An amazing little story out of Florida. Former Rep. and now Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) was the de facto Republican nominee for Governor this year. That was until far-right former health care exec Rick Scott got done trying to kill Health Care Reform (he was the one running all the ads as ‘Conservatives for Patients Rights’) and decided to hop into the race and spend a ton of his own money to get the nomination for himself. Suddenly, McCollum looks like he just might lose the whole thing.
Those who remember McCollum as a House impeachment manager or the guy who spent a ton of taxpayer money retaining George Rekers for his expertise on the evils of homosexuality probably won’t be too broken up about it. But McCollum may be the more reasonable of the two candidates. And Dems may prefer running against a guy whose company had to pay a massive settlement for overcharging Medicare and Medicaid.
