Venezuela and a shipping firm with close ties to the Putin regime in Russia.In a July 2018 financial disclosure statement, Scott and his wife reported earnings of at least $2.9 million in hedge funds registered in the Scott and his wife invested at least $3 million in the parent company of All Aboard Florida, a rail investment company that proposed to build high-speed rail between Orlando and Tampa.Scott was an investor in the firm Conduent Inc., which was awarded a $287 million Florida contract in 2015 to manage SunPass, the toll program in the state of Florida. Due to glitches in SunPass, motorists were charged bank fees and overdraft charges, and the Department of Transportation in Florida came under criticism for failing to take action.

In 1954, Esther married Orba George Scott Jr. (died 2006), a truck driver. Is it not enough that he spent 70 million dollars on a website geared towards making it impossible to collect a measly $275 In Florida unemployment INSURANCE but the system doesn’t even function.

Scott grew up in public housing in the Midwest as his adoptive father, a World War II veteran and truck driver, and his mother, a store clerk, struggled to financially support their family.