“At this point, I just can’t move,” Scott said in a speech delivered in the House Chamber to haltingly jammed and viewership TV live, with lawmakers the s full of flower commemmorative. “I asked again today to send me a budget that significantly increases State funds for education. This is one of the most important decisions we can make this day for Florida’s future. ”
Scott last spring signed a budget that cuts spending on schools by $ 1.3 billion. But in a series of meetings with parents across the country, he said they were convinced favored more money for school, and in an election year, the emphasis on education is likely to be well received by the voters.
He said the three most important goals as Governor to ensure that people have jobs and quality education and maintain a low cost of living. He called for reforms to reduce fraud in the automobile insurance system errors are not Florida, and he spoke in private personal job history, including running two donut shops.
In his address to the legislature dominated by Republicans, Scott claims that in the past year, the country saw 135,000 new jobs the private sector and a drop in unemployment among the State’s second largest (2 percent). He celebrated the census figures show that Florida grows more than 250,000 people over the past 15 months.