through twelve programs or appears that rick scott is now going after higher education as well steve this week he's aside the state shouldn't be spending money on all those liberal arts degrees he said this is quote i got accused of not liking anthropologists the other day but think about it how many were jobs do you think there are for anthropologists in the state now rick went on to say do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs in anthropology i know i want to make sure that we spend our dollars where people can get jobs when they get out now it's got a little further the discussion saying that the who wants to shift more funding to colleges that offer degrees in science technology engineering and math he wants to create a new silicon valley in florida so rick scott is basically things screw you to students who are liberal arts degrees he wants to colleges to offer free market friendly majors basically rick scott doesn't like liberal arts classes and agrees because they educate people on social issues but guess what they also give you critical th

i decided tonight's tool time of war and tonight goes to florida governor rick scott to the republican just took office this year but he's not very well liked by florida residents who voted him into office he currently has a thirty seven percent approval rating and that's the highest of his governorship and just a few months in office he had the honor of tossing the first page of the gang the spring training game and he didn't really get a very well or welcome from flirting floridians. the old the old out now besides being booed scott has faced criticism after criticism for his handling of state issues he was a wall during a weekend of major wildfires across the state in june turns out he was at a secret treat with the koch brothers he also signed into law a bill that required all welfare recipients to pass a drug test and that's actually cost the state money because virtually no one seeking help was on drugs but the state had to pay for the testing now rick scott has also slashed major funding for education in florida. rick scott has just announced his new budget in florida it takes m

country passing unconstitutional voter id laws to make it harder for people to vote and down in rick scott's florida they're also passing laws to make it harder to register people to vote what's going on here deirdre macnab joins me now she's the president of the league of women voters of florida they're welcome to the program eighty tom it's a pleasure to be reviewed is the thanks for joining us first is this new law new law actually making it harder to register new voters. unquestionably it is and it's it's very unfortunate because your viewers i'm sure are very familiar with the year two thousand and the difficulties that florida faced as really the poster child in the country how not to run the elections we made a lot of sense that year with new machinery a paper trail the expansion of early voting and then what we've seen just in the last few years is a very consistent effort to make it harder for our citizens in florida to get right to start and harder for them to cast their vote just just this year in the legislative session they put into place a number of laws and a voter registratio

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for rick scott. and also effective?. >> what does the evidence show on the percentage of welfare recipients who do use drugs? >> what did you find? >> i think the numbers are this. it's only 2% of the people -- this just started july 1st. i think it's about -- the numbers are off a little bit. like only 2% to 2.5% of the people who did the test. >> okay. maybe not super effective since 2%, 2.5% is way lower than known drug use levels in the population at large. so maybe poor people aren't using drugs at a hugely disproportionate level compared to the rest of the population. but still, it's nice to humiliate them for being poor people, isn't it? isn't that the point? in ohio there's a message for the drug test the poor. this is robert hagan, a democrat, responding to his state's republican drug test the poor proposals with his own drug testing bill. his bill would drug test other people who get state money. not just poor people. his bill would drug test, say, statewide elected officials and members of the general assembl

all of my republican friends cannot stomach rick scott. all they say is he is a thief. his polls are down. i don't think you are gonna -- i don't think you're going to get as many republicans you think to vote for any presidential candidate. guest: the name-calling of our governor is just the nastiness of politics. it is disgusting. it is free speech so people have the right to do that. us talk specifically about lawsuits. anybody can file a lawsuit. our governor is making some difficult decisions that need it to be made. a lot of folks don't like that. let's talk about drug testing of welfare recipients. that money is for children. by drug testing, that insures that the money is in fact getting to the children and taking care of children and not somebody's drug habits. some faults are upset about it. they don't like it. i don't understand it. the republicans and democrats and independents that i have talked to, or average americans and floridians agree with that. as i said before, and our governor, our house and senate leadership have done some great things over the la

. >> the guys that rick perry picked up, a lot of them worked for rick scott, the governor of florida. now, remember, rick scott was head of a company that was charged $1.7 billion in fines and damages for defrauding medicare. and they got that guy elected governor. so if i were mitt romney, or somebody else, and saw these guys coming into rick perry's camp, i would say, maybe this guy does have a second chance here. we ought to be worried about a perry bounce. >> well, i just think it's great that the guy who's head of disaster relief for "w" has now come in to solve the problems of rick perry. perfect job for a disaster expert. thank you very much, david corn. birtherism, it's not the prettiest face of america. thank you, wayne, for getting to the roots of this guy. >>> coming up, herman cain's got his 9-9-9 plan, of course, and rick perry is pushing now a flat tax. and now mitt romney once called a flat tax a tax cut for fat cats is warming up to the idea. these people are other directed, they lean to the right on everything. the republicans are looking to shift the tax burden, it

nbc affiliate in orlando, florida on how the new voting rules enacted by florida republicans and rick scott are shaping up in the sunshine state. the office of governor scott declined to the comment for the story. the first scalp of the rules is the civics teacher who had the temerity to offer the high school seniors voter registration forms like she does every year. the county supervisor said when she realize aed she would have to turn in the civics teacher to the state for violating the new voting rules the couldn't supervisor felt sick to her stomach saying this wasn't someone who was going to commit voter fraud. she was doing a good thing. the high school was doing a good thing. >> she was so revolted she wrote her own op ed in the daytona beach journal. i go out of my way to avoid controversy and conflict but legislation pass in 2011 session was in my humble opinion to egregious i thought i had to bring it to the attention of all interested citizens. it is not that election county supervisor in florida or senator nelson who you saw outraged in the news clip and frankly not just florida

and i have rick scott and marco rubio to deal with and the fact they are proposing -- get this they are squad and old sparky down here because of the whole lethal injection controversy and they want to legalize dwarf tossing that is what is happening in florida and they have rick scott. so locally right now, it is that bachmann doesn't disapoint. the sad thing is when they go away. but i a new one pops up, like whack-a-mole. >> rick perry done or does he still have life, do you think? >> i think he is going to pretty much be done. after him sitting at the debate his pants half-open, his beer half done, at the debate, let me know when it is my turn to talk. >> lizz winstead always a pleasure, great to have you with us tonight. i amth thank is the ed show i'm ed schultz. listen to me on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through

you heard rick scott was here last night, love to him in the panhandle as much as we can get him.val museum out there, the third largest air and space museum in the world in pensacola. >> so much history ashton. george h.w. bush's airplane. remember him coming here, the plane that got shot down in the pacific, set the naval air museum. there's history here, there's beaches here, great military here. again, it's -- i think we're turning the corner. this is a great place to live and great place to start a business. >> the great thing is the leaders in the community are stepping up. collier, and a dear friend of mine, jerry pait, we've been traveling the country. >> jerry pait, the great golfer. >> he's going to be in tuscaloosa tomorrow, along with nick saban. >> we're very excited about that. >> he's excited but he's been an ambassador for pensacola. we traveled the country together telling people about pensacola. you're doing a heck of a job. we appreciate it. >> it's a lot of people getting involved. volunteers getting people here. you're going to be on stage next week at the mus

to have a job they love capitalism they love the free market but do you have a job why why does rick scott get applause when he's when he brags of atlanta fifteen thousand well because people don't want they don't like big government they don't like to see money squandered by state and so there's a lot of teachers and people are applauding. fire fighting for they literally laid out or teachers the last forty years where a person could take so that they could concentrate on helping children you really and truly are in favor of the you think americans should make progress unless the rest of us money you think that is the private sector has moved from good jobs down to taco bell wages that the public sector should do the same what i'm saying is that teachers who want to teach if it comes a point where the budget won't support it they should say our love of teaching and helping children is more important than our material benefit bankers who want to bank because they so love banking if they can get the two billion dollars a year we should we should be very very concerned about that i don't thi

. >>> a trio of gop governors scott walker of wisconsin, john kasich of ohio and rick scott of florida already sent back a combined $3.6 billion in federal high speed rail grants. they had been set aside for their states. >> these projects always go over in cost always lose money. >> governor scott says the project is way too risky for his state. >> wisconsin governor walker feels the same way. >> to me it's a waste of money. >> he wishes he could make that call for california. >> what would you do with the billions of billions of dollars the administration has set aside? >> is this ever going to get off the ground? >> look, i mean there's $8 billion sitting there right now. they will construct something. >> and soon. construction crews are scheduled to break ground in 2012. >> coming up the president saw spain as his green jobs inspiration. was he taken for a ride? after the break. [ male announcer ] when men don't choose what's right for their face, they can end up with shaving irritation. ♪ get gillette irritation defense shave gel and gillette fusion proglide razor to help defend a

republican rick scott made the drug testing policy a promise during this campaign. his response. trace gallagher has that. >> reporter: the judge saying this law is a violation of the constitutional ban on unreasonable search and seizure. and the suit was filed by the aclu on behalf of this man. he's a navy veteran and single father. he said he wanted to collect welfare benefits while he was finishing his college degree. but then he said no i'm not going to do the testing. the state said then you don't get your $300 a week. 1,600 people have so far refused to under goat testing. since the testing began, 7,000 have passed. 32 have failed. most of those who failed failed because of testing positive for marijuana. the test is $25 to $35 bucks. if you pass you get the money back. the state said sit would save $77 million a year. it's unclear where that number came from. but experts say it appears to be scene overestimation. the governor rick scott saying drug testing welfare recipients is a common sentence way to insure that welfare dollars are used to help children and

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. >>> a trio of gop governors scott walker of wisconsin, john kasich of ohio and rick scott of floridaillion in federal high speed rail grants. they had been set aside for their states. >> these projects always go over in cost always lose money. >> governor scott says the project is way too risky for his state. >> wisconsin governor walker feels the same way. >> to me it's a waste of money. >> he wishes he could make that call for california. >> what would you do with the billions of billions of dollars the administration has set aside? >> is this ever going to get off the ground? >> look, i mean there's $8 billion sitting there right now. they will construct something. >> and soon. construction crews are scheduled to break ground in 2012. >> coming up the president saw spain as his green jobs inspiration. was he taken for a ride? after the break. capital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody... ♪ would you like 50% more cash? no! but it's more money. [ male announcer

gor rick scott hired the guys and he listened to them and he went to victory in florida.rt strategy by perry camp that will get them attention and momentum. >> eric: romney and iowa. romney was going to try to duck iowa. if you are a romney campaign, you say there is no obvious front runner iowa. you are the front runner nationally. you have to play in iowa. no choice. he is not an iowa type of candidate. he got 25% last time. >> eric: what you are saying if newt wins it's okay for romney. not okay if perry wins? >> bob: absolutely. if it's newt or perry they knock points off of romney. >> kimberly: i know you like the visit herman cain who is doing well in iowa. where do you think he will end up in the -- >> eric: probably end up fourth. you can be hot but you have to have organization to deliver the bodies and he has no organization. 99 counties and thousands of caucuses. he is not prepared to do it. >> dana: santorum might do better in iowa. >> bob: he may. >> dana: he could get in the upper tier. you said romney -- you are fan of setting the expectation low in camps.

you have rick scott down in nor floor.hat happens when republican policies get put into place and i think the lesson that labor will take from this referendum and from others is that they are on the right side. they're on the side of where the voters are and republican policies and this right-wing agenda is far outside the mainstream and is likely to get rejected. >> but are there any parts of this considering some parts of it, anne kornblut, when you look at some of the poll numbers, so the idea of contributing more to retirement and health care are proposals that are favored, labor will go in and go into the negotiations willing to give more on some of these things if they want to keep their rights. is that is not one of the messages out of this election? >> yes, and we've always seen on certain measures that the specifics are more popular than the aggregate so that may be -- we'll have to see what happens next week, of course, or when the election happens. but i think what will be interesting is how the white house resp

they were involved in the rick scott campaign in florida. how hard are you prepared to go after mitt romney in the gop primary fight? >> guest: i don't get confused with telling the truth. someone might say that is negative. if we are tellingth truth about someone that is the truth whether it hurts your feelings or not. >> chris: you have a problem here. i want to put up a new iowa des moines register poll out this morning. it shows herman cain and mitt romney way ahead of the field and you at 7 percent. isn't herman cain stand nothing your way in terps of a one-on-one battle with mitt romney. >> guest: people of iowa and new hampshire and florida in those early states look at the plan and i think that is what they are just now doing. this race is not settled at all. as they look and see who is it that will lay out a plan to get america working and mitt's nibbling around the edge and look at herman cain's create a two taxes and flat and sales tax . our plan to get america work take and know that there is a 10 year recordd of being a solid co

is adding a bunch of people and the consultants he is adding, all were the key campaign people, rick scottr of florida. making a big bet on florida and the flat tax. >> see you tomorrow. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." hi, tamron. >> great to see you. in the next hour, president obama will land in the foreclosure capital of the nation -- nevada. nearly all the state's homeowners are under water. how will the plan not just nevada, but those across the country. he won't see another term. he is leaving congress because he is tired of partisan politics. on the way out, he takes a swipe at president obama. "news nation" is minutes away. what's better than gold ? free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride. that's a plus. rewards with no blackout dates so you can redeem anytime. and it's easy to redeem your points online. already a gold member ? just select gold plus rewards in your profile and start rewarding yourself now. just go to hertzgoldplusrewards.com to join. hertz gold plus

frankly, have a history of aggressive negative campaigning, for instance, they were involved in the rick scott campaign in florida which is a tough campaign. how hard are you prepared to go after mitt romney in this gop primary fight? >> i don't get confused with just telling the truth what someone might say that is negative. if we are telling the truth about someone, the truth is the truth. whether it hurts your feelings or not. >> chris: you got a little bit of a problem here and i want to put up a new poll. this is the new, iowa des moines register poll just out this morning. it shows herman cain and romney way ahead of the field in the low he 20s and you back in fifth place at 7%. isn't herman cain standing in your way in terms of a one on one battle with mitt romney? >> i think aswim of iowa or new hampshire or south carolina or florida or any of the early states look at the plan. obviously this race isn't settleled at all. as they look and see who is it that is going to lay out a plan to get america working. when they look at mit nibbling on the edges and herman cain creating two new sou

frankly, have a history of aggressive negative campaigning, for instance, they were involved in the rick scott campaign in florida which is a tough campaign. how hard are you prepared to go after mitt romney in this gop primary fight? >> i don't get confused with just telling the truth what someone might say that is negative. if we are telling the truth about someone, the truth is the truth. whether it hurts your feelings or not. >> chris: you got a little bit of a problem here and i want to put up a new poll. this is the new, iowa des moines register poll just out this morning. it shows herman cain and romney way ahead of the field in the low he 20s and you back in fifth place at 7%. isn't herman cain standing in your way in terms of a one on one battle with mitt romney? >> i think aswim of iowa or new hampshire or south carolina or florida or any of the early states look at the plan. obviously this race isn't settleled at all. as they look and see who is it that is going to lay out a plan to get america working. when they look at mit nibbling on the edges and herman cain creating two new sou

passage of fair district florida, we need to make sure we take control back from our states, from rick scottand his cronies by electing democrats from pensacola to key west in our state legislature and congress and up and down the ballot. we can do it and we will do it with your hard work. there is no other option. my fellow floridians, the contrast between what the democrats are fighting for and what the republicans are fighting for has been made very clear in recent weeks. republicans in the u.s. senate have now twice voted to block hard or all of the american jobs act. the president's plan to put americans back to work immediately and put more money in the pockets of those already working. these are ideas that have previously received bipartisan support. i know that is foreign these days. ideas like tax relief for middle-class families, keeping teachers in the classroom and police and firefighters on the job in helping to rebuild our bridges and our roads. and one of the thing that should made it easy to pass, the president's plan is fully paid for. fully paid for. unlike with the republi