You’ve probably seen the video of the woman who gave Governor Rick Scott a piece of her mind at a coffee shop last week; on WMNF’s MidPoint we talk with Cara Jennings about what she was talking about with Gov. Scott before the camera started recording and why she was upset.
Listen to the full show here:
Here’s the video that has been watched more than two million times from a coffee shop in Gainesville, Florida. Jennings, confronted Governor Scott a few days after he signed a bill making access to abortion more difficult and forbidding the state from reimbursing Planned Parenthood for services.
In the video, Governor Scott and his entourage walk out of the coffee shop without getting their order.
A couple of days later, Scott’s political action committee, Let’s Get to Work released this online ad.
On WMNF’s MidPoint, Jennings rebutted some of the claims from the ad, which says almost everybody has a great job and suggests that Jennings was sitting around coffee shop, demanding public assistance and cursing at customers who come in.
We have had Cara Jennings on WMNF a few times before. In 2009 when she was a Lake Worth City Commissioner she was arrested when protesting outside the Israeli embassy after an American peace activist, Tristan Anderson, was shot in the West Bank.
Around that same time she protested the construction of a planned new natural gas-fired power plant. In 2006 we noted that an “anarchist radical cheerleader had been elected to city commission and the year before that we talked with her about opposition to the Palm Beach County development by Scripps.
At the beginning of the show we played a listener comment about our last show; we talked about potential voting difficulties in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primaries, which were won by Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz.
7 Responses to “Cara Jennings confronted Rick Scott in spirit of challenging people with power”
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Abortion is murder. Is murder a choice? It was chickinsh!t for his supporters to respond as they did. Keep the high ground!
Abortion is constitutionally protected. Research how many young girls died because of unsafe illegal abortions. Making abortions illegal will not end abortions, just lead to more young women dying.
Abortion is not Constitutionally protected. It is a Supreme Court decision that can be overturned.
The Constitution was created to protect the rights we are endowed by our Creator with and likewise protect citizens from government. Government is, as you likely know, comprised of people, not angles nor saints.
Don’t play the game or do the time
Rick Scott’s dirty campaign managers have the gall to personally attack a citizen, Cara Jennings, who called Scott out about his damaging policies. Rick Scott is the worst governor Florida has had. Gives tax breaks to
the wealthy, mainly his favorite polluting corporations, big oil and
sugar. While he cuts funding for pre-natal health care, refuses Federal
Medicaid Funding which resulted in cutting off health care for my grand
children, cuts environmental regulations so big oil and sugar can
pollute while the public picks up the cleanup tab. Remember he stole
$400,000 from the state environmental fund to pay the fines and
legal fees assessed him for ignoring the state Sunshine Law for
refusing to release emails and records of his trips to the King Ranch in
Texas where dirty deals have been hatched for decades. Typical Rick Scott, picking on a simple citizen. Cara Jennings nailed him, too bad she didn’t shoot him in self defense.
After all Scott is a danger to society and Florida is his gun state.
Disturbing the peace, also known as breach of the peace, is a criminal offense that occurs when a person engages in some form of disorderly conduct, such as fighting or threatening to fight in public, causing excessively loud noise, by shouting, playing loud music, or even allowing a dog to bark for prolonged periods.
Really?? What’s it called when your elected public official very rarely (this is the only exception i know) comes out in public, unless it’s a “closely managed” appearance with citizen protesters confined in a chain-
link-fenced “zone”; uses his private jet instead of public transportation, so his schedule can remain under wraps and citizens cannot know in advance what he has planned for his official appearances; refuses to allow scientists in employ of the WMDs to freely discuss their publicly-funded research; misappropriates citizen mandated Amendment 1 spending; and, in general, and there are so many more instances i could mention but won’t in the pursuit of brevity, “disses” the voters of his state and confounds their every wish for improvement and preservation of this formerly beautiful and enjoyable piece of Paradise? My answer? I call it “Being RICO Scott”~~~~!