Florida Governor pRick Scott Can't Even Get a Cup of Coffee at a Local Starbucks

[KamaAina]

http://gawker.com/florida-governor-rick-scott-cant-even-get-a-cup-of-coff-1769294087

Today, footage surfaced of Florida governor Rick Scott, at a Starbucks in Gainesville, getting yelled at by a customer—local woman Cara Jennings, who is none to happy with the governor.

“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Jennings shouts. “You’re an asshole. You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”

The two have a small back and forth as Scott attempts to remind the customer that he’s “created 1 million jobs.” “Where?” Jennings responds.

As he leaves the cafe—without any coffee—Jennings accuses Scott of denying women access to vital care, presumably because that is precisely what the governor did last month. He then says something unintelligible back to the customer before hurrying out of the store.

[rurallib]

1. can't rec this enough

republican politicians should be screamed at daily

[Duval]

29. I agree. Wasn't that just great?

Someone should send that girl a thank you note with flowers.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Man, she was PISSED, and LOUD...

Needless to say, there were the comments on how's she sitting her poor ass in a Starbucks, but that was answered.

Also needless to say, the Governor and staff will go back to his office and pretend it never happened.

[steve2470]

3. That was awesome! Normally I'm a very polite person and I believe others should be as well....

but Governor Voldemort and other Republican politicians like him deserve every bit of public vitriol for the inhuman BS they pull and the lies they tell.

BOOM she laid it on him!! I wish I had been there.

[Iggo]

6. She was yelling at the right person, and so I'm all for it.

And like you, I wish I was there.

I'd've been cheering and whooping.

[steve2470]

7. same here! Scott is a real asshole criminal rat bastard!!!!!

Florida is my state, so I know way too much about him. That bastard turned down transportation funds for my state, so they ended up going to another state!!!!!

[lark]

12. I'm in FL as well.

FL doesn't even cover up to the Federal Poverty Limit for Medicare, much less go over. They only cover people with incomes up to 29% of the FPL. So you can be technically indigent in our state and still get squat. He also just cut funds for Planned Parenthood, so he is truly the worst of the worst when it comes to governors and health care, especially for women.

[steve2470]

13. Yes he is

He needs to be yelled at every time he emerges from his ratbastard lair in Tallahassee and from his home. Maybe he would resign. Sadly the Lt. Governor is probably just as bad. Then we would have to yell at him!

[dchill]

33. Kasich cut funds for Planned Parenthood, too...

But he was REAL nice & friendly about it!

[appalachiablue]

59. Kasich was also just in the news for saying entitlements and SS

had to be cut and people would have to 'get over it.'

[dchill]

60. Yep. But he's a real nice guy!

A Prince!

[appalachiablue]

61. Kasich may be nice! but also dangerous. He loved the money, I mean job

working as a manager for Lehman Bros. of Wall Street 2001-08 and the juicy executive stock option bonuses. Yuck..

[dchill]

62. Oh, I KNOW!

Not to mention the 6 or 7 years as a host on Fox News. I lived in Ohio for the first 29 years of my life; now I live just across the state line in PA. PA sucks, but it can't hold a candle to the suckage of Ohio. For now, anyway.

[appalachiablue]

63. Forgot about Fox, eek! Ohio is a such a great state; hope the damage can be

turned around somehow soon. When young I lived in Htgn., WV on the Ohio river and travelled to Columbus, Cincinnati, Oberlin and other places. Two good friends are from Pgh.

[dchill]

64. Oh yeah - you can NEVER forget about Fox News.

Never. Hotbed of sleazy reactionary sludge.

[appalachiablue]

65. Never watch it though I probly should sometimes. But it might do me in; several

months ago I listened to Michael Savage in the car a few times and couldn't believe the lies and hate, almost had to pull the over. It was some comfort when I read later that he's been banned from Britain for his mind & mouth since the early 2000s.

[lagomorph777]

23. It's a real pattern in the Red States: "Let's send all that dirty money back to Washington..."

"...so we can subsidize more intelligent states who deserve it."

Sadly it's true in my state too. I don't get how it could possibly be a winning strategy to tell voters you want to take their Federal tax dollars and shove them up Obama's ass. Surely there are better uses for that money right here!

[Baitball Blogger]

4. If Bernie wins, expect more of these clashes on a local level.

It will be a new era.

[OldHippieChick]

11. This uncivil society is becoming increasingly more

uncivil. I have been blaming Trump and the repukes for this, starting w/ the Bozo who yelled "You lie" during the President's first State of the Union. I never would have believed that Bernie was behind it!

[Baitball Blogger]

18. Bernie is popular because he has tapped into a lot of frustration from

ordinary people who have been exploited from this predatory world that has sent into this country. In Florida, it doesn't matter if they are Democratic or Republican leaders. They have all followed a pattern that takes advantage of people.

[OldHippieChick]

41. I don't disagree w/ the attitude or the frustration. But I truly

don't believe Bernie would accept or condone this kind of incivility. I just want us all to be careful comparing Bernie to Trump. Trump incites violence and anger. Bernie is offering a path forward w/ honor and civility.

P.S. I'm not a Bernie-first person, but I have great respect for the man.

[Skittles]

49. excellent analysis

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

5. Good for her

she should be proud.

[rug]

8. "Sweet."

[Jack Rabbit]

9. How to talk to a crooked politician (if you must)

That is a textbook example.

[DebbieCDC]

10. This lady wins the Internet today

Bravo ma'am

[florida08]

14. That was GREAT

Yeah I want to know where those million jobs are too. We're in Jax and don't see much of anything happening. I heard the south got some jobs but a million??? Thanks for posting. Made my day

[Amimnoch]

15. My only regret is that I have but one rec to give this thread.

Oh that's wonderful. I'd love to by Cara her cup of coffee and a muffin as well if she'd like.

[lpbk2713]

16. Next time he'll know better to send one of his gophers.

He'll send one of his flunkies while he waits in the Suburban behind the dark tinted glass.

[jtuck004]

19. They did send the gopher. Someone else's gopher. n/t

[DBoon]

22. Scott is a gopher

The Koch's gopher. They send him out to do all the unpleasant political work to protect their fortunes.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Scott and his staff better check the foam on their lattes. . .

. . .from here on out, next time (if ever) they visit a Starbucks.

[napkinz]

20. the video ...

[Person 2713]

76. Public shaming is one of the few things we have left now with these money fuckers

after CU and all

[Vinca]

21. That young woman deserves a medal!

[tabasco]

24. That lady is my hero.

That is EXACTLY how these America-hating right wingers should be treated in public. All thinking people should scorn these criminals. The "Starbucks Lady" should be an inspiration to us all to speak out when we have the chance to confront one of these scoundrels.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. K & R

sweet!

[SoapBox]

26. This needs to happen ALL the time with these crooks!

I'm so over all the sucking up to people in different positions of "power"...they need to be told off to their faces.

[NJCher]

67. Yeah, me, too

F$& civility. She ran his gopher ass right out on the street and he didn't even get his coffee. She kicked him to the curb. Notice the body language of at least one of his aides when leaving? Head down, arms folded. They were ashamed, which tells you right then and there that they know what they are doing and they know it is wrong.

Cher

[Zambero]

27. Jobs? OK then.

A million says Rick Scott. A few questions come to mind:

1. What are federal taxes levied on those Florida jobs, and what portion of those revenues are redirected to ACA Medicaid expansion?
2. What is the sum total of those Medicaid total dollars that Florida makes available to other states because Scott refuses to allow citizens to utilize what the state has already paid for (I gather the answers to #1 and #2 would be identical(.
3. How many Florida citizens are currently deprived of needed health care because of decisions made by Scott and his legislative allies, given that there would have been no added cost to the state had Medicaid expansion be permitted?

[klook]

28. Fan-fucking-tastic!

Voldemort gets his comeuppance!

[hibbing]

30. Wow!!

Look at him scamper away, love it.

Peace

[gademocrat7]

31. K&R

Good for her.

[closeupready]

32. Ha, what a coward he is.

K&R

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

34. Let this be a lesson for all of us.

Don't be afraid to speak up in public, by doing so it gives others more courage and freedom to do the same and that changes public opinion.

[Pacifist Patriot]

35. My hero of the day! She is spot on.

[madville]

36. Oh Florida

Where you can either vote for the Republican or the former-Republican-now-running-as-a-Democrat.

[Ohio Joe]

37. No coffee for shit heads

He should bet met like that everywhere.

[Blue Dalek]

38. I would have paid for that woman's coffee

Good for her!

[hopemountain]

39. applause for thit woman's

guts and candor!

[DesertRat]

40. this was awesome

[napkinz]

42. K&R!

[IcyPeas]

43. compare this to Obama going into an establishment....

This is so fantastic. I have to go watch it again.... and again.... and again. She should run for office, we need people like her.

compare and contrast:

[HockeyMom]

44. He didn't last half a day in a Kindergarten class in Immokalee

a few years ago. He made all the little kids cry and had to leave after a few hours. I worked in a Collier County Public School at the time and everybody was talking about it, and laughing. Kiss the Babies and make them CRY.

[KamaAina]

46. Hell, even Dumbya managed to read "The Pet Goat" to second-graders on Nineleven(TM)!

[retread]

45. Shame?? He has none.

[scottie55]

47. Now That Is How You Treat A Republican

Who would gladly watch you die if they could benefit from it politically.

Selling the death of poor people to tea baggers to win elections.

Every Republican should be treated like this.

Bastards.

[Blue Owl]

48. What a teabag Scott is...

n/t

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

50. That woman has a hell of a future if she finds her niche. WOW!!

[steve2470]

56. She was a Lake Worth FL city commissioner for a while and activist in south Florida nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

57. Sometimes in this country, the best people are quickly nullified.

I hope she doesn't suffer that fate. It takes a lot of guts to do what she did.

[underpants]

51. If it was a Teabagger in 2009 it would lead every "newscast"

[ladjf]

52. Good going lady! nt

[ohnoyoudidnt]

53. awesome

I am disgusted and embarrassed that my state elected this Dick corrupt fucker twice.

[packman]

54. Florida would elect Satan if he was running on the Repuke ticket

Second time Scott ran, my therapist (knee rehab) asked me if she should vote for Scott again. This nurse was a victim - a VICTIM - of Scott's pension looting in a hospital she had worked in and she should have been retired, but had to extend her work years because of him. I told her about his ripping off the government, looting pension funds and being a general-all-round ass. The following week I even gave her articles about his past. Last day in therapy she said she couldn't vote for a Dem and cast her vote for Scott.

[Person 2713]

77. These types truly reveal thier masochistic love for their conservative masters

"It must be"

[Stinky The Clown]

55. That was a thing of sheer beauty. Good on her!

[steve2470]

58. Lake Worth activist Cara Jennings confronts Gov. Scott at Starbucks

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/cara-jennings-lake-worth-activist-confronts-gov-sc/nqzWj/

GAINESVILLE — Cara Jennings, a longtime Lake Worth activist and a former city commissioner, was captured on video Tuesday berating Gov. Rick Scott at a coffee shop over the state’s handling of health care issues and calling him a curse word.

“You cut Medicaid, so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Jennings shouted at Scott as he approached the counter at the Starbucks store in downtown Gainesville. “You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”

Scott and a group of about five people walked into the coffee shop at about 5 p.m. Tuesday and left with a lecture but no coffee. A video of the exchange was captured on a cellphone by a patron and posted to YouTube, where it had been viewed more than 200,000 times as of Wednesday evening.

In Boca Raton on Wednesday for the ceremonial signing of a bill to support Israel, Scott said he had not seen the video and scoffed at the notion of meeting and speaking with Jennings.

more at link

[jonks2746]

66. Good on that lady

And screw Scott. He fucked over Florida bigtime.

[Major Hogwash]

68. We need more people like Cara to confront these sonsabitches.

These Republican Governors hide behind their Republican-controlled state legislatures and act like they are holier than everyone else. We need to have more ordinary people confront these assklowns on a daily basis and show them for what they are, cowards and shitheads!!

[kairos12]

69. He got Starf..... Good.

[Nyan]

70. I hope people all over Florida do exactly what she did, whenever they get to see that scumbag.

Rick Scott and 12 other repug governors who refused ACA shouldn't be able to walk around without being shamed.

[MrModerate]

71. Certainly Scott is an embarrassment to . . .

The felons in federal lockup with whom he should be sharing his morning coffee.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

72. She was on DU in coffee shop

Well maybe not but I like to think so

[KPN]

73. Off with their heads!

The pitchforks are coming.

[SunSeeker]

74. "I'm not talking to you."

I loved it when she shut down that Scott staffer who tried to run interference for Scott. It was a thing of beauty.

[The_Casual_Observer]

75. How about that group of idiots in his entourage running out of there with their tails between their

legs? Imagine the conversation that took place in his limo after that.