Ouch, Rick. Gators, we just got snubbed.
Republican governor candidate Rick Scott announced Wednesday he would agree to only two debates rather than the five Democratic candidate Alex Sink suggested.
And the planned debate at UF is off the table thanks to Scott.
Scott is no stranger to snubbing his debate opponents, as he refused to debate Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum Aug. 11 before the Aug. 24 primary, turning the "debate" into a one-man show for McCollum.
Saying this is just another example of Scott trying to hide the truth from Florida voters, Sink's campaign stresses it still wants to hold five public debates within the next two months.
And what does Scott have to hide?
Not much. Just a teensy tiny situation in which he was ousted as the CEO of Columbia/HCA when it committed the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history, resulting in the company repaying the U.S. government a whopping total of $1.7 billion.
But that's just chunk change for Scott, who one might say (of course, we would never say this), but one might say is trying to buy his ticket to the governor's mansion through nonstop 30-second mudslinging commercials that plague our efforts to watch "Jeopardy!" in peace.
We're glad Scott hasn't completely snubbed Florida voters and his opponent by agreeing to two debates, but Gators, we have to ask ourselves an important question.
Do we really want to elect a governor who is hesitant to speak with us just five times?
But, perhaps more importantly, do we really want to elect a governor who is hesitant to speak with us just five times and who was also the CEO of the company involved in the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history?
