You should be ashamed': Florida governor heckled at Starbucks in video |
The incident, captured on video at a Gainesville store, shows a woman, articular by bounded TV base WFTS as Cara Jennings, calling Scott "an a------" whose advance for Medicaid cuts prevented her from accepting bloom affliction beneath the Affordable Affliction Act.
"You cut Medicaid, so I couldn't get Obamacare," the woman said, afterwards adding: "You don't affliction about alive people. You should be abashed to appearance your face about here."
Scott smiled. "Oh really?" he replied, advertence that he's helped actualize a actor jobs.
"A actor jobs? Great! Who actuality has a abundant job?" the woman said.
Shortly after, Scott and his associates headed for the door.
"Shame on you, Rick Scott!," she said. "Rich humans like you don't apperceive what to do."
The video, acquaint by a man articular by Politico as Stephen Bender, has accumulated added than 170,000 angle as of Wednesday afternoon.
Melissa Sellers, a adviser for Scott, acicular to a 2010 contour of Jennings that describes her as an anarchist.
"It’s a chargeless country, but its not at all hasty that an agitator prefers shouting over conversation," Sellers said.
As Politico notes, Scott against an amplification of Medicaid beneath the Affordable Affliction Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.
Last year, Scott sued the federal government to abstain an amplification of Medicaid.
He eventually apoplectic the clothing and the Obama administering agreed to let Florida abide its own added Medicaid affairs accepted as Low Income Pool.
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