“The governor doesn’t understand there is a State Constitution and that we have three branches of government,” said State Senator Mike Fasano, a Republican from New Port Richey who upset Mr. Scott with rough handling of his staff during a testy committee hearing. “They are talking about the attitude that he is still the C.E.O. of his former health care corporation, and that is not going to work in this state, in Tallahassee, in my district. The people believe in three branches of government.”Republican lawmakers in Florida were hoping for a smoother transition. Instead, they say, they got top-down management from a political novice.
This is after Scott killed job-creating high-speed rail in Florida, slashed education to benefit his corporate buddies, and generally showed himself to be a lying sack of crap.
It shouldn't be any surprise he's acting this way, however. He was a billionaire CEO of HCA/Columbia before buying the governorship, and the way he is running the state indicates how CEOs think about the rest of us. Everyone else exists to serve them; the state's voters can be cast aside like workers in an economic downturn. CEOs are paid pretty highly to not care about the people that work for them. Meanwhile, his corporate buddies--whom he obviously sees as investors--are showered with your tax dollars. CEOs don't care about people; to them, people are tools to be used. The only people that matter are other corporate leaders, particularly other CEOs.
Elect a CEO, you elect the guy that fired you in the last recession, and the guy running your cable TV and mobile phone companies, not to mention the guys who sent Enron, WorldCom and a host of similar companies into the ground in flames. Who would ever think someone like that would be effective at running a state for the benefit of its people?
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