Rick Scott blocked $70 million in available federal funds for fighting Florida's HIV crisis

[KnighttimeJoe]

Probably fake news, blah blah, TDS, snowflake, whatever.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/florida-hiv-rick-scott-republican-governor

An extensive investigation by the Guardian reports that while governor, Rick Scott blocked $70 million in available federal funds for fighting Florida's HIV crisis, likely hastening the state's record rate of infections.

In the report, Florida's HIV/AIDS administrator from 2014 to 2016 under Scott, Marlene LaLota, is quoted saying, "I think Rick Scott fueled the epidemic in Florida."

The report found that from 2015 to 2017, "Florida was forced to return to the federal government $54 million in unspent grants for combating HIV." This was due to an apparently deliberate failure under Scott to get legislative permission to spend the funds. The administration forbade administrators from talking about the funds with legislators.

"Rick Scott had us all on lockdown," LaLota said in the report. "It didn’t used to be like that with previous governors."

 

[firm_bizzle]

You know that RS likes to save us money.

 

[goodknightfl]

He was helping Obama keep the Federal deficit down.
Bipartisanship at its best.

 

[bluechip12]

Particularly surprising since wealthy people from gated communities are the people affected by HIV most often.*

 

[UCFWayne]

RS did a great job during the hurricane, but pretty much everything else he was terrible at. he should be in jail for that medicare fraud thing he did years ago.

 

[hemightbejeremy]

His company was also fined 1.7 billion for Medicare fraud. Skeletor is one slimy MF.