Rick Scott gets "pink slip" reception during Springtime parade in Tallahassee today.

[madfloridian]

Update: Gov. Scott gets warm -- sometimes heated -- reception at Springtime parade


Gov. Rick Scott waves to Springtime Tallahassee festival visitors, ignoring a large cluster of “Pink Slip Rick” picket signs that greeted him as grand marshal of the capital’s annual parade. A large number of vocal supports also turned out to shout support for Scott’s budget policies. (BILL COTTERELL/Democrat)

The first Florida governor to smile and wave his way down Monroe Street as grand marshal of the Springtime Tallahassee parade got a warm – sometimes heated – welcome this morning from spectators who lined the route.

Gov. Rick Scott slipped on a colorful string of beads and eschewed a Chrysler convertible with his name on it, grabbing the hand of his wife Ann for the mile-long walk from the base of Thomasville Road to Gaines Street. Hundreds of bright pink picket signs, emblazoned “Pink Slip Rick” greeted him on both sides of the route, with hundreds of spectators jeering and protesting his budget policies.

UNFORTUNATELY:

But hundreds also applauded loudly, shouting encouragement and flashing thumbs-up as the couple strode by. The Lincoln High School band grouped around them for photographs as the Scotts strolled from the governor’s mansion, as dozens of costumed krewe participants and parade figureheads – along with tourists and other spectators – stopped by to meet the chief executive before the parade started.

...He smilingly shrugged off a question about the protestors, saying “it’s always great to be in a parade like this one.”

Smug b*****d. And to all those cheering him, are you guys aware of anything at all? Do you not know what he is doing to your state?

On edit: I see the link to the Tallahassee Democrat is one of those that becomes pay to subscribe after you get to read the article for free on Google one time.

[madfloridian]

1. Glad to see some Floridians getting organized like this.

It's not easy to do that here.

[gateley]

2. Just wait until those "cheering him on" become affected by this draconian measures. nt

[madfloridian]

3. Too many, like some of our neighbors, will never believe he is to blame.

They will never make the connection between him and the things he is doing. It's like a radical kind of disconnect.

[gateley]

5. People like that make me feel like I can't breathe. I'm sorry you've got some of those

in your hood. :(

[madfloridian]

6. The good thing is that more are paying attention and getting it...

than before. So that is good.

I have often said we have our own little special kind of bible belt, so to speak. There are more churches in our city than are needed, mostly evangelical. Heavily Southern Baptist.

[Hugabear]

9. Exactly. They'll find some way to blame Obama for it

These teabaggers aren't exactly a rational bunch

[PatSeg]

13. Yep, just like those who supported

Bush for eight years and still repeat the lies the rest of the world knows were not true.

If Scott's policies do end up affecting your neighbors negatively, they'll probably just find a way to blame Obama.

[russspeakeasy]

15. In my neighborhood they like to blame democrats in general

They think that makes them non-racist and tolerant of
"others".

[PatSeg]

16. Sadly, they're not bright enough

to see how transparent they are. They are so easily manipulated and brainwashed, and they'll never even see that its happening to them. If they had any real sense of history, they could see that those in power have been using and abusing their kind for centuries.

[sixmile]

4. Good on ya, Tallahasseeans!

-your soul brothers and sisters to the south.

[onethatcares]

7. whos paying for the Xe contractors walking with him?

is he dipping into his own money for protection or is that a state benny?

[madfloridian]

10. Is that who that is?

That would be a state benefit, I imagine. How can you tell?

[Mnemosyne]

8. If that is not a look of oblivian... n/t

[madfloridian]

11. I agree. I think he thinks he is a hero.

[Mnemosyne]

12. I see the hero point exactly. Apparently the idiot hasn't looked behind him.

[russspeakeasy]

14. Scott is an unconvicted crook and he laughs at us dupes.

[Riley18]

17. Springtime for Hitler and Germany becomes Sprintime for pRick..

[jmowreader]

18. I must say this in his favor...

Considering what a slimy scumbag puke piece of shit he is (and I don't think he had to work at it), he's got the biggest balls in history to be able to show his face in public.

[madfloridian]

19. He believes he is considered a hero.

He really does think that.

[olegramps]

20. So did Hitler and those who supported that freak of nature.