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What Florida woman's coffee shop debate with Rick Scott says about jobs
When a Florida woman confronted Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday in a coffee shop about his decision to decline an expansion of Medicaid, her angry words represented a rare opportunity to talk directly about the personal impact of decisions made in faraway state capitols.
“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Cara Jennings, a former city commissioner in Lake Worth, Fla., shouted at the governor, a Republican, as he waited for his order at a Starbucks in Gainesville, in an encounter captured on video.
Ms. Jennings then referred to Scott with an expletive, adding, “You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”
After Scott responded by telling her that he had created a million jobs, she gestured sarcastically around the room, asking, “Who here has a great job?
“You stripped women of access to public healthcare,” Jennings says in the video as it appears Scott and his staff exit the Starbucks without their coffee.
“Shame on you, Rick Scott. We depend on those services, rich people like you don’t know what to do, when poor people like us need health services, you cut ‘em.”
While the encounter stunned many in the store into silence, she says, afterwards the reaction was different. The user who took the video mutters, “Sweet!” as it ends.
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Republicans think they are being cute screwing over Americans who aren't rich.
It's not cute. It's disgraceful.
When a Florida woman confronted Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday in a coffee shop about his decision to decline an expansion of Medicaid, her angry words represented a rare opportunity to talk directly about the personal impact of decisions made in faraway state capitols.
“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” Cara Jennings, a former city commissioner in Lake Worth, Fla., shouted at the governor, a Republican, as he waited for his order at a Starbucks in Gainesville, in an encounter captured on video.
Ms. Jennings then referred to Scott with an expletive, adding, “You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face around here.”
After Scott responded by telling her that he had created a million jobs, she gestured sarcastically around the room, asking, “Who here has a great job?
“You stripped women of access to public healthcare,” Jennings says in the video as it appears Scott and his staff exit the Starbucks without their coffee.
“Shame on you, Rick Scott. We depend on those services, rich people like you don’t know what to do, when poor people like us need health services, you cut ‘em.”
While the encounter stunned many in the store into silence, she says, afterwards the reaction was different. The user who took the video mutters, “Sweet!” as it ends.
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Republicans think they are being cute screwing over Americans who aren't rich.
It's not cute. It's disgraceful.
