Rick Scott: McConnell Runs Senate As “Dictatorship”

Florida Politics reports:

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott told supporters at a Sarasota rally that he’s trying to end abuse of power in the Senate. And it’s not just the Democratic majority he wants out, he said, as he trashed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell by name.

“In the Senate, there’s two dictatorships,” the Naples Republican said. “There’s a McConnell dictatorship on the Republican side, and then there’s the (Charles) Schumer dictatorship.”

Schumer, a New York Democrat, serves as Majority Leader, but by Scott’s telling, Schumer and McConnell effectively decide final policy decisions in private and dictate to caucuses what to support on the floor.

Read the full article. Scott is running for GOP Senate Leader in hopes that Republicans win control of the chamber in November.

.@SenRickScott slams Mitch McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) for Senate dictatorship

Reporting by @JacobOgleshttps://t.co/zb7qpLx5l6#FlaPol

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