Rick Scott’s Brilliant Pick for LG- State Rep. Jennifer Carroll
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Awesome selection…
So proud of Rick for this pick. This was obviously at the advice of the establishment and is already showing Scott’s ability to make good choices with sage advice. Let’s get to work!
Brilliant, no doubt about it! They both served their Nation, both conservatives, and each completes the other by bringing in valuable and different life experiences..GO RICK!! GO JENN!! THE GOP’s BACK, BABY!!!
After all the voters get to know this dynamic personality, Jennifer Carroll, they will realize what a great pick it is. Leaders are only as good as the people around them. Hats off to Rick
Javier,
Brilliant?
Why exactly is she brilliant? Because she’s black and a woman?
Exactly what are her qualifications?
Oh yeah, she’s a legal immigrant from Trinidad?
Well bless my britches.
As an white American I could care less that we could get a black LG legal immigrant from Trinidad?
I’d rather have a white American like Rod Smith.
Carroll is an undistinguished legislator who hasn’t accomplished much in four years in Tally besides being a far right wing nut job follower of the Jebster.
So she was in the Navy….whoop de doo! Did she ever see combat? NO!
You guys are dreaming if you think the medicare fraud con artist Rick Scott and his black Trinidadian LG candidate will get elected.
Lol keep it comin’, Joe. It’s almost over. Sink will be washing dishes at the local food court after this election is overwith. Sink dealing with ponzi’ schemers and helping oversee some of the biggest spending in Florida history (thank you idiot Crist as well). People want an outsider. They want someone who has been a successful businessman.
nice pick, now let;s see if he really delivers on his promises of creating jobs
Joe blow’s comment are offensive to all members of the military. I, like Ms. Carroll enlisted in the Navy and then advanced through the ranks to become an aircraft maintenance officer(MO). In such a capacity one is responsible for creating good relations with multiple departments and organizations. The MO has limited assets and must work with what they have to be successful and accomplish the mission. The MO is responsible for 200 plus enlisted men with diverse needs and problems. One does not advance if they do not have excellent people and management skills.
Ms. Carroll has proven her patriotism through her dedicated service. So I say hurray and thank you to Ms. Carroll.
This plus her legislative experience makes Ms. Carroll a brilliant pick, because I know what it took to do her job in the Navy. Thank you Rick Scott.
I gave money to G Carrol when she retired from the Navy to run for the house. If Mr Scott continues with this type of exercises I may have to start to support him– (eating a little crow here)–
It seems that you are correct that he made the right choice. Now all he has to do is review his education plan so that it doesn’t include the archaic government controlling concepts that SB6 did.
Our society must validate education as well as conservative ideals and this starts with recognizing the value of education and acknowledging its worth by paying teachers who have higher degrees more.
Our conservative ideals also should continue to recognize local control and smaller government by allowing local control of education.
Our conservative values should continue to promote personal accountability and choice which includes individual choices made by parents and students which impact academic success.
Following Republican values the neither the government nor government employees should be in control nor held responsible for individual choices.
Sadly one of Rick Scott’s representatives said that he would not have vetoed the bill as Crist did. That is unfortunate. But maybe just as Crist did Rick Scott will rethink the issue and realize how un-Republican it was and change his mind. After all education and maturity is all about tossing out our less inaccurate concepts and replacing them with better ones as we learn and mature.
Everyone can respect a person that re-evaluates their position and improves on it. But who can really respect a person that stubbornly refuses to listen and learn.
I must say that I am very impressed with Scott’s pick for LG. It shows that he is a very astute person. If he governs as well as his choices, Fl will be on the road to recovery and job creation. I have to say that I voted for McCollum, but I am ready to give Scott a chance as governor.
Marts Zayas is right on target about SB 6. I am active in the Republican Party and fail to understand how such bad legislation came from the Republicans. It simply shows a complete lack of understanding of who is responsible for educating our youth. The FCAT has become the curriculum driver from AUG to FEB each year. After that students can learn the really important things for 3 months.
Parents are primarily responsible for a child’s attitude and and readiness for learning. They are responsible for helping the child at home. The best students get help and support from home. The school system must provide the capital assets and curriculum and materials to facilitate learning. Yes the teacher is responsible in the classroom, but they must work with what they have. The teachers try to make up the lack of support from parents and the system, but to base
their merit increases on the students’s test scores is unfair.
Teachers from schools in districts where the parents are higher achievers are blessed with better students because they have a better support system.
SB6 was simply another dumb response to place blame for failure on the wrong people and a sorry way to say we Republicans did something. The only people to benefit from this would be the publishers of the tests. Let’s give the schools and teachers this extra money for supplies and salaries. Every teacher I know ends up spending their own money to provide things to help teach their children.
Why not make the parents of children who receive bad grades pay extra fees? Why not pay teachers with challenging students an added bonus for the extra workload? Or better yet, why not get federal & state governments out of the way and let the schools decide things on a local basis? But PLEASE NO MORE SB6.
Jennifer Carroll is a lady for whom I have a great deal of respect and admiration. She is a wonderful choice for Lt. Governor.
I am one of the people who disagreed with Crist’s vetoing a bill which would’ve allowed merit pay for teachers who produced 50% success rate.
CEO’s, certain politicians and teachers are the only people who receive pay raises for producing failure! Teachers who are producing success don’t have to worry about receiving pay raises. We’re talking about our children here. We can’t afford to continue producing children who have learned nothing.
Blow job,
You are truly fearful of the Scott/Carroll run for the state’s high-est offices,get used to the idea,OK.
I will say this-you are a good little democrat.
Get real you McToady right wing pinheads! You’ve been smoking some funny stuff if you really think Floridians are going to elect Rick Scott the medicare fraud con artist who ripped off taxpayers for close to $2 billion.
We know you R’s aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed but even Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could see through this crook.
How many times did Rick use the 5th to refuse to answer questions regarding his Solantic company? You know the one who discriminated against blacks and hispanics?
Then Rick’s other company took millions in Obama bailout money although he makes it a point to trash Obama for the stimulus.
You R’s are a maleable bunch of pinheads! No wonder Florida and our nation are in the shitter!
Great choice, Rick.
The whole country needs people who have actually worked and Rick and Ms Carroll have. Let’s get to work!
@Joe
So you’d rather vote for a Democrat, who will support and vote for Obama’s agenda which will help finish off our country?!
Also, let’s not forget that the Party in the majortiy in the Florida Legislature will be the Party who decides on the lines of redistricting (this year) so that it will be very easy to get Dems elected in the future… which means that we won’t get rid of the Democrat agenda for many, many years! As a result, America as we once knew it, will exist no more!
Furthermore, you need to voice something substantive, instead of childish, personal attacks.
And also, quite frankly, most of us who have fought for racial equality long before it was the “in” thing to do, are sick of hearing the “victim” card, and the “race” card. We fought initially as young, white Democrats, but after seeing the truth of the Democrat agenda, we switched parties and are now Republicans. Just as Rev. Martin Luther King said… Let us stand shoulder to shoulder with all races. Let a man be judged by the content of his heart, not by the color of his skin. But people like you, the Sharpton’s and the Obama’s don’t really want that… (which is why people like you and Obama have set race relations back 100 years), because once we have obliterated racism, then Obama’s, Sharpton ‘s and Jackson’s will have lost their meal tickets!! I’m tired of it, and so are most Americans!
Where were all of you when my friends and I were working in Alan Keyes’ campaign? Where was Jesse Jackson? Where was Al Sharpton? Where was Barrack Obama? Nowhere to be found!!!! Why weren’t they protesting the fact that the mainstream media wouldn’t even televise the debates (the debates where Alan Keyes won every single debate)? Why weren’t they protesting the fact that the DC elites tried to keep Keyes out of the debates altogether? They were nowhere to be found! Because you and I both know that it wasn’t about RACE… it was always about values and principles. But if for no other reason, Obama, Jackson and Sharpton should’ve been protesting to have an African American at least heard. This was never the case! When Keyes was finally invited to speak on BET, they had three African Americans talking over him the entire time, opposing everything he said, so that no one could even hear his message. This is why most African American’s don’t even know who Alan Keyes is (and neither do many Caucasions for that matter)!!!!!
We, “white people” who worked to try to get Keyes elected, and protested when the media didn’t even want to have him included in the debates, would stand right now to support replacing Pres Obama, with Alan Keyes, Ken Blackwell, Thomas Sowell, Lt. Col. Alan West, or any other African American whose principles are in line with the aforementioned men who represent real men/real leaders/ and real patriots! What part of this don’t you get??????
I know who Alan Keyes is and I like your commentary!
To the people complaining about SB6, the intent of the bill was to create some kind of performance-based criteria for evaluating teachers as opposed to simply paying them according to the number of years they’ve been teaching. Regardless of whether the parent’s prepare the child to learn, it would be very simple to create a baseline of a student at the beginning of the year, measure again at the end of the year then compare the two. An overall grade could be given each teacher based on the difference.
Since the ultimate blame for any failures in the education system in the state of Florida is placed on the parent’s, measuring the before and after would negate that bad influence to a large degree. Anyone who knows anything about statistics can figure this out. It boggles the mind that teachers are so resistant to merit-based pay.
Next, teachers with advanced degrees should NOT automatically be paid more. Teachers in critical shortage areas such as Math and Science should be paid more. Teachers who agree to teach in undesirable schools should earn more also. Why? Because it’s a matter of supply and demand. Simply being more educated is not a reason to pay someone more money. Being educated in a field where there is seemingly a never-ending shortage is reason to pay more regardless of the level of education. It’s economics 101 and I fail to understand why our school districts haven’t been able to figure it out yet.
Lastly, the one comment that I did agree with was having local control of schools. The cities at the very least should run the schools.
Oh, and on topic, yes, this was an excellent pick. Shrewd and politically brilliant to say the very least…