Rick Scott “has spent the past three years dismantling the division of the Department of Environmental Protection,” cutting the team from 40 experts to skeleton crew of just 14. When a major corporation offered to donate $4 million worth of land on the state’s preservation list to the people of Florida, Rick Scott’s DEP said “no thanks.”

Now Rick Scott wants the people of Florida to believe that he’s on the side of Florida’s biggest economic engine, our environment? … Here’s the truth: Floridians know this governor’s record, and they just won’t buy Rick Scott’s latest deathbed-conversion.

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