Scott apologizes for handling of Bailey's ouster
TAMPA Florida Gov. Rick Scott apologized Thursday for the way he forced out the state's top cop, but he maintained he did nothing wrong even as other Republican elected officials continued to call for additional investigations into how it was handled..
During an annual visit Thursday to the Florida State Fair usually reserved for photo-ops among the corn dog stands and horse stables, Scott and the three elected members of the state Cabinet all Republicans spent more than an hour discussing how state agency officials should be hired and fired in the future.
It was there that Scott briefly acknowledged he mishandled the ouster of Gerald Bailey, the commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
"While I wanted to bring in new leadership at FDLE as we transitioned into a second term in office, it is clear, in hindsight, that I could have handled it better," he said.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-florida-cabinet-fdle-bailey-20150205-story.html