Fact-checking Gov. Rick Scott’s exchange with Starbucks heckler

[steve2470]

(note: I'm not agreeing with this article but thought it of interest to DU)

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article70374887.html

BY AMY SHERMAN AND JOSHUA GILLIN
PolitiFact Florida

It starts like a joke — Gov. Rick Scott walks into a Gainesville Starbucks — but one patron wasn’t laughing.

Scott stopped in at the coffee chain for a cup Tuesday after touring the recently opened factory and headquarters for biopharmaceutical company Nanotherapeutics. Cara Jennings, a former Lake Worth city commissioner, saw Scott in the downtown store and ripped into him, from her seat, over health insurance and cuts to women’s health services, and calling him an expletive.

Her emotional rant went viral over the next 24 hours, racking up more than 371,000 YouTube views and airing on national television.

“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Jennings yelled. “You are an a-----e! You don’t care about working people.... You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”

More at link

[Tony_FLADEM]

1. All these things she said are true

but people knew this and he still managed to get elected twice.

She should go down to South Florida and yell at the people who couldn't bother to vote in 2010 and 2014.

[steve2470]

2. she's a former Lake Worth (Palm Beach Co.) city commissioner

I imagine she did some yelling down there, to little avail. She's also listed as an activist here: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/cara-jennings-lake-worth-activist-confronts-gov-sc/nqzWj/