Former Gov. Jeb Bush was in Homestead Friday to campaign for Gov. Rick Scott. But, knowing a good earned media moment when she sees one, 
Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell, former mayor of Homestead, got a well-timed photo op for her own re-election bid.
Bell dropped by the B&K Installations, a company that builds custom-made greenhouses, where Bush was stumping with Scott. Also there: State Rep. Holly Raschein (R-Key Largo) and a councilman from one of the south end towns who Ladra does not recognize (that’s him in the middle with his hands behind his back).
Friday morning’s event focused on Scott’s message as a job creator. “In three-and-a-half years, over 622,000 jobs and last month over 2,100 private sector jobs,” Scott told reporters at the event.
Bush, who joined Scott for the first time on the campaign trail, boasted about how Scott would join him as the only other Republican guv to serve for two terms if he is re-elected.
“Rick Scott is going to be reelected,” said Bush. “And join me, by the way, as the only other republican governor to have been reelected in Florida’s history.”
But none of the news organizations there reported what was said by Bell, who spoke at the event and has also been citing jobs creation and her support of small businesses as one of her reasons to re-elect her.
Even Jeb and Raschein seem disinterested in what she has to say, since they’re engrossed in their own conversation.
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I can only be thankful that I do not live in district 8. Voting in that election is like chosing between breathing eternal flatulence or swimming forever in a pool of excrement.
This is the best argument for putting non of the above on the ballot.
Yes, living in district 8 has been like being locked in a smelly sewer treatment plant while our commissioner jets around the world, sends out selfies with international sport icons and works out back room deals to hand our parks and taxes over to her billionaire contributors.
But hey, but she gave me a book bag with her name on it and sent this nice man to get my ballot so Im voting.
What is going on with Bell’s speech impairment? Everyone always comments on it but no one likes ti mention it. Pay attention… It gets worse when she’s nervous or lying, which means you can pretty much hear it EVERY time Bell says anything.
Photo op or photo bomb?
Most experts would tell an extreme right wing incumbent in a very tight race to steer toward the middle.
Nope not Honey boo boo, Lynda drives wide right.
She must be in trouble if her only option is to play to her base.
But even Republicans find to hard to support a Republican who gets caught feathering her own nest with public money.
I think Bush is telling Raschein, “Can you believe this bitch is holding a sign that says -Let’s keep working- and she hasn’t worked a day in her life.” She’s lived off the dirty deals her and her husband have made and the backs of their constituents and employees.