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Supping with the new chief at $25,000 a pop
By Daniel Ruth, Times correspondent
In Print: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
...To be sure, the $25,000 candlelight chow line — attended by the state's oligarchs — may suggest while access to the new governor cannot be bought, it can be had on a four-year lease.
In a rare moment of candor, perhaps because Scott had made his remarks in an event closed to the public and the press, the newly minted governor-elect recently told a group of the state's business intelligentsia that "I will always have more in common with you than any other politician."
Are you beginning to get an inkling this chap has all the populist leanings of King George III?
If you are a schoolteacher, or a corrections officer, or a faceless public employee, and the incoming Lord Voldemort of Tallahassee has just told a room full of raised-pinkie swells he will always have their best interests at heart, you have to be thinking you are going to have less job security than a joke writer for the Taliban.
But just think what a grand time everyone else will have at Scott's invitation-only banquet.
While decrying the insidious influence of special interests and Republican Party leaders for the sad state of Florida's financial affairs while he was on the hustings, Scott has decided to play spin the checkbook with a host of special interests, GOP mandarins and former Tallahassee movers and shakers now that he is moving into the Governor's Mansion.
In some respects, Scott's governorship might be best described as Jeb Bush Junta 2.0. ...
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