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Rick Scott’s political committee fired back Friday at Lake Worth activist Cara Jennings, who recently confronted the governor at a Gainesville Starbucks, blasting him over the state’s handling of health care issues.
Scott’s Let’s Get to Work 60-second web spot derides Jennings as a “latte liberal” and cites the former city commissioner’s past refusal to recite the pledge of allegiance.
She’s also called a “terribly rude woman” in the ad.
Instead, the spot touts the state’s economic rebound — refuting Jennings’ Starbucks claim that “who here has a great job?”
The spot can be seen at:
For her part, Jennings told the Palm Beach Post she was surprised Friday by Scott’s response. But only to a degree.
“Does anything Rick Scott does at this point surprise anybody in Florida?” Jennings said. “It’s completely inappropriate for the governor to use his political committee to produce an ad to retaliate against an individual’s concerns.”
Jennings said Scott’s refusal to support Medicaid expansion and his decision to sign into law a measure imposing stricter limits on abortion clinics is a threat to hundreds of thousands of Floridians.
She aimed her criticism of him for these policy positions at a loud decibel level in the Gainesville Starbucks. But there’s no mention of them in his response ad, she pointed out.
Instead, Jennings said she was still awaiting the governor’s response to her followup email offer. After their Starbucks exchange went viral, Jennings asked Scott to meet over coffee to further their discussion.
“I don’t know if I should take this as his response,” she said.
