As Republican Rick Scott airs a TV campaign hoping to link Democrat Alex Sink to President Obama, we thought we’d post this video from the 2008 campaign trail that shows Obama’s own success using the “Let’s Get to Work” slogan.

(Obama also used the expression when he signed the stimulus and during this speech in California).

Scott is using the same phrase as the motto for his campaign.

The political committee set up to help Republican Rick Scott avoid state spending caps in his gubernatorial race will air $1.5 million in television ads starting Friday, The Palm Beach Post has learned.

Nearly $1 million will be spent in the Tampa and Orlando markets, with another $165,000 in West Palm Beach.

Scott’s own campaign already has spent $16.1 million on television alone, which means he’s approaching the $29.4 million cap under state law. If Scott exceeds the cap, his opponents, like fellow Republican Bill McCollum, will get a dollar-for-dollar match from Florida taxpayers. Scott told reporters last week that the “Let’s Get to Work” political committee was being set up to help him avoid the spending cap.

McCollum, who has spent $1.9 million on television, has a pair of so-called 527 groups supporting him. Alliance for America has invested $1.9 million in TV spots and the Florida First Initiative has spent another $1.9 million.

Meanwhile, Scott’s out-of-nowhere, self-funded campaign is ruffling some feathers in state GOP circles. First was this ambush at the state party meetings last week.

Now, a pair of McCollum supporters — Washington County Republican Chairwoman Jennifer Bau and Gulf County Republican state committeeman Allen Cox — are circulating a letter complaining that Scott’s campaign staff “verbally and physically assaulted” Bau and another Republican during a recent meeting in her Panhandle county.