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Gov. Scott and GE: Jobs, incentives and investments in Scott’s oil & gas partnerships
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By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week that GE Oil & Gas would open a $50 million manufacturing facility in Jacksonville he talked about how it would create 500 new jobs for Florida. Not mentioned in the hoopla: how another division of General Electric has invested hundreds of millions of dollars…
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Gov. Scott, his investments and the ‘temptation to dishonor’
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org When Gov. Rick Scott set up his first blind trust in April 2011, his lawyers asked Florida’s ethics commission whether he had any conflicts of interest because of his investments in companies doing business in Florida. Topping their list of concern was Texas-based Energy Transfer Equity…
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Gov. Scott had stake in pipeline firm whose $3 billion venture he and his appointees backed
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org Shortly after Gov. Rick Scott was elected, a Florida Power & Light executive on his transition team pitched the idea of building a major new natural gas pipeline. Last year, Scott signed bills to speed up permitting for the project and the Public Service Commission approved its construction. Not known at…
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As Republicans move to scrap blind trusts, Democrat agriculture chief Nikki Fried launches one
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org After years of embarrassing news about mega-wealthy former Gov. Rick Scott’s financial conflicts of interest, state Republicans in the House and Senate are pushing bills to repeal Florida’s controversial qualified blind trust statute. But that won’t affect the new blind trust quietly set up by new Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and…