Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott is an American politician and businessman presently serving as the 45th Governor of Florida since January 2011. A member of Republican Party of Florida, he is serving as Governor for consecutive two terms as he was re-elected for a second term in 2014.
Rick Scott was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is currently serving his first term representing the state of Florida. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Rick Scott served two terms as the 45th Governor of Florida, working every day to turn around Florida’s economy and secure the state’s future as the best place for families ...
Jan 14, 2019 · She joined Senator Rick Scott's team in 2014 working for his reelection campaign. After joining the Governor's administration, she served as the Governor's South Florida Regional Director and then the Governor's Washington D.C. Director. Prior to joining Governor Scott's team, Christine Diaz was a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Southern Methodist UniversityRick Scott / CollegeSouthern Methodist University is a private research university in University Park, Texas, US with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—now part of the United Methodist Church—in partnership with Dallas civic leaders. Wikipedia
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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of the late former President George H. W. ... In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development.
A member of the Republican Party, he was the 45th governor of Florida from 2011 to 2019. Scott is a graduate of the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.
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Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 2006 to 2008.
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He was born on December 1, 1952, in Bloomington, Illinois as the second child among five children of a lower middle-class family. His parents divorced and later in 1954 his mother, Esther J. (née Fry), a clerk at J.C. Penney, married Orba Scott, Jr. who was in the 82nd Airborne during the ‘Second World War’ and post war became a city bus driver and later a truck driver. After Orba adopted him, Rick used Scott as his surname.
Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott is an American politician and businessman presently serving as the 45th Governor of Florida since January 2011. A member of Republican Party of Florida, he is serving as Governor for consecutive two terms as he was re-elected for a second term in 2014. He is a noted businessman who served the United States Navy ...
He assumed office as Governor of Florida on January 4, 2011. As Governor Scott refused to take $2.3 billion in federal funding on February 16, 2011, for development of high-speed rail between Orlando and Tampa.
Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Rick Scott served two terms as the 45th Governor of Florida , working every day to turn around Florida’s economy and secure the state’s future as the best place for families and businesses to succeed. Scott grew up in public housing in the Midwest as his adoptive father, a World War II veteran and truck driver, and his mother, a store clerk, struggled to financially support their family. After marrying his high school sweetheart, Ann, Scott joined the Navy, where he served active duty as a radar man aboard the USS Glover. He used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and eventually opened his first business – a donut shop. Scott went on to run the world’s largest healthcare company and continues to fight every day so families across the state can have the same opportunities he had to live the American dream.
Scott grew up in public housing in the Midwest as his adoptive father, a World War II veteran and truck driver, and his mother, a store clerk, struggled to financially support their family. After marrying his high school sweetheart, Ann, Scott joined the Navy, where he served active duty as a radar man aboard the USS Glover.
In response to the 2014 illegal immigration surge, Scott wrote a letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Health and Human Services secretary. Scott complained about the lack of a system of notification to communities in place for when immigrants were placed there with sponsors or relatives.
He assumed office on January 3, 2019. His current term ends on January 3, 2025. Scott ( Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Florida. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018. In the 2018 election, Scott defeated incumbent Bill Nelson (D) by about 0.2 percentage points.
Before his election to the Senate, Scott served as governor of Florida from 2011 to 2019. In 2010, Scott defeated Alex Sink (D) by 1.2 percentage points after winning a competitive Republican primary against Attorney General Bill McCollum by about 3 percentage points.
During a March 16, 2017, news conference, 9th Circuit Court Prosecutor Aramis Ayala announced that she would not seek the death penalty in any cases she was responsible for prosecuting during her time in office, citing the costliness of death penalty proceedings and arguing that there was no evidence that capital punishment decreases crime rates. Ayala made the announcement while she was in the midst of prosecuting the high-profile case of Markeith Loyd, who was accused of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend and a police officer. Gov. Scott criticized Ayala's announcement, saying, "I completely disagree with State Attorney Ayala's decision and comments and I am asking her to recuse herself immediately from this case. She has made it abundantly clear that she will not fight for justice for Lt. Debra Clayton and our law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day." Scott removed Ayala from the case the day of the announcement and appointed a special prosecutor. On March 20, Ayala asked Judge Frederick J. Lauten to temporarily halt the Loyd case while she considered her legal options, arguing that allowing Scott to remove her from the case "would be unprecedented and could undermine the entire justice system in Florida." The case drew commentary from the NAACP, the National Bar Association, and the Florida Legislative Black Caucus, who asked Scott to return the case to Ayala, as well as from a group of Republican state legislators who asked Scott to remove Ayala from office.
Passed 74 to 20 in the U.S. Senate on November 20th, 2019. U.S. Sen. Scott voted against: U.S. House Resolution 755.
Rick Scott defeated incumbent Bill Nelson and Augustus Sol Invictus in the general election for U.S. Senate Florida on November 6, 2018.
Scott ran for re-election in 2014. Scott secured the Republican nomination in the primary on August 26, 2014. Scott ran on the GOP ticket with Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera in the general election.