Category: Governor

Nov 20, 2015 10:14 AM

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GOP governors, including Rick Scott, take cue from Obama on how to push policy

By Rachael Baye
Center for Public Integrity
Political organizations tied to Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner are diverging from the typical so-called leadership PACs used by federal lawmakers and some governors to amass power because they are not just giving campaign contributions to like-minded legislators. Instead they are pushing the governors’ legislative agendas with public campaigns far removed from the campaign trail.
Nov 4, 2015 5:52 AM

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Gov. Rick Scott won’t release 2014 tax return or info about his blind trust

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Amid news of Gov. Rick Scott’s investment in a company that’s seeking to build a controversial, $3-billion natural gas pipeline in north Florida, he won’t make public his 2014 federal income tax return.
Oct 13, 2015 5:14 AM

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Judge: Pipeline foes can’t raise Gov. Scott’s alleged conflict of interest

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Tallahassee administrative judge has ruled that environmental opponents of the proposed Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline cannot raise allegations that Gov. Rick Scott has a financial conflict of interest in the project.
Sep 30, 2015 5:10 AM

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Pipeline company to judge: Evidence of Gov. Scott’s investment in us ‘irrelevant’

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Lawyers for a company that wants to build a natural gas pipeline in north Florida have told a judge that environmental opponents should be blocked from “presenting evidence or argument” about Gov. Rick Scott’s financial interest in the company.
Sep 1, 2015 12:59 AM

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Pipeline foes ask DEP to deny key permit; Cite ‘conflict of interest’ by Gov. Scott

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Opponents of a proposed natural gas pipeline in North Florida are asking Florida regulators to reject the project, citing both dangers to the environment and a “conflict of interest” by the regulators’ boss, Gov. Rick Scott.
Aug 19, 2015 5:37 AM

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You don’t need X-ray vision to see through Gov. Rick Scott’s blind trust

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Rick Scott keeps his $127.8 million stock portfolio in a blind trust, but the trust isn’t doing its job of preventing him from having knowledge or control of his investments. The blind trust keeps the governor’s assets out of sight of the public, but fails to blind him to his investments.