Rick Scott Is Enraged At "Liberals" Trying To Steal Florida Senate Election? Gimme An Effin' Break!

Asswit and sleaze criminal FLA governor Rick Scott has some nerve calling Senate voting counts an "ethical violation".  

The scenes of Rick Scott - Florida gubernator - going off half cocked and belching he will not allow "liberals to steal votes"-   is choice.  This SOB has been in the habit of sophisticated voter suppression for years in the Sunshine state. Recall, for example, the ungodly lines caused by his deliberate inefficiency and fell plan to limit voting 6 years ago, i.e.

Scene at one of the polling places in Florida in 2012, compliments of Gov. Rick Scott who cut early voting days by half. And now this asswipe vermin has the nerve to bitch about liberals stealing votes?

As I noted in a post from Nov. 4 that year:

"Scott did not do diddly about extending early voting times, thereby causing unconscionable voting line waits of up to 6 HOURS as reported in The Miami Herald. Now, Scott has forced the hand of the Florida Democratic Party to file a lawsuit early today to force Scott and the state to extend early voting. This followed a stream of complaints from voters (mostly African-American, Hispanic) who reported voting line waits of up to SEVEN hours Saturday. It also followed an ardent request on Thursday  from both the Florida Democratic Party and the League of Women voters to extend early voting hours. But Scott, unreconstructed asshole of the month that he is (maybe asshole of the year) has done neither.
As a number of outside observers have put it: "The extraordinarily long lines and extreme delays created have unjustifiably burdened the right to vote"

Let's also be clear Scott is a degenerate scam artist, con man and  criminal. Which too many Florida voters seemed to ignore - or were ignorant about - when they put this turd into office. 

To jog memories, his healthcare outfit Columbia HCA was once found guilty of overcharging Medicare over $600m while Scott was CEO. Scott himself admitted "As I have said repeatedly Columbia HA made mistakes, and I take responsibility for what happened on my watch as CEO."  What were those 'mistakes'? The Miami Herald in an expose of Scott's Columbia HCA and the aftermath (June 27, 2010) noted, despite Scott denying that he knew frauds were taking place:

"However, federal investigators found that Scott took part in business practices at Columbia/HCA that were later found to be illegal -- specifically, that Scott and other executives offered financial incentives to doctors in exchange for patient referrals, in violation of federal law, according to lawsuits the Justice Department filed against the company in 2001."

The doctor payments were among 10 different kinds of fraud identified by the Justice Department in its 10-year probe of the company, records show. Three years after Scott left Columbia HCA, the company admitted wrongdoing, pleading guilty to 14 felonies -- most committed during Scott's tenure -- in addition to paying two sets of fines totaling $1.7 billion..."

This degenerate, (like Calif. Rep Duncan Hunter very soon) ought to have been a jailbird not a sitting governor of a major state.

No one ought to take Scott's barking (or Trump's, obviously) seriously given his background. Every vote, including absentee ballots and provisional ballots, needs to be counted - not dismissed or ignored. Not to do so, to capitulate to a maggot like Rick Scott and his gang of thugs, is to cause citizens to lose confidence in the electoral process. Thereby democracy, and our Republic, is imperiled. Because if citizens are disallowed the fair expression of their ballot, they will resort to other less peaceful means.

Let the vote counting continue in Dade and Broward counties, unlike in 2000 when a Reeptard mob besieged the counting venue, e.g.

Steven Rosenfeld

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2018 Elections

Republican Goons Are Trying to Pull Another Brooks Brothers Riot in Florida’s Recount—But So Far They Can’t Get Inside the Door

Scott then, can shut his mutt mouth, and keep out of the Democratic process, as well as his goon brigade.

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Sonali Kolhatkar

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Election Integrity

Billionaires, Not Voters, Are Deciding Elections

AND:

Georgia Voter Purge Victim: “This Was a Strategy From Kemp”

Why Are So Many Hacks And Idiots Prepared To Give Billionaires A Pass?

Even as the Neolib media whores and hacks at the editorial board of The Denver Post  (Apr. 7, p. 9A)  cackled about Bernie Sanders's'  "platitudes about the billionaire class" , that class is running roughshod over our political process even as it dramatically expands inequality. Case in point: The Koch brothers (both raised by a Nazi nanny, as a point of historical fact) who have already plowed nearly a half billion bucks into the 2016 election in an effort to buy off anyone they can.

Despite that, memes that Sanders is "off base" and in "fantasy land" prevail. But then one must ask: What is in it for those that circulate such claptrap? Well, most of their boards (like the WSJ) are stocked with the same billionaire interests. In the WSJ case by clones and drones working for Rupert Murdoch.  Meanwhile, other billionaires like Peter G. Peterson confabulate front groups like 'Fix the debt' and other imitations in an effort to drastically cut or eliminate "entitlements".

Currently the top TV show depicting these reptiles is 'Billions' on Showtime, It features Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod as the psychotic,  billionaire hedge fund manager of Axe Capital. Axelrod has no morals or qualms and believes, like most of these vermin, that  he' doing "god's service" for capitalism by taking out marginal enterprises (like 'Yum Time' - producer of one of his famous childhood treats, 'ding doodles'). Thousands will lose their jobs, but so what? Someone has to clean out the 'pipes'! This is a common element of the billionaire class zeitgeist, that they are in fact performing a needed service to clean out unproductive companies 'clogging'  the capitalist realm, so the rest of it can work expeditiously. And too many media hacks buy into this codswallop.

This has actually been put forward in the financial press, namely the WSJ article 'The Young and the Economically Clueless' (Feb. 20-21, p. 9A) wherein the author (Daniel J. Arbess) writes:

"Both Democrats and some Republicans keep blaming it all on 'Wall Street', Bernie Sanders' all purpose bogeyman. Don't they realize that the financial markets are the lubricant of the entire economy - that Wall Street's capacity to provide liquidity and to broker capital is the lifeblood of the American economy?"

He then goes on to lacerate millennials for their "unfamiliarity with socialist economics" when this turd can't even make distinctions between socialist forms, and also is embracing a capitalist system that is unsustainable.

He also has the temerity to ask: "As for Bernie Sanders, what is his excuse for revanchist economics?"

Well, because the economic mutation on offer enables the minority wealthy class to plunder from working men and women even as they seek to slice and cut what few benefits - like Medicaid and Social Security - that remain, Hence, it was more than gratifying to behold an outspoken young woman in a Gainesville, FL 'Starbucks'  reaming out the maggot Florida guv Rick Scott for slicing her Medicaid-Obamacare benefits.  The young lady was fierce, eloquent and the take spot on, see e.g.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/video-woman-confronts-rick-scott-in-starbucks

This is the same slimeball, who when he was head of Columbia HCA,  relentlessly milked billions out of Medicare.

Back to the tripe that the billionaires are doing us all favors by "spreading liquidity" . Hardly, because the manner in which they do it wreaks more havoc than positive benefits  on Main Street- that's why 3 million in the middle class are being converted to plebes every year.

And parsing the line between fact and fiction, a la Bobby Axelrod? According to a recent TIME review ('Billions Continues to Reveal What's Really Wrong With Wall Street' by Rana Forhoohar, April 4, p. 21), well:

"Unfortunately, the real life drama of Main Street's subordination to Wall Street is getting worse. Experts including Adair Turner, the former head of financial regulation in the UK, estimates that only about 15 percent of all capital flows within America's financial system end up making their way into the real economy. The rest of that money just rotates around the high priced microcosm - enriching the 1 percent as they buy and sell existing assets to one another, bidding up their value while failing to invest in research, products, jobs or innovation".

And Axe? He's more like the typical hedge funder than not. As Forhoohar puts it, Wall Street's money men are more invested in "ding doodle -style deals than making long term investments".  Adding:

"The worry is that our market system has become like the snake that devours its own tail, That's certainly the story that 'Billions' tells'"

So much for the bullshit and bollocks that Sanders is living in la-la land and his supporters are "economically clueless". They are more clued in than the bloviating parade of financial hacks and the ubiquitous billionaire defenders who realize they are under attack for the first time in decades (actually since JFK) and don't like it one bit.