America's oil and gas industry is making a serious investment in Gov. Rick Scott's U.S. Senate campaign.
If you live in Florida, your Governor and republican candidate for Senator is having a love affair with the fossil fuel industry. They give him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and what will he give them in return? Don’t let us find out. Make sure he gets sent home to wherever he comes from (Tennessee, before he invaded your state).
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America's oil and gas industry is making a serious investment in Gov. Rick Scott's U.S. Senate campaign.
Scott's midyear campaign report shows at least $880,000 in contributions from oil, gas and energy executives and employees to his campaign and from the industry to a pro-Scott super PAC. The industry is generally aligned with Republican candidates.
Scott, a wealthy former hospital executive, has also been a major investor in oil and gas firms that in federal filings with the SEC have expressed strong opposition to stricter environmental regulations and climate change policies.
Scott's eight-year-long lack of interest in any climate change policy has won him support from the energy industry. Scott's campaign replied that Nelson's filing also included thousands of dollars from oil and energy industry employees and industry PACs.Scott's campaign has accused rival Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson of inconsistency on offshore drilling, and ran a TV ad with a video clip of Nelson saying he had "no objection" to drilling at a time when Barack Obama was president.
