Rick Scott asked to tone down optimism
Bloomberg's Michael Bender, who reported yesterday on the chilly Rick Scott-Mitt Romney relationship, delivers this interesting nugget overnight:Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Scott, a Republican, was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate could improve faster under a Romney presidency, according to the people, who asked not to be named.
What’s unfolding in Florida highlights a dilemma for the Romney campaign: how to allow Republican governors to take credit for economic improvements in their states while faulting Obama’s stewardship of the national economy. Republican governors in Ohio, Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin also have highlighted improving economies.A month ago, Scott released a statement declaring that "brighter days" had arrived for Florida's economy.
Read it at Politico:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/rick-scott-asked-to-tone-down-optimism-126877.html
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