Florida PBA and Fraternal Order of Police endorse Alex Sink

There is too much bickering going on here on an important issue, brothers and sisters. Let's look at this another way.

For years, the FOP followed a party line without enough research on the issues. They steadfastly endorsed Republicans, no matter how "out there" the candidates were. Now let's give credit to the organization for recognizing what the Chamber of Commerce cannot: Rick Scott has failed in business, escaping with millions of dollars in his pockets and crippling the company as president; that he lied under oath in a deposition and does not have the integrity to hold state office; he will dismantle funding for public safety and is unfit to hold office.

In my book, integrity matters.

I have voted for Republicans and Democrats alike. I have campaigned to support candidates in both parties and couldn't care less what party the person is attached to.

I have voted for Lawton Chiles for Senate, a moderate Democrat who loved this state and knew the issues better than nearly any one. I have also voted for another Democrat, Bob Graham, a real policy wonk who worked quietyly behind the scenes to move FL into the top tier of most national stages. And I voted for Charlie Crist, A Republican, because he is conservative where it matters - in my pocket - and moderate on personal and social matters, like abortion and education.

This election for governor offers two very different people, my friends. Alex Sink, well educated, experienced, and well-known versus Rick Scott, who has lived in FL only seven years with a record that really ought to scare you when it comes to decision-making, lack of impulse control, and mostly....integrity.

There are those who come on these boards to just stir it up or entertain. But for the rest of us, it is my sincere hope that sworn members will not support a man or woman who does not respect the process of being under oath. Which is why you ought to vote for Alex Sink.

Go to Collier County SO and read what the deputies who work the Naples area say about Rick Scott.

Let's call this a clue: it ain't pretty! They roundly denounce the guy as a fake, a fraud, and a con man.

Go the library and read the newest book by James Keena WE'VE BEEN HAD, How Obama and the Radicals Conned American. Sink is an Obama lover and has the same goals of a Marxist takeover of the nation. She will plunder the pension fund for social programs to give to non - citizens and other shirkers.
Sink will be the biggest disaster Florida has experienced as a Governor in decades. She is a liar, self-centered, and will crush law enforcement morale.

Alex Sink is a Disaster.

She won't say what she is going to cut in order to pay for her huge Social programs. She tells everyone what they want to hear, but instead of answering specific questions about how she will pay for it, she attacks her opponent.

Sink was in charge of Bank of America when they were paying bonuses to steer elderly clients to risky investments instead o the secure ones that they wanted. SINK SAID SHE DIDN"T KNOW.

SINK was involved in SYKES Enterprises when they over inflated the value of their investments to get more money from Clients. SINK SAID SHE DIDN"T KNOW

SINK recieved campaign contributions from Bank of America, whom she later rewarded no bid state contracts to. SINK WON"T TALK ABOUT IT.

The list goes on with various investments of state pension funds that Sinks advisors told her were illegal and risky uses of state money. She ignored these experts and went ahead, losing $24 BILLION in the process.

Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia HCA which owned 340 hospitals. It was a huge corporation. Yes mistakes were made.
Considering that providers are faced with a federal health-care payment system of more than 1,700 pages of law and over 1,200 pages of regulations interpreting those laws, as well as thousands of additional pages of instruction, it is inevitable that human error will occur and that erroneous claims will be submitted.

Thousands of companies paid fines — virtually the entire industry was affected. And many well-known hospitals got hit with multimillion-dollar fines. Among those hit the hardest: Harvard University Hospitals, University of Chicago Hospital, Yale Hospital, Duke University Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

HCA owned 340 hospitals, so it stands to reason that the biggest company would pay the biggest fines.

Rick Scott has admitted that he should have brought in more auditors and done more to make sure the billing complied with the regulations.

Between the two, Rick Scott is my choice for Governor. He is a successful businessman who admits to past errors.

ALEX SINK claims she didn't know, wasn't her responsibility, and blames everyone else for errors on her watch.

To top it off, SHE even cheats during a break in the last DEBATE , gets caught reading a text message after both sides agreed not to receive notes during the debate, and then fires an aide who she blames for sending her the message, but takes no responsibility for reading it. WHAT A LOSER!!!!!

The Florida Police Benevolent Association is backing away from some strident claims in an anti-Rick Scott blast email that even the PBA acknowledges are misleading, inaccurate or poorly worded.

At issue: Scott’s call to change the pension system, cut the Department of Corrections budget by a third and to privatize some prison contracts.

To a big union like the 36,000-strong PBA, which represents prison guards and backs state Democratic FL CFO Alex Sink, that’s a declaration of war. So Miami-Dade President John Rivera blasted out an alert telling members that “your pension is in jeopardy” and that Scott has “vowed to revamp the entire pension system.”

Scott really hasn’t, though. His campaign and website say the Republican candidate wants new state employees to have a defined contribution retirement plan (like a 401k), rather than a defined benefit plan, which can be more lush in a down economy.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-bu...ick-scott.html

ALL UNIONS SUPPORT THE DEMOCRAT SINK! WHAY DON'T THEY TELL THE PEOPLE SENDING THE PBA THOSE LITTLE CHECKS EVERY PAY PERIOD THAT SINK SUNK THEIR RETIREMENT FUNDS IN NYC WITH HER BANK OF AMERICE FRIENDS???? BECAUSE UNIONS LIE JUST LIKE OTHER POLITICIANS THAT'S WHY!
ALEX SINK GAVE$250 MILLION OF OUR FLORIDA MONEY TO A BANK OF AMERICA COMPANY FOR THEIR NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT DEAL AND LOST OUR MONEY! SHE IS A STOCKHOLDER IN BOA! IS THIS FRAUD OR INSIDER DEALINGS LIKE MARTHA STEWART WENT TO JAIL FOR?
Alex Sink sits on the Florida board that invests public money bet $266,780,948. million on a huge Manhattan real estate deal and lost every last penny of it.
Included in the money lost, Florida paid $16 million in fees to real estate developers, bankers and Wall Street money managers who persuaded the state to make the deal.
State elected leaders with potential influence over the pension funds' investments received campaign contributions from some of those same corporate giants. BlackRock, which is 49 percent owned by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, gave $500 to Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink during her 2006 campaign.
McCollum, Crist and Sink, who serve as pension fund trustees, declined to be interviewed. Their aides said there was no connection between political contributions and the investment in the Peter Cooper Village venture. The complexes — Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town — were iconic housing communities, a "city within a city'' on 80 prime acres overlooking the East River. Metropolitan Life built the apartments for returning WWII veterans in the 1940s. They became an oasis for teachers, nurses and retirees on small pensions, one of the last refuges for the middle class in Manhattan.The big loser was the State Board of Administration, which invests more than $105 billion for 1 million current and future retirees. The SBA is however underwritten by the taxpayers of Florida! On this real estate deal alone, its $266 million is now worth a great deal less.

Oh boy! Sink's campaign staffers go into "circle the wagons" mode when you start pointing out empirical facts about her Democrat allegiance. Her college-kid volunteers start attacking the messenger because there is no arguing the message. Sorry, lil missy, I'm not the uneducated rube your liberal talking points say every conservative is. I have a BA from a private university and am just about halfway through with my MBA.
The name Ayn Rand is like displaying a crucifix to a vampire...the liberal socialists recoil in terror.

[Tom]

At issue: Scott’s call to change the pension system, cut the Department of Corrections budget by a third and to privatize some prison contracts.
...Scott really hasn’t, though. His campaign and website say the Republican candidate wants new state employees to have a defined contribution retirement plan (like a 401k), rather than a defined benefit plan, which can be more lush in a down economy.

Bringing new hires in without a pension is the beginning of the end for every body else's pension. You want to let Scott split the union. That is exactly what will happen when new members have different benefits than senior members. A few years down the road the new folks will start to ask why all the fuss over pensions that don't help them. Eventually they will take over the leadership and stop supporting pensions, but before that you will lose your unity. Unity is strength. Without unity you lose your bargaining power.

Divide and conquer.

Don't fall for it.

Hey Ayn! Was the "private university" you attended Nova University? I pick my teeth with that matchbook application! If you're so proud of your college education, why not name it? Or how about St Leo, that bastion of independent thinking? Where are you getting your MBA from? Another temple of higher ed, like the school Chuckie and Melanie went to that doesn't have its own actual campus? Wait, professor, let me hook up my laptop before my group takes the next test. Oops! Did I say several people are helping with this exam? My bad!

But back to the point: your intellectual power is astounding based on your cogent political discourse.

Take your swagger back to the 2nd floor where only the equipment room officer is impressed with you, Annie. Leave the serious discussion to the truly educated.

Watch this and tell me you trust Rick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYgTjVULTbk

Don't vote for this con artist.