RICK SCOTT VS. ALEX SINK ON THE ISSUES: Health Care, Taxes, Education, Abortion, Guns…(FLGOV Voter guide)
Posted by FactReal on October 20, 2010
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| 1. | Flagler Live (9/12/2010): Scott, who headed and funded a group that fought President Obama’s health-care overhaul last year, supports a lawsuit filed by Florida and other states to challenge the constitutionality of what Scott calls “Obamacare.” | |
| 2. | Americans for Tax Reform: In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. Rick Scott signed the pledge. | |
| 3. | Faith & Freedom Coalition, Flagler Live (9/12/2010): “I’m absolutely opposed to abortion,” Scott told the newspaper. | |
| 4. | Christian Coalition of Florida, Flagler Live (9/12/2010): Scott said in an August interview with the Florida Baptist Witness newspaper that he would have signed the bill [to require ultrasound before an abortion]. “I’m absolutely opposed to abortion,” Scott told the newspaper. | |
| 5. | Christian Coalition of Florida. | |
| 6. | St. Petersburg Times (9/29/2010): “Parents ought to have a right to choose a school for their kids,” said Scott. ”Competition is good.” If elected, Scott said he would expand educational choice programs. [Scott] accused [Sink] of “simply throwing more taxpayer dollars at an outdated system.” Christian Coalition of Florida. |
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| 7. | The NRA gives Rick Scott an A = Solidly pro-gun candidate. A candidate who has supported NRA positions on key votes in elective office or a candidate with a demonstrated record of support on Second Amendment issues. | |
| 8. | Flagler Live (9/12/2010): Sink’s campaign blasted the lawsuit [against Obamacare], saying she “does not agree with using our tax dollars to advance a partisan, political agenda on an issue as important and personal as health care — or trying to overturn these needed reforms before they’re even given a chance to work.” “Also, if Florida was not able to take advantage of these reforms, which were better than nothing, our state would be at a severe disadvantage economically.” | |
| 9. | Americans for Tax Reform: In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. Alex Sink did not sign the pledge. | |
| 10. | Tampa Bay (5/9/2010). | |
| 11. | Flagler Live (9/12/2010): In June,…Sink issued a news release praising Crist for vetoing a bill that would have required women to undergo ultrasounds before they could receive abortions. She said the bill would have interfered with a personal decision women should make with their families and doctors. [But she supports Obamacare which will interfere with every health decision of every American]. | |
| 12. | The Florida Time-Union (9/22/2010): Sink hails ruling against gay adoption ban. | |
| 13. | St. Petersburg Times (9/29/2010): Sink has said she doesn’t want to increase voucher programs for now…[Sink's] education plan would eventually increase the state’s share of education funding by relying on sources of revenue other than property taxes — but she won’t specifically say how she’ll do that. | |
| 14. | The NRA gives Alex Sink an F = True enemy of gun owners’ rights. A consistent anti-gun candidate who always opposes gun owners’ rights and/or actively leads anti-gun legislative efforts, or sponsors anti-gun legislation. | |
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