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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-25/florida-s-scott-least-popular-governor-poll.html Florida’s Scott Least Popular Governor: Poll
By Simone Baribeau - May 25, 2011 2:44 PM ET epublican Governor Rick Scott, whose fiscal 2012 budget reduces school spending and requires pension payments from state workers for the first time, scored the lowest job-approval rating of any governor covered by Quinnipiac University polls.
Scott’s performance since he took office in January was endorsed by 29 percent of those questioned in a May 17-23 survey released today by Quinnipiac. That’s down from 35 percent in April and lowest of the six governors followed by the pollster, including Republicans John Kasich of Ohio and Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania.
Florida’s $69.7 billion 2012 spending plan is $842 million smaller than this year’s. It cuts education by $2.5 billion and makes workers pay 3 percent of wages toward retirement. Fifty- four percent of voters in the Quinnipiac poll said the budget is “unfair” compared with 29 percent who back it.
“That’s a giant flashing political warning sign for Scott,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, said in a statement.
Scott is making the “tough choices” necessary to create 700,000 jobs, a key campaign promise, said Lane Wright, a spokesman.
“While he is mindful of the concerns from various individuals and interest groups, Governor Scott is confident he’s making the right choices to benefit Florida as a whole,” he said in an e-mail.
Budget Signing
Scott, the first Florida governor elected with less than 50 percent of the vote since 1916, will sign the budget tomorrow in the Villages, a retirement community northwest of Orlando, Scott said in a release yesterday. The Republican-dominated Legislature passed the measure on May 7.
The millionaire former health-care executive’s approval rating is 9 percentage points lower than Kasich’s and 10 points less than Corbett’s. The three were elected in November after campaigning to limit taxes and state spending.
Connecticut Democrat Dan Malloy had a 35 percent approval rating in Quinnipiac’s March 9 poll, and Democrat Andrew Cuomo of New York scored 64 percent on April 13. New Jersey’s Chris Christie, a Republican elected in 2009, had a 47 percent approval rating in a survey released April 20.
Scott’s disapproval score began at 22 percent on Feb. 2, the first Quinnipiac poll of his term. It was 48 percent on April 6 and 57 percent in today’s survey. Crushing public education to appease christian, redneck, lower/middle class blue hairs will earn you your rightful place in political hell. I notice he now makes all his appearances in the lilly white levittown o' lake county....The Villages.
By Simone Baribeau - May 25, 2011 2:44 PM ET epublican Governor Rick Scott, whose fiscal 2012 budget reduces school spending and requires pension payments from state workers for the first time, scored the lowest job-approval rating of any governor covered by Quinnipiac University polls.
Scott’s performance since he took office in January was endorsed by 29 percent of those questioned in a May 17-23 survey released today by Quinnipiac. That’s down from 35 percent in April and lowest of the six governors followed by the pollster, including Republicans John Kasich of Ohio and Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania.
Florida’s $69.7 billion 2012 spending plan is $842 million smaller than this year’s. It cuts education by $2.5 billion and makes workers pay 3 percent of wages toward retirement. Fifty- four percent of voters in the Quinnipiac poll said the budget is “unfair” compared with 29 percent who back it.
“That’s a giant flashing political warning sign for Scott,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, said in a statement.
Scott is making the “tough choices” necessary to create 700,000 jobs, a key campaign promise, said Lane Wright, a spokesman.
“While he is mindful of the concerns from various individuals and interest groups, Governor Scott is confident he’s making the right choices to benefit Florida as a whole,” he said in an e-mail.
Budget Signing
Scott, the first Florida governor elected with less than 50 percent of the vote since 1916, will sign the budget tomorrow in the Villages, a retirement community northwest of Orlando, Scott said in a release yesterday. The Republican-dominated Legislature passed the measure on May 7.
The millionaire former health-care executive’s approval rating is 9 percentage points lower than Kasich’s and 10 points less than Corbett’s. The three were elected in November after campaigning to limit taxes and state spending.
Connecticut Democrat Dan Malloy had a 35 percent approval rating in Quinnipiac’s March 9 poll, and Democrat Andrew Cuomo of New York scored 64 percent on April 13. New Jersey’s Chris Christie, a Republican elected in 2009, had a 47 percent approval rating in a survey released April 20.
Scott’s disapproval score began at 22 percent on Feb. 2, the first Quinnipiac poll of his term. It was 48 percent on April 6 and 57 percent in today’s survey. Crushing public education to appease christian, redneck, lower/middle class blue hairs will earn you your rightful place in political hell. I notice he now makes all his appearances in the lilly white levittown o' lake county....The Villages.
