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Education Fail
Education Week ranks Florida’s graduation rate as 44th in the nation with a 63.9% graduation rate – well below the national average of 71.7%.
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Education Fail
Rick Scott and the Rickpublicans cut a devastating $2.6 billion from schools, health and social services. Thousands of teachers across the state received pink slips after the GOP gutted funding.
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Education Fail
Florida’s average teacher salary has dropped sharply and continues to plummet, ranking among the lowest in the nation at 37th or 47th. In 1998, the average teacher salary was ranked 29th.
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Quality of Life Fail
Florida has the second highest foreclosure rate in the nation. In March of 2011, 17 of the top 25 cities with the highest foreclosure rates in the nation were right here in Florida.
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Quality of Life Fail
Under Rick Scott, Florida refused to restore proper funding for “Healthy Families,” one of the most successful child-abuse prevention efforts in the nation.
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Quality of Life Fail
Rick Scott and the Rickpublicans gutted measures that protect Floridian’s quality of life. Florida now ranks in the bottom half of the states for median family income, percentage of citizens who have a college degree and gross state product per capita.
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Ethics Fail
Rickpublican corruption runs rampant throughout Florida’s government and has resulted in more federal corruption convictions than any other state from 1998 – 2007.
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Ethics Fail
Rick Scott declined a state email address in an effort to avoid Florida’s public records laws and then subsequently used private email accounts that were “mistakenly” deleted from 3 different servers or devices.
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Ethics Fail
Rick Scott was forced to resign as the head of a company that pleaded guilty to massive Medicare fraud, including 14 felonies, which led to an historic $1.7 billion settlement.
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Jobs Fail
Rickpubican policies – and their uncertainty – has resulted in near-record lows in consumer confidence amongst Floridians.
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Jobs Fail
Rick Scott ran his campaign on a promise to create 700,000 jobs on top of estimated growth. Now in office, Scott is backsliding on his campaign promise, even flat-out denying that he made it, despite video footage that documents it.
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Jobs Fail
No other state has seen the cumulative loss in small businesses over the last decade than Florida. Florida lost 26,596 businesses between 2006 and 2008.