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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Governor pRick Scott Can't Even Get a Cup of Coffee at a Local Starbucks
http://gawker.com/florida-governor-rick-scott-cant-even-get-a-cup-of-coff-1769294087You cut Medicaid so I couldnt get Obamacare, Jennings shouts. Youre an asshole. You dont care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.
The two have a small back and forth as Scott attempts to remind the customer that hes created 1 million jobs. Where? Jennings responds.
As he leaves the cafewithout any coffeeJennings accuses Scott of denying women access to vital care, presumably because that is precisely what the governor did last month. He then says something unintelligible back to the customer before hurrying out of the store.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)republican politicians should be screamed at daily
Duval
(4,280 posts)Someone should send that girl a thank you note with flowers.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Needless to say, there were the comments on how's she sitting her poor ass in a Starbucks, but that was answered.
Also needless to say, the Governor and staff will go back to his office and pretend it never happened.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)but Governor Voldemort and other Republican politicians like him deserve every bit of public vitriol for the inhuman BS they pull and the lies they tell.
BOOM she laid it on him!! I wish I had been there.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)And like you, I wish I was there.
I'd've been cheering and whooping.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Florida is my state, so I know way too much about him. That bastard turned down transportation funds for my state, so they ended up going to another state!!!!!
lark
(23,156 posts)FL doesn't even cover up to the Federal Poverty Limit for Medicare, much less go over. They only cover people with incomes up to 29% of the FPL. So you can be technically indigent in our state and still get squat. He also just cut funds for Planned Parenthood, so he is truly the worst of the worst when it comes to governors and health care, especially for women.
He needs to be yelled at every time he emerges from his ratbastard lair in Tallahassee and from his home. Maybe he would resign. Sadly the Lt. Governor is probably just as bad. Then we would have to yell at him!
dchill
(38,532 posts)But he was REAL nice & friendly about it!
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)had to be cut and people would have to 'get over it.'
dchill
(38,532 posts)A Prince!
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)working as a manager for Lehman Bros. of Wall Street 2001-08 and the juicy executive stock option bonuses. Yuck..
dchill
(38,532 posts)Not to mention the 6 or 7 years as a host on Fox News. I lived in Ohio for the first 29 years of my life; now I live just across the state line in PA. PA sucks, but it can't hold a candle to the suckage of Ohio. For now, anyway.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)turned around somehow soon. When young I lived in Htgn., WV on the Ohio river and travelled to Columbus, Cincinnati, Oberlin and other places. Two good friends are from Pgh.
dchill
(38,532 posts)Never. Hotbed of sleazy reactionary sludge.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)months ago I listened to Michael Savage in the car a few times and couldn't believe the lies and hate, almost had to pull the over. It was some comfort when I read later that he's been banned from Britain for his mind & mouth since the early 2000s.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"...so we can subsidize more intelligent states who deserve it."
Sadly it's true in my state too. I don't get how it could possibly be a winning strategy to tell voters you want to take their Federal tax dollars and shove them up Obama's ass. Surely there are better uses for that money right here!
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)It will be a new era.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)uncivil. I have been blaming Trump and the repukes for this, starting w/ the Bozo who yelled "You lie" during the President's first State of the Union. I never would have believed that Bernie was behind it!
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)ordinary people who have been exploited from this predatory world that has sent into this country. In Florida, it doesn't matter if they are Democratic or Republican leaders. They have all followed a pattern that takes advantage of people.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)don't believe Bernie would accept or condone this kind of incivility. I just want us all to be careful comparing Bernie to Trump. Trump incites violence and anger. Bernie is offering a path forward w/ honor and civility.
P.S. I'm not a Bernie-first person, but I have great respect for the man.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,356 posts)she should be proud.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)That is a textbook example.
DebbieCDC
(2,543 posts)Bravo ma'am
florida08
(4,106 posts)Yeah I want to know where those million jobs are too. We're in Jax and don't see much of anything happening. I heard the south got some jobs but a million??? Thanks for posting. Made my day
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Oh that's wonderful. I'd love to by Cara her cup of coffee and a muffin as well if she'd like.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)He'll send one of his flunkies while he waits in the Suburban behind the dark tinted glass.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)The Koch's gopher. They send him out to do all the unpleasant political work to protect their fortunes.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts). . .from here on out, next time (if ever) they visit a Starbucks.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)after CU and all
Vinca
(50,304 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)That is EXACTLY how these America-hating right wingers should be treated in public. All thinking people should scorn these criminals. The "Starbucks Lady" should be an inspiration to us all to speak out when we have the chance to confront one of these scoundrels.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)sweet!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I'm so over all the sucking up to people in different positions of "power"...they need to be told off to their faces.
NJCher
(35,731 posts)F$& civility. She ran his gopher ass right out on the street and he didn't even get his coffee. She kicked him to the curb. Notice the body language of at least one of his aides when leaving? Head down, arms folded. They were ashamed, which tells you right then and there that they know what they are doing and they know it is wrong.
Cher
Zambero
(8,968 posts)A million says Rick Scott. A few questions come to mind:
1. What are federal taxes levied on those Florida jobs, and what portion of those revenues are redirected to ACA Medicaid expansion?
2. What is the sum total of those Medicaid total dollars that Florida makes available to other states because Scott refuses to allow citizens to utilize what the state has already paid for (I gather the answers to #1 and #2 would be identical(.
3. How many Florida citizens are currently deprived of needed health care because of decisions made by Scott and his legislative allies, given that there would have been no added cost to the state had Medicaid expansion be permitted?
klook
(12,166 posts)Voldemort gets his comeuppance!
hibbing
(10,109 posts)Look at him scamper away, love it.
Peace
gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)Good for her.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)K&R
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)Don't be afraid to speak up in public, by doing so it gives others more courage and freedom to do the same and that changes public opinion.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)madville
(7,412 posts)Where you can either vote for the Republican or the former-Republican-now-running-as-a-Democrat.
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)He should bet met like that everywhere.
Blue Dalek
(178 posts)Good for her!
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)guts and candor!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)This is so fantastic. I have to go watch it again.... and again.... and again. She should run for office, we need people like her.
compare and contrast:
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)a few years ago. He made all the little kids cry and had to leave after a few hours. I worked in a Collier County Public School at the time and everybody was talking about it, and laughing. Kiss the Babies and make them CRY.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)retread
(3,763 posts)scottie55
(1,400 posts)Who would gladly watch you die if they could benefit from it politically.
Selling the death of poor people to tea baggers to win elections.
Every Republican should be treated like this.
Bastards.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)n/t
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)I hope she doesn't suffer that fate. It takes a lot of guts to do what she did.
underpants
(182,879 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)I am disgusted and embarrassed that my state elected this Dick corrupt fucker twice.
packman
(16,296 posts)Second time Scott ran, my therapist (knee rehab) asked me if she should vote for Scott again. This nurse was a victim - a VICTIM - of Scott's pension looting in a hospital she had worked in and she should have been retired, but had to extend her work years because of him. I told her about his ripping off the government, looting pension funds and being a general-all-round ass. The following week I even gave her articles about his past. Last day in therapy she said she couldn't vote for a Dem and cast her vote for Scott.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)"It must be"
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)GAINESVILLE Cara Jennings, a longtime Lake Worth activist and a former city commissioner, was captured on video Tuesday berating Gov. Rick Scott at a coffee shop over the states handling of health care issues and calling him a curse word.
You cut Medicaid, so I couldnt get Obamacare, Jennings shouted at Scott as he approached the counter at the Starbucks store in downtown Gainesville. You dont care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.
Scott and a group of about five people walked into the coffee shop at about 5 p.m. Tuesday and left with a lecture but no coffee. A video of the exchange was captured on a cellphone by a patron and posted to YouTube, where it had been viewed more than 200,000 times as of Wednesday evening.
In Boca Raton on Wednesday for the ceremonial signing of a bill to support Israel, Scott said he had not seen the video and scoffed at the notion of meeting and speaking with Jennings.
more at link
jonks2746
(41 posts)And screw Scott. He fucked over Florida bigtime.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)These Republican Governors hide behind their Republican-controlled state legislatures and act like they are holier than everyone else. We need to have more ordinary people confront these assklowns on a daily basis and show them for what they are, cowards and shitheads!!
kairos12
(12,872 posts)Nyan
(1,192 posts)Rick Scott and 12 other repug governors who refused ACA shouldn't be able to walk around without being shamed.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)The felons in federal lockup with whom he should be sharing his morning coffee.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Well maybe not but I like to think so
KPN
(15,650 posts)The pitchforks are coming.
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)I loved it when she shut down that Scott staffer who tried to run interference for Scott. It was a thing of beauty.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)legs? Imagine the conversation that took place in his limo after that.