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Rick Scott sends New Year’s greeting

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Rick Scott rang in 2016 with a New Year’s message sponsored by his political committee. Scott released a 15-second video using his campaign Twitter account Friday morning. In the message, Scott wishes Floridians a Happy New Year, before saying “2016 is going to be a great year for Florida.” “We’ll hit a milestone cutting a billion dollars in taxes and creating a million jobs in just five years,” the Naples Republican says during the video, sponsored by “Let’s Get to…

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No Casinos jump-starts anti-gambling campaign with $195K check

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Anti-gambling group No Casinos Inc. launched a new political committee late last month and jump-started its fundraising with a $195,000 check. Voters in Charge paperwork reached state elections officials Oct. 21 and the contribution followed two days later. The committee is chaired by No Casinos President John Sowinski and Abby Dupree is listed as the treasurer, a title she also holds for Let’s Get to Work, the committee supporting Gov. Rick Scott. The committee was formed to back a 2018…

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Let’s Get to Work posts third straight six-figure fundraising month

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Contributions are still flowing to Gov. Rick Scott’s political committee, which brought in its third straight six-figure haul last month. The committee, Let’s Get to Work, added $118,300 in September and spent about $83,000, leaving the committee with about $717,000 on-hand at the end of the month. The September numbers represent only about a quarter of what the committee raised in August. Most of the September money came from some familiar names, too. Former Anheuser-Busch CEO August A. Busch III…

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Bill Day’s latest: What is Rick Scott running for, anyway?

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Where is Rick Scott running? Scott continues to raise campaign cash as the Florida Chamber of Commerce gave $400,000 to the political action committee controlled by the Republican governor, one of the largest contributions ever from the group. Bill Day’s latest asks an obvious question: Why? If anything, “Let’s Get to Work” has been – in the words of Matt Dixon of POLITICO – prolific. During Scott’s successful 2014 re-election effort, “Work” broke records for Florida fundraising, remaining very active…

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Let’s Get to Work raises $275K in May

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Gov. Rick Scott’s political committee, Let’s Get to Work, raised $275,000 in May, including a $100,000 check from Jupiter businessman and trustee of the DeGeorge Charitable Trust, Lawrence F. DeGeorge. The contributions push the committee’s yearly total to $2.6 million, though they are markedly lower than the monster hauls brought in during the legislative session months of March ($1 million) and April ($687,500). The total came from just 16 contributions, including contributions from three divisions of Scott’s former company, Hospital Corporation of America, which…

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When a snub is not a snub, even if it involves Rick Scott

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Forgive me, regular readers, for defending Rick Scott, but he’s being accused of snubbing the Florida GOP when, in fact, he has not. Adam Smith of the Tampa Bay Times writes today about Scott’s upcoming Economic Growth Summit at which several of the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates will be given “an opportunity to talk about the economy, jobs and their vision for economic growth for the country.” Smith writes that what is being overlooked “is how the entire thing…

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Rick Scott’s Let’s Get to Work PAC has raised more than $2.3 million this year

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Gov. Rick Scott‘s “Let’s Get to Work” political committee raised $687, 691 in April, including a $100,000 contribution from Tampa Bay Lightning owner and Channelside developer Jeff Vinik. That brings his totals in 2015 to over $2.3 million ($2,368,000). Other major contributions in April came from the AIF PAC, the political  action committee formed by the powerful Associated Industries of Florida organization. They contributed $150,000. AIF had mixed success during the recent legislative session that ended abruptly earlier this month. They were…

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