Florida Gov. Rick Scott attended a secret, invitation-only meeting outside Vail, Colo., hosted by conservative billionaire GOP donors David and Charles Koch, the governors staff confirmed today.
The meeting wasnt on Scotts official schedule and his spokesman Lane Wright initially refused to confirm or deny whether the first-term governor would make an appearance, saying he would not speculate as to what he has done, or will do on his personal time.
But, after The St. Petersburg Times reported Tuesday Scott did attend the meeting, Wright confirmed that the governor was there but would not say whether Scott was in Colorado on Sunday or Monday.
I told anybody who asked me, Scott, in Washington, D.C., told the Times, without revealing too much about what took place.
It was very interesting, he told the Times. They wanted to know basically what am I doing in Florida.
Scott, the self-proclaimed jobs governor, joined at least three other conservative Republican heads-of-state at the semi-annual meeting.
Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Bob McDonnell of Virginia all dropped into the conference, entitled Understanding and Addressing Threats to American Enterprise and Prosperity. And Scotts competitor-in-chief, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, addressed the group on Sunday, the first of the four-day meeting that wraps up Wednesday.
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The meeting wasnt on Scotts official schedule and his spokesman Lane Wright initially refused to confirm or deny whether the first-term governor would make an appearance, saying he would not speculate as to what he has done, or will do on his personal time.
But, after The St. Petersburg Times reported Tuesday Scott did attend the meeting, Wright confirmed that the governor was there but would not say whether Scott was in Colorado on Sunday or Monday.
I told anybody who asked me, Scott, in Washington, D.C., told the Times, without revealing too much about what took place.
It was very interesting, he told the Times. They wanted to know basically what am I doing in Florida.
Scott, the self-proclaimed jobs governor, joined at least three other conservative Republican heads-of-state at the semi-annual meeting.
Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Bob McDonnell of Virginia all dropped into the conference, entitled Understanding and Addressing Threats to American Enterprise and Prosperity. And Scotts competitor-in-chief, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, addressed the group on Sunday, the first of the four-day meeting that wraps up Wednesday.
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