A.G. Gancarski
Rick Scott shares the November ballot with two initiatives that he opposes along with most other Florida Republican leaders.
“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure these don’t pass,” he said in Jacksonville Saturday at the Duval County Republican Party headquarters.
But he’s not disclosing strategies to defeat the Adult Personal Use of Marijuana or the Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion.
“I don’t support the ballot initiative on abortion because it’s extreme. I think the Democrats are, I believe, extreme on this. They support abortion up until the moment of birth, they support allowing a healthy baby born alive to die just by leaving him in the corner,” Scott claimed about the abortion initiative, before moving on to cannabis consideration.
“I know that marijuana is a gateway drug. My brother just died in the last few months, starting with marijuana and he ended up struggling with alcohol and drugs, so I don’t support it,” Scott added.
The amendments need at least 60% of the vote to pass, and both the abortion and weed pushes are too close to call, according to recent polls.
The Florida Atlantic University Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab (PolCom Lab) says the abortion amendment, which would effectively roll back restrictions on the procedure enacted in recent years, is at 56% support. They make the same claim about the cannabis measure, which would allow adults to possess three ounces of flower or five grams of concentrate.
A poll from USA Today/Suffolk University/WSVN released this week found that the cannabis amendment had 63% support, meanwhile.
15 comments
Larry Gillis, Libertarian (Cape Coral)
August 17, 2024 at 5:08 pm
Remind the Senator that there is no “middle ground” on abortion.
Ocean Joe
August 18, 2024 at 9:00 am
When your rightwing leaders saw the reaction to overturning Roe they all became wafflers. They’re scared the same way they’re scared of getting on Trump’s wrong side. And Trump himself is waffling on the issue, so dont be too hard on these GOP survivalists. Their jobs and power come first, integrity and principles got washed down the drain back in 2016, not that Scott could claim either.
MarvinM
August 17, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Rick Scott, from the article: “they support allowing a healthy baby born alive to die just by leaving him in the corner,”
That’s just entirely untrue.
A healthy baby will go in to the Florida foster care system. No doctor, no nurse, will allow a healthy baby to “die just by leaving him in the corner” (Scott’s words again)
Now, I’m sure, someone reading here will be able to google and find anecdotes about babes being “left in the corner” but if you do, check the dates. Are your stories within the last 3 years? Or 7 years, or 12 years? And are they Florida stories or some other state?
Rick Scott is not stupid, but he is desperate to retain his senate seat. He barely won it last time. That’s why he seems fine repeating these ridiculous lies.
If babies are being thrown in corners in Florida then why the heck hasn’t any Republican governor in Florida done a damn thing to stop it?
Oh wait, it’s because IT ISN’T HAPPENING!
Michael S
August 17, 2024 at 6:19 pm
Oh, c’mon Rick. When you went around campaigning for your first election, you actually articulated your own thoughts on policy…now you are getting lazy and just repeating the same talking point that every Republican being interviewed does. At least give Lindsay Graham accreditation for coining the phrase (‘up until birth’) back in 2021.
On another point, which is actually way more deleterious to your fitness for executing the duties of a United States Senator is your ignorance of current law. Since Roe v. Wade is no longer law, abortion law falls to each of the 50 states’ statutes. Therefore, the abortion ballot initiative in Florida is the only piece of proposed law you need to comment on. The Florida initiative reads… Except as provided in Article X, Section 22, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.
It is universally accepted healthcare provider standard of practice that ‘viability’ is achieved at or around 24 weeks….not 39 which is usually when deliveries are scheduled.
Tim Smith
August 17, 2024 at 11:42 pm
Religious Fundamentalist nut jobs act like they don’t know at least two people who shouldn’t breed but did… and they wouldn’t adopt that child. Vote NO to irrational ideology all the way down the ticket. It’s a vote for secularism over theocratic authoritarianism.
waking up
August 18, 2024 at 8:16 am
Of course, Alien Rick is against female body autonomy and the right to use a plant that God gave us. He is “going to do everything he can” to fight against our freedoms! Is he going to knock on doors to spread his views? No. Maybe put up yard signs? Unlikely. Give money? Are you kidding? No, he is just going to flap his gums. Vote this carpetbagger loser out of office! Vote YES on 3 and 4!
Dont Say FLA
August 21, 2024 at 1:20 pm
If Senor Scott does not like weed or abortions, I recommend he leave the state ASAP and find some other play to stay until he croaks which, given the looks of the poor old man, can’t be long.
Yrral
August 23, 2024 at 12:18 am
Rick Scott do not opposed stealing Medicare fund Google Rick Scott Medicare Fraud
Delusions
August 25, 2024 at 11:43 am
I oppose forced meds and damages it caused like tumors ,ckd
Uncontrolled crying . And nerve damage
Dale A Arnold
August 26, 2024 at 3:20 am
So much for their B.S.”THE FREE STATE OF FLORIDA” Republicans say… No people don’t have body autonomy.. The state will decide for us!
“Mind your own business” Tim Walz..
Harry
August 27, 2024 at 11:18 am
Honestly Ive never trusted Rick Scott, there is just something about him.
weedeater
August 28, 2024 at 7:39 pm
Here’s Arizona’s financials for the tax impact Ricky…I know you know dollars and doughnuts.
“Under the terms of Proposition 207, which voters approved in 2000, the state collects a 16% excise tax on recreational sales in addition to the standard sales tax; medical patients pay roughly 6% in state sales tax. Local jurisdictions charge an additional 2% or so for all marijuana sales.
The recreational market generated about $13.7 million in tax revenues for May and dropped to $11.8 million in June, with totals for both programs combining for $22.2 million and $19.25 million respectively.
One-third of revenue raised by the excise tax is dedicated to community college and provisional community college districts; 31% to public safety, including police, fire departments, fire districts and first responders; 25% to the Arizona Highway User Revenue Fund; and 10% to the justice reinvestment fund, which is dedicated to providing public health services, counseling, job training and other social services for communities that have been adversely affected and disproportionately impacted by marijuana arrests and criminalization.”
Tjb
August 29, 2024 at 11:27 am
Can someone explain to the prolife folks that abortion to the moment at birth exists because the doctor and mother has a difficult decision.
If you don’t abort, the mother dies
If you abort, the mother lives
Which one do you chose?
rick whitaker
August 29, 2024 at 1:59 pm
TJB, that sounds like a sophie’s choice dilemma.
Tjb
August 29, 2024 at 1:28 pm
At the time of “moment of birth”,the doctor and women may be faced with this medical decision.
-abort and let the woman live or
-not abort and let the women die
What do you chose?
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