Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign slammed a woman who shouted him down in a Starbucks this week as an “anarchist” who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in a video released Friday.
“You may have seen this video of a terribly rude woman at a coffee shop cursing and screaming at Gov. Scott,” a voiceover begins the video, which is dubbed “Latte Liberal Gets An Earful.”
The woman, identified by local media as former Palm Beach County Commissioner Cara Jennings, shouted, “you’re an asshole!” when Scott walked into a Gainesville, Florida Starbucks.
After cutting to Jennings questioning Scott’s oft-repeated promise to create one million jobs, the voiceover continues: “Well, that woman clearly has a problem. And it turns out she’s a former government official who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance and calls herself an anarchist.”
After highlighting two enlarged images of Jennings’ face, the video cuts to a map of the neighborhood around the Starbucks to highlight jobs created in the area.
The video ends with a voiceover concluding “almost everybody” has a job, “except those who are sitting around coffee shops, demanding public assistance, surfing the internet, and cursing at customers.”
Jennings isn’t running for office, but the video quickly went viral after it was posted online earlier this week.
Watch the video, via Let’s Get to Work on YouTube:
Wow! In other words, the incident in the coffee shop really stung!
Imbecilic political/strategic incompetence. Like Brownback going after the HS student who dissed him on FB. All this does is keep it in the news and make Governor Voldemort look like a thin-skinned bully. This is absolute gold for FL Dems–GET HIM!
Who ever the person is giving Gov. Skelator PR advice he or she should be fired. Talk about making the governor look small and petty. Then again he is so why not reinforce that image.
OMG. Can’t believe the guv just couldn’t let this one go!
If a single penny in public funds was used to research or produce this bullying, Skeletor should be criminally charged.