Bob McKnight

"With the Sunshine State having nationally recognized visionaries, with integrity, like Governors Collins, Askew, Graham, Chiles and Bush, the last 8 years of Rick Scott have been a real wasted opportunity for Florida." In the 8 years of service to the people of Florida, to his credit, Governor Scott kept a very visible and measurable goal---jobs, jobs, jobs. He was ironically aided by the recession he inherited, so there was little movement expected but up. Scott promised

Governor Rick Scott is consistent. He has always advocated for generating jobs--of any kind and under any circumstances. Many of us have encouraged him to shift his passion more to high value jobs, which require an improving public education system. He apparently disagrees since he has supported cutting funding for public schools by diverting those few public dollars to private schools. That has hurt his effort to generate high value jobs, but he does not seem to understa