Rick Scott Posts Revenge Clip Against Critic [VIDEO]

The Wrap reports:

Way to spend those tax dollars, Florida. After a video of a woman cursing him out in a coffee shop went viral this week, Florida Governor Rick Scott decided to unleash his own retaliatory clip on the world — and his very vocal critic. The video, titled “Latte Liberal Gets an Earful,” begins with a brief replay of the verbal barrage Scott encountered. And then calls her out as an unpatriotic, anarchistic monster.

“That woman clearly has a problem,” the video’s narration informs the viewer. “And it turns out that she’s a former government official who refused to recite the pledge of allegiance and calls herself an anarchist.” The woman has been identified as Cara Jennings by Tampa Bay ABC affiliate WFTS.

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Jennings, a political activist who served on the Lake Worth city commission previously, lives in Palm Beach County in South Florida. She was in Gainesville for a job, she said, and stopped into Starbucks to work and have coffee. The Let’s Get to Work response video shocked her, she said.

“The governor and his (committee) are acting like bullies,” she said. “I confronted the governor about his policies that impact my life. This is a form of intimidation, but it’s more of the same craziness that we’ve seen from him.”

Rick Wilson, a veteran GOP strategist and media consultant, said it’s not unusual for politicians to take aim at private citizens who are involved in politics. But he said he was still “surprised” at Scott’s decision to use his political committee to go after Jennings.

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