After calling a public relations consultant a “tax-payer subsidized slut\u201d, Tampa Aviation Authority Board member Sam Rashid resigned earlier this month. Now the aviation authority president has called out Rick Scott to quickly name a replacement, but today the Governor says he is in no hurry.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike all boards, we\u2019re going to take out time to find a good person. We\u2019ve made significant investments in the airport, they\u2019ve got a major expansion going on, the airport is doing very well. I\u2019m going to make sure we get a good person\u201d says Scott.<\/p>\n

Rick Scott appointed Rashid to the Aviation Authority in June 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After calling a public relations consultant a “tax-payer subsidized slut\u201d, Tampa Aviation Authority Board member Sam Rashid resigned earlier this month. Now the aviation authority president has called out Rick Scott to quickly name a replacement, but today the Governor says he is in no hurry. \u201cLike all boards, we\u2019re going to take out time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28704,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696\/revisions\/28704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}