‘My lobbyists are better than yours!’ says Gov Rick Scott (R-FL)
Governor Skeletor from Florida vowed to get rid of all in-house lobbyists during his campaign making people believe he would not be beholden to special interest groups. Well, just not Charlie Crist’s special interests. He has his own.
Back in August 2010, Scott said,
“It’s a pretty lean and mean government, is it not?” [Chuck] Todd asked.
“No,” replied Scott. “We have a $70 billion budget. We’re not going back and looking at how we spend everything. And for example, we have 50 state lobbyists that just lobby the Legislature for money every year. That’s not what state governments ought to be doing.”
Well, except if they are lobbyists who the Governor likes (video at the link).