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Viral Video Saga with Governor, Constituent Gets Personal

April 11th, 2016 by flanews

The saga involving Florida’s Governor and a shouting Starbucks patron got even more personal over the weekend. As Matt Galka tells us, the governor’s political committee released an attack ad against the woman, baffling political consultants.

The clip continues to live in internet infamy. Florida Governor Rick Scott was screamed at by Cara Jennings in a Gainesville Starbucks.

The viral video has now been viewed over two million times…but the Governor’s political committee didn’t just sit around take it.

Let’s Get to Work launched an attack ad at the woman over the weekend, complete with its own insults.

Political strategists say both sides are in the wrong. Democratic strategist Steve Schale says nothing’s been accomplished because of the video.

“This is the kind of discourse that just drives people away from the process, gets people frustrated, I think in the end they needed to be better people. She needed to be more respectful, he needed to not respond,” said Schale.

And Kevin Cate – who helped lead Charlie Crist’s failed bid against the Governor in 2014’s election – says the attack ad is even more embarrassing for Scott than the original video.

“I think the only comparison you can make, as far as the vitriol is concerned, is Donald Trump. We know Rick Scott loves Donald Trump, maybe this was his trial of a new persona where he’s going to attack every day citizens,” said Cate.

The Lets Get to Work Committee didn’t immediately return our calls for comment.

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