Allegations of questionable billing (again) at Prick Scott's company.

[Orlandodem]

Rick Scott, the Republican front-runner for Florida governor, said Thursday that a video deposition he gave in a lawsuit over a healthcare company is none of the public's business.

``It's a private matter and I will not release the deposition,'' Scott said.

Scott made the comments at a hastily called press conference in which he unexpectedly flew to Tallahassee to accuse his Republican rival, Attorney General Bill McCollum, of abusing his power by attempting to sic state investigators on the company involved in the lawsuit, Solantic Urgent Care, which Scott founded in 2001.

He said the attorney general's campaign staff were also phoning and knocking on the doors of current and former employees, and customers of Solantic's to trash the chain of walk-in clinics.

``This is a clear abuse of power. This is exactly what thugs do in third-world countries to keep power,'' Scott said. ``Bill McCollum is the Tonya Harding of Florida politics,'' he said, referring to the figure skater linked to a brutal attack on a rival in 1994.



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