Convicted Teapublican fraudster runs for governor
Harry Hope
Scott bills himself as a "conservative outsider" on his campaign Web
site, and echoes this theme in the spot, scheduled to begin airing
state-wide on Thursday.
He also touts his credentials as a businessman, an aspect of his past
that has gotten him in trouble with the law.
Towards the end of his decade-long tenure as CEO of Hospital
Corporation of America, a for-profit chain of health care facilities,
Scott in 2003 plead guilty to a series of criminal charges worth $1.7
billion in fines.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002243.html
The Justice Department called it the "largest health care fraud case
in US history." http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm
Last year he founded Conservatives for Patients Rights, a front group
that utilized grassroots tactics and spent millions of dollars to
oppose President Obama's health reform legislation.
The group hired as its communications arm a public relations firm that
worked closely with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which fiercely
attacked John Kerry's service record in 2004.
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/richard_l_scott/index.html
The liberal blog Think Progress chronicled his "profits-driven
ideology and scandal-plagued history" in a video and fact sheet last
year, when he was a primary figure in the effort to scuttle the bill.
http://thinkprogress.org/who-is-rick-scott/
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0413/fraudster-astroturfer-florida-governor/
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Convicted fraudster and health care astroturfer runs… for governor
By Sahil Kapur
The newest entrant into the Florida governors' race has a history that
he'd probably prefer to keep secret.
Rick Scott, former hospital executive and leader of a million-dollar
astroturf operation to try and kill health care legislation, has
entered the Republican primary and will launch his first television ad
this week, Politico's Ben Smith reports.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Health_care_figure_running_for_Florida_Governor.html?showall
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They're all like alike, eh?
Harry