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Marco Rubio Gets Caught Filling A Cookie Jar With Links To "Groundswell"

Reunited, And It Feels So Good

Well this is an interesting development.

Marco Rubio, the once so-called Republican savior on immigration reform, has been caught filling the cookie jar of the opposition to.......immigration reform. 

From The Center for Public Integrity:

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made a five-figure contribution to a prominent super PAC ahead of a push to court conservative support of his contentious immigration reform proposal, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of documents filed today with the Federal Election Commission.

Rubio’s donation of $30,000 on March 28 came from his leadership PAC and went to Senate Conservatives Action. That’s a super PAC connected with former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Rubio’s one-time mentor who has clashed with the potential 2016 GOP presidential hopeful over the immigration bill.

It is also linked to the Senate Conservatives Fund, which functioned as DeMint’s leadership PAC until he announced plans to resign from the U.S. Senate and become the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation last December.

I've said from the beginning that I suspected Rubio was working both sides of the fence, as it were, when it came to immigration. I always thought that he was trying to look like the voice of reason on reform, and tryng to appeal both sides of his party, while secretly working to derail any immigration reform before it came to fruition. His last roadblock was saying under no circumstances would gay people be granted green cards. That alone was a deal breaker.

Conservatives in general, and Jim DeMint in particular, have been extremely vocal in their opposition to any kind of immigration reform, and "clashes" between Rubio and his old buddy DeMint got a lot of media coverage. Whether those disagreements were real or fiction is beside the point now, to the tune of $30,000.

Adding to the mess is what happens when you connect the dots and follow the money to the Heritage Foundation, where DeMint now runs the show.

Last week, David Corn over at Mother Jones broke the story of Groundswell, a group of conservatives, politicians, and right-wing bloggers who have banded together and hold secret weekly meetings for the sole purpose of taking down President Obama and all he stands for, and fighting the Republican establishment and Karl Rove, while destroying the country at the same time.

Among the "big names" in the propaganda club are Florida's former Congressional nut bag Allen West, John Bolton, the former UN ambassador; Frank Gaffney, Ken Blackwell and Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council; members of Judicial Watch; the Independent Women's Forum; and True the Vote. They also have access to the Republican leadership in Washington, who fear them and potential Tea Party primaries enough to do their bidding. 

And saving the "worst" for last is Ginni Thomas, the drunk-dialing wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. When we last heard from Ginni, she was busy trying to kill health care reform while profiting from it at about the same time her husband was busy not recusing himself from ruling on the health care law. While most of us see this as a huge conflict of interest, the Thomas family sees it as business as usual. Or, in other words, the family business.

This little group is all about pushing the country to the extreme right, using faux scandals like Benghazi, and the IRS doing it's actual job, while opposing things like immigration and the right to vote for anyone who isn't of the mindset of Club Groundswell. It also doesn't hurt that they have all the money they could possibly want at their disposal thanks to that other little Supreme Court case: Citizens United. (Again, no conflict there, right Ginni?)

Also in the mix? The Heritage Foundation, and its ties to the recent generosity of Marco Rubio. To see how the group operates through groups including the Heritage Foundation, read more here at Mother Jones. (I'll be writing more about Groundswell in Florida later.)

So while it certainly wouldn't be a surprise any more than discovering that Marco really isn't all that serious about immigration reform due to the lack of any potential gain of brown GOP voters, it also wouldn't be a stretch to assume that he's also taking part in the deception that is Groundswell.

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Is Grade Changer Bennett Doing A "Great Job" For Scott Towards Privatizing Florida Schools? (Updated)

Tony Bennett Gets An "F" In Playing Politics With Education

(Updated Below: Bennett to resign.)

On Monday, a report from the Associated Press indicated that emails obtained from then Indiana Schools Chief Tony Bennett showed that he changed the school grade for a charter school run by a prominent Republican donor from a "C" to an "A." Bennett was later defeated by a Democrat and left Indiana soon after. Naturally, Bennett was then picked by Florida Governor Rick Scott to take charge of Florida schools.

Now that the Indiana grade change details have been made public, many are calling for Bennett to step down. Unfortunately, after saying he hadn't seen the reports, Rick Scott responded to this latest scandal with much the same response he gives all the scandals coming from his office: "He's doing a great job."

Note that Scott had the same kind words for his secretary of the Department of Children and Families when he resigned due to the deaths of several children on his watch:

In his place, Scott named DCF’s regional managing director for the southern district, Esther Jacobo, as interim DCF secretary.

“David did a great job in leading the state’s top child protection agency and his service is deeply appreciated. I have no doubt that Esther will increase accountability in the department and enhance child protective services in order to protect the most vulnerable among us,” Scott said.

Since then, two more children have died.

Should we be surprised that Scott is standing by Tony Bennett? Probably not, and for more reasons than one. Of course Scott takes no blame when things go wrong under his direction, but the fact that Bennett allegedly changed grades for political reasons (although Bennett claims that isn't the case) may be exactly why Scott says he's doing a great job. Perhaps that's by design, and exactly what Scott intended.

An article at the Indianapolis Star website says that the grade changes there set schools up for state takeover:

In a textbook exercise in Orwellianism, Bennett, now the Florida schools chief, defended his damage-control frenzy by saying the rating apparatus as a whole was in jeopardy.

Educators, from those with traditional public schools to those operating charters to those teaching teachers in universities, already had warned him about A-F. But they saw the jeopardy the other way around: It was and is a blunt instrument that treats parents choosing schools like shoppers for backpacks. And it sets schools up for state takeover, and management by private businesses with political connections, without giving them and their communities a fair chance to explain their numbers and describe their needs. It tends to financially reward the affluent.

Sound familiar?

Though the Florida Parent Trigger push has gone down in defeat in the legislature two years in a row, the powers that be are still hard at work trying to propel Florida schools into privatization. Former Gov. Jeb Bush and his nationwide efforts with his Foundation for Florida's Future, along with Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst and California-based Parent Revolution have gone to great lengths to find other ways when legislation fails in spite of deception tactics like the "Debunking Parent Empowerment Myths" propaganda they deployed earlier this year. 

There are big profits to be gained from privatization in spite of the evidence that many charter schools in Florida have had not only bad academic failures, but financial accountability problems, and weighting and boosting grades for private schools isn't new either.

Despite calls from Democrats for Bennett's resignation, some media outlets have asked if this is really a "big deal." The Indianapolis Star article also addresses this issue in what happened in Indiana:

When people whipped money in the 2012 election, stunning journalists who had swallowed Bennett’s Kool-Aid and had presumed his easy re-election, the vanquished golden boy of the national conservative school crusade opined that he had been too busy rescuing our children to devote sufficient time to politics. His sponsor, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels, suggested that illegal campaigning by unionized teachers had derailed vitally needed reform.

Compare that to Rick Scott's statement of support for Bennett today:

"He is very focused on accountability. He is very focused on making sure we have the number one school system in the country." 

Coming from the governor who claimed he was working to do the same while actually defunding public education leaves one with more than just a little skepticism.

While Scott hasn't "directly answered" the question of whether Bennett's job is secure, he has a political dilemma of his own to face in his next move. He's placed Florida families and education squarely in his reelection cross-hairs, but voters have seen through his actual treatment of both, and parents are in no mood for another "parent trigger" style privatization maneuver.

If Rick Scott truly were interested in giving Florida's children a chance at a "world class education," he wouldn't be playing politics with them year after year, and he wouldn't have put Tony Bennett and his questionable past with Indiana schools in charge of Florida schools in the first place.

UPDATED:

From the AP, via TBO:

A Florida education official says the state's education commissioner will resign because of allegations he changed a charter school's grade during his previous job as Indiana's school chief.

The official told The Associated Press of Tony Bennett's resignation on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to disclose the information before a formal announcement.

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No, It's Rick Scott Who Owes Floridians An Apology, And Then Some

Rick Scott issued a press release today saying that Jesse Jackson should apologize to Floridans for statements he made about the Florida Stand Your Ground law:

Today, Governor Rick Scott released the following statement in response to remarks from Jesse Jackson who yesterday called Florida “the Selma of our time.” Jacksonhas [sic] also referred to Florida as the “Apartheid State.” 

Governor Rick Scott said, “Jesse Jackson owes every Floridian an apology for his reckless and divisive comments. It is unfortunate that he would come to Florida to insult Floridians and divide our state at a time when we are striving for unity and healing.  Floridians are a strong, resilient people. We are fortunate to live in a great state where all Floridians enjoy opportunities to get a great job and a world-class education.”

Really? So Rick Scott, whose response to the need to make changes to a terribly flawed law that allowed George Zimmerman to shoot and kill an unarmed black teenager merely because he thought he looked suspicious, was essentially telling people to just "pray," and pull the trigger maybe? thinks Jackson owes people an apology?

Rick Scott? The worst governor in the country? The man whose approval ratings (if you can really call them that) have never seen the light of day, who is giving the state's assets away to the highest bidder, or the biggest campaign donor, while killing safety nets, education, the environment, orchestrating voter suppression, streamlining faster executions with less appeal time, attempting to privatize prisons and schools, saying "no" to high-speed rail plans that were years in the making, the money it would have brought the state and jobs, just because President Obama offered them, spent a good deal of his career trying to kill health care reform, (and still at it) led a company that set the record for Medicare fraud (a true textbook case) deleted public records while claiming transparency, hires cronies with no experience who can't do their jobs, many of whom have left or been forced to leave in scandal, (including his Lt. Governor who the "Jobs Governor" still hasn't gotten around to replacing) and dozens of other things I've left out on a list much too long for this blog post?

He says someone else owes Floridians an apology? 

Well now we can add another activity to Rick Scott's job description: Trolling Floridians while he rubs our noses in his incompetence and lack of humanity.

 

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Florida Democrat Chris Smith Launches Stand Your Ground Website

Florida's Democratic Senate Leader Chris Smith has launched a Florida Stand Your Ground website in his effort to get lawmakers to change the law that allowed George Zimmerman to walk away after shooting and killing Tayvon Martin. Smith called for the law to be changed as early as last year, long before the trial.

Rick Scott has refused to call a special session to make any changes in the law, and Republican legislators have also said there's no need to do anything about the law. A task force Scott put together to investigate the law found that it was just fine the way it was, even though the task force was made up of lawmakers who either wrote the legislation, sponsored it, and/or were pro-gun in general.

Smith says this is a first step:

“This is how we begin the discussion, by informing the people,” said Senator Smith. “The website is a one-stop information center for anyone who wants to know more about the law, what it does, how it’s being misused, and the proposed changes to fix its dangerous flaws.”

Student activists, the Dream Defenders, have been staging a SYG sit-in at the Capitol for several weeks. Scott finally met with them last week after avoiding his office during their stay, but offered a day of prayer instead of a special session.

The protesters have been joined by Harry Belafonte and Jesse Jackson among others, and members have gained support in several national media appearances. This week they began their own "special session" with Jackson, and have vowed to stay on in Tallahassee. 

The website is here.

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Marco Rubio: Who Needs Health Care? Just Have A Coke And A Smile!

Even though his own party told him it was a dumb idea and to give it a rest, Marco Rubio insisted once again today that he wants to shut the government down unless Obamacare is defunded. He and other Tea Party members Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) provided more political theater today to a collective yawn in the Senate.

In spite of the advice given to hm by true die hard obstructionist blowhards like GOP Senators Tom Coburn, Richard Burr, John McCain, Richard Shelby, and Reps. Tom Cole and Peter King not to, he doubled down on the dumb for all to see.

Because dumb is what he does so well.

He even penned a diary at the wing nut conservative blog Red State ahead of his performance and compared the Affordable Care Act to New Coke, calling it "doubling down on a mistake" before having to return to the original formula. Because having to choose between bankruptcy, feeding your children, or health care....was working so well before?

Yes. That's logic on planet Rubio. Real Americans would rather die than get affordable health care. That's freedom after all, right?

He even began his weighty blog tome by writing: "I didn’t come to Washington to shut down the federal government." Really?

Actually, that's exactly what Rubio did, as I wrote back  in 2010, when he was running for the Senate, and said this:

"Perhaps the most stimulative thing they [Washington] can do right now is take a two year recess or something.”

Back then, the only way to fix the economy was by shutting down the government for two years.  In fact, it's on video:

 

As you can see, Rubio was giving the same speech back in 2010 as he is now. He just switches out terms like "job creators" with "Obamacare" depending on the subject matter. He only has the one script.

All those job creators who got the big tax cuts created jobs hand over fist too, just like Rubio and his party predicted! Also, pigs replaced airliners and were free to move about the country when they sprouted wings.

So while saying it was ridiculous to double down on a bad idea like the Affordable Care Act, Rubio doubled down on his idiotic New Coke analogy on C-Span, and proceeded to spin his tiresome tall tale on what a disaster affordable health care is.

It's his last gasp of desperation, because like everyone else, he knows that the ACA is working, and people like it. But instead of washing down his lies with a bottle of water, this time he's telling you just to have a Coke and a smile.

Who needs health insurance? 

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Rick Scott Still Has Time To Urge Republicans To Expand Medicaid, So Why Won't He?

The Obama Administration has reached out to lawmakers in Florida telling them it's not to late to expand Medicaid, and again has urged them to do so:

In a hastily arranged news conference, Paul Dioguardi, director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, highlighted the state residents with the most to lose if Florida does not expand eligibility for the Medicaid program:

The 1 million people who would not qualify for Medicaid – yet would be too poor to qualify for federal subsidies to help purchase insurance coverage on the online market exchange.

The federal health care law, assuming states would increase the number of people eligible for Medicaid, says only people who make at least the federal poverty level can qualify for help buying coverage. Those who make less than the poverty level? They’re out of luck.

“That’s a group that will be stuck in the middle without access to coverage,” said Dioguardi.

Republicans in the Florida legislature have rejected plans to expand Medicaid in spite of the fact that Gov. Rick Scott claimed to be in favor of it after he realized he had no choice. Since then, he's had those same lawmakers do his dirty work for him by blocking any chance at expansion.

This is another chance for him to step up and do the right thing by pushing lawmakers toward expansion.

Dioguardi said officials remain “encouraged” by the ongoing debate about expansion, as well as its support from Gov. Rick Scott.

“There is no deadline from our perspective,” he said. “Anytime the state would like to accept the expanded Medicaid, they’re welcome to do that.”

Since the legislature rejected expansion, Scott has never spoken of it again.

Scott's new campaign sales pitch revolves around "helping Florida's families." Making sure that families who are unable to get access to affordable health care is one of the most basic needs that could be met and would improve their lives in so many ways.

If he truly means what he says about helping them, it's time for Scott to back up his claims. He can say he favors Medicaid expansion all he wants. But his silence tells the real story.

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Rick Scott Goes AWOL

Rick Scott avoided SYG protesters and the capitol as long as he could last week, only to meet with the Dream Defenders to tell them he favors the shoot-to-kill Stand Your Ground law and won't lift a finger to change it by calling a special session.

Then he told everyone to "just pray."

Then yesterday, he sent his juvenile justice secretary, Wansley Walters, to meet with the protesters to basically tell them the same thing, along with a few other things that have nothing to do with SYG.

Sadly for Scott, the Dream Defenders are still there, and they're not going anywhere. So Scott has fallen back on his original plan:

He's gone AWOL:

Four hundred miles from sit-in protesters at his office in Tallahassee, Gov. Rick Scott met with some mayors and Palm Beach County commissioners here today and said he’s not planning to return to his office in the capitol this week.

“I mean, I cover the state, I travel the state. I’m there (in Tallahassee) more during the session,” Scott said outside the Palm Beach Cafe after a meeting with Mayors Jeri Muoio of West Palm Beach, Bert Premuroso of Palm Beach Gardens and Pam Triolo of Lake Worth and Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie of Boca Raton.

Asked when he expects to be back in his Tallahassee office, Scott said, “Probably next week sometime.”

"Probably" being the operative word.

He's not the only one going AWOL. People all over the country are planning to boycott Florida, it's orange juice and other products, and it's theme parks, because of not just the shoot-your-witness-and-get-away-with-murder SYG law, but because of the state's lax gun regulations and high numbers of guns in the state, period. 

Add to the impending absence of tourists to the state, entertainers now say they will no longer play here until the law is changed. It began with Stevie Wonder, who said he would stay away not just from Florida, but all states that have SYG laws. Now many more may be joining him in the boycott:

"Sources close to the Stevie Wonder camp," tell  American Urban Radio Networks that a bunch of other A-list artists are supporting Wonder's call to repeal the "Stand Your Ground" law that played a role in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case, though it's not clear from the report whether they also intend to boycott Fla venues until the law is changed.

The performers: Mary Mary, Eddie Levert, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Usher, Pattie Labelle, Kanye West, Mary J. Trey Songz, Jay Z, Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Joe, Will I AM, Keyshia Cole, Young Jeezy, Erykah Badu, Wale, Frankie Beverly, and Parliament.

Protests took place all over the state this past weekend, with more in the works, and the Dream Defenders at the Capitol are gaining allies and adding to their numbers.

Yet Rick Scott's only plan so far has been to ignore it all, and blow it all off by  merely saying this:

“What people ought to address is that we lost a 17-year-old young man in this state. That’s a tragedy,” Scott said. “I mean, think about his parents. I’ve got daughters, I have a grandson, I have more on the way. I would hate to lose one of them…What we ought to be thinking about is we ought to mourn Travyon Martin’s loss, we ought to bring our state back together and help people get back to work and get a great education.”

Floridians agree, and they've expressed how they want to do that. Get rid of the law that allowed Trayvon Martin's killer to walk away without consequences.

Unless he plans to "govern" from his private plane for the remainder of his term, Scott's going to have to answer the call of voters and others around the country and get rid of Stand Your Ground.

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Rick Scott's Silent Scream

Hey, remember back in 2012 when Rick Scott was so confident he would be a shoo-in for reelection that he said there would be no need for him to dump his own millions into his campaign like last time because he was just so darn awesome at his job?

If not, allow me to refresh your memory:

"I won't have to," Scott said, adding: "I'm running for re-election. I like this job. This is the best job you can imagine. … In this job, if you care about anybody's family in this state, you can have a positive impact.

Well, a little over a year later, Scott realizes he has had quite an impact on the state's "families" and it's hit them so hard that he now plans to go ahead and kick in at least $25 million towards his reelection campaign after all. He's going to need every dime, and then some, if he thinks he's going to convince voters that in spite of reality smacking them in the face, he's really good for them.

In other words, some high-priced lying is in order.

In an article published this morning by the National Review, Governor Scott is quoted as saying:

 ”I will have $25 million in the bank by the end of the year and will use it in early 2014 to define my opponent.”

Oh, so he's really just going to use all that cash to "define his opponent" and this opponent is likely he who shall not be named: Charlie Crist? OK. Gotcha.' Also, good luck with that.

Here's one problem. The RPOF has been trying to "define" Crist for months now and they're running out of what they see as amusing little "Crist-ory" anecdotes, and unless you're somewhat of a political junkie, you've probably never seen them. Even if the general public had seen them, they would have noticed that most of their complaints about Crist boomerang. Nearly every charge they throw at Charlie comes back and lands in their laps, because much of the subject matter occurred on their watch when he was "their" guy.

Fail.

Another problem is that no matter how he tries to "define his opponent," Rick Scott's actions have already "defined" him in the eyes of Floridians, and it ain't pretty. He's a disaster, and his "impact" on Florida families has been devastating. Voters lived with Crist as a governor, and they've now lived a few years with Scott at the helm. Regardless of how they may feel about Crist, they're painfully aware that Scott is by far the worst governor they've ever had. For that matter, he's set records nationwide with that title.

But hey, what the heck Scott. Feel free to throw millions of your own money away trying to convince Floridians that you're really just a great guy. They won't buy it, but they may enjoy watching you do it.

For once, the money you're throwing away won't be theirs.

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Failed State

Today's digest of disasters brought to you by Rick Scott:

Same Question, Different Day:

He tried to "pray away the protesters" but the Dream Defenders have vowed to stay in Tallahassee until Rick Scott calls a special session to deal with the Stand Your Ground laws. Today he dispatched his juvenile justice secretary, Wansley Walters, to meet with the protesters, now in their sixth day in the Capitol. Prior to the meeting Walters said this:

"More than anything, I just want to listen to them, hear their specific concerns, see what we can do to address them, answer them, follow up on them."

Apparently she missed the part where they told Scott what their concerns were, which he said "no" to, and then offered his "divine alternative."

Meanwhile, Dream Defenders Gain Allies 

Minority Voter Suppression + Stand Your Ground = Electoral Trouble For Tricky Ricky

Will the Stand Your Ground controversy hurt Scott's reelection chances? Some say yes, just as his trying to suppress minority voters backfired. But one Supreme Court ruling later, and reports say he'll be back to purging the voter rolls soon. Floridians will be watching. Democrats see the odds of replacing Rick Scott with one of their own in 2014 as possibly the best chance for a Democratic governor in years.

Justice Department Sues State Of Florida Over "Warehousing" Of Children With Disabilities In Nursing Homes

Scott Lowers The Bar For His "Great Job!" Endorsements:

David Wilkins, Florida’s top child welfare and social service administrator, resigned Thursday amid an escalating scandal over the recent deaths of four small children who had a history of involvement with child abuse investigators.

“David did a great job in leading the state’s top child protection agency and his service is deeply appreciated,” Scott said.

I don't want to know what one would have to do before Scott would draw the line on his "doing a great job" criteria...

A Laundry List Of Bad Governing, Or the Lack Thereof:

Dozier School for Boys and Common Core Controversy added to the resignation of the DCF Rick Scott "Great job!" award recipient (above) and Scott's nine day "flee the interview" with Dream Defenders protest in Tallahassee. 

Scott Uses School Students And Education As Political Football, Again:

Scott weighing the benefit to his political career with that of the potential anger of Jeb Bush, education privatization profiteer extraordinaire. 

Everglades In Dire Need Of Intervention From Scott 

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There was a time when protecting and preserving Florida's natural treasures was a proud piece of our state's public policy. Governors, legislative leaders and everyday Floridians all joined to support an Preservation 2000, to ensure that the woods and waters that make Florida so special would be around for generations.

Then the Great Recession hit, and Gov. Rick Scott took office, and the stewardship of Florida's environment suddenly was deemed a budgetary inconvenience. 

Join the coalition of more than 4,000 individual volunteers and 300 conservation and civic organizations from across the state working to put the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment on the November 2014 ballot.  

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Trayvon Martin's Parents, On President Obama's Speech: "A Beautiful Tribute"

Trayvon Martin's parents released ths statement on President Obama's speech earlier today:

"We are deeply honored and moved that President Obama took the time to speak publicly and at length about our son, Trayvon," Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin said in the statement. "The president’s comments give us great strength at this time. We are thankful for President Obama’s and Michelle’s prayers, and we ask for your prayers as well as we continue to move forward."

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