Rick Scott says he’s been asked to attend Romney events
by George Bennett | June 22nd, 2012LAKE BUENA VISTA — Gov. Rick Scott, plagued by high disapproval ratings, has not appeared with Mitt Romney at any campaign events in Florida, fueling speculation the Romney campaign doesn’t want him to be seen with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
During a brief q-and-a with reporters today, Scott was asked if Romney has asked him to campaign with him.
“They’ve asked me to go to things, but it’s always been last-minute for me,” Scott said.
A Romney campaign source confirmed Scott’s account.
Scott spoke briefly to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference here. He didn’t touch on his efforts to remove non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls, which critics have said risks mistakenly purging minorities who tend to vote Democratic.
“There’s no voter purge here,” Scott said in response to a reporter’s question afterward. Because the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t cooperated, Scott said the state has only looked at a “very small sample” of voters.
“We found that non-U.S. citizens have registered to vote in our state and voted in our elections. Now, I don’t want anybody, any U.S. citizen’s vote, to be diluted by a non-U.S. citizen,” Scott said.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Romney:
Hey Gov Scott,
We need your help in 2012! Can you please be at the Starbucks on Okeechobee Boulevard in WPB? The bathroom floor really needs scrubbing. Please be there all day for the next 6 months.
Thxbye,
Mitt Romney
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:39 pm
By the way,
Allen West’s voting record scored by the League of Conservation Voters?
11%.
Yes, 11%.
But hey, what’s the environment to Floridians anyway? It’s not like we really care about the oceans, the Gulf, the Everglades, endangered species, endangered habitats or anything like that, right?
VOTE.
HIM.
OUT.
Vote for Clean House Challenge winner Patrick Murphy instead in FL-18!
http://cleanhouse.lcv.org/winners.php
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:37 pm
I find it incredible that both Romney and Scott who hate the Hispanics appeared before this Latino conference. OF course everything they said was a lie, but they had no choice but to lie. The truth is that they really want to exterminate or deport all the Hispanics.
IT is like a Nazi giving a speech before a Jewish audience. He would not admit that Hitler did not finish the job so he would try to say sweet things not to get the people too upset.
June 22nd, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Hey, Cohen,
I think you’ll find that Obama has actually deported more Hispancis and others than any administration in the modern era.
So would you also say that Obama is like a Nazi in fact and practice, not merely in your supposed version of Romney’s motives and speech?
Yeah … didn’t think so.
June 22nd, 2012 at 10:47 pm
Romney believes that corporations are PEOPLE. Sounds like Soylent Green! Only trouble is, corporations can’t be ground up and used for food. Romney made his dog ride on the ROOF of his car. Poor judgement about a member of his family = poor judgement being President. Romney like all GOP/Teabaggers represents the interests of the rich and the rich alone. Anyone who is not a millionaire who votes for the GOP/Teabagger party votes against their own best interests! Since Reagan, the GOP has practically destroyed the middle class and has lowered the American standard of living. Their goal is to destroy the middle class and turn America into a country for the wealthy only! WAKE UP AMERICA!
June 29th, 2012 at 7:29 am
Gov. Scott is doing a fine job getting our state back on track. Romney, if elected will have the same opportunity. We need politicians that can reign in government spending. wake up people, we are the land of the free, not the land of the free ride. Too many Americans are asking what this country can do for them rather than what they can do for their country. Somebody said that before, and it was a democrat! Time to help yourself instead of looking for someone to help you1