Friday13
Governor
Rich Scott goes off script...
In a press release last week, Scott's office pointed to numbers indicating that Florida's unemployment rate had the "fastest in the nation" decrease since early 2011. On the stump, the first-term governor—whose approval rating is only 41 percent, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll—regularly touts rising median home prices and positive job growth numbers in the state.
"Throughout our state, we see signs our economy is moving in the right direction," Scott said during a jobs event in July.
Mitt Romney tells a different story. When the presumptive Republican nominee talks, he describes a Florida with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, its sunny skies darkened by record-high foreclosure rates and rising poverty rates
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