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tosh

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Tue Apr 24, 2012, 10:58 AM Apr 2012

As governor, Rick Scott still a work progress

As governor, Rick Scott still a work progress

By Steve Bousquet, Times Columnist
In Print: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/gubernatorial/article1226516.ece

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He's starting to get the hang of things, but he has long way to go.

That was evident again last week, when Scott visited an elementary school in suburban Jacksonville to triumphantly sign the state budget.

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The governor's staff selected Cunningham Creek Elementary in the village of Fruit Cove, a place of neatly manicured upper-middle-class subdivisions with idyllic names like Ivy Lakes and Julington Creek.

The setting could have been a Disney movie, but it was real.

What transpired was surreal to watch.

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As governor, Rick Scott still a work progress (Original Post) tosh Apr 2012 OP
Typo in title -- mispelled "wreck". nt eppur_se_muova Apr 2012 #1
Touche... tosh Apr 2012 #2
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