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Rick Scott: “When I was governor, you knew that where we needed to invest…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Senator Rick Scott Hosts Hurricane Preparedness Event at Ponte Vedra Beach

Published | Video Starts at 03:21

Chris is here. Chris Ware's here. What they're, what they're trying to do, which is. Let me talk about that for just a second. So When I was governor, you knew that where we needed to invest our dollars, more dollars, was in our technical schools and our state colleges. because that's, you knew that's where the jobs are. And it was so hard. It's easy to get money for the University of Florida, easy to get money for fsu, but it was a pain to get money out of the legislature. (03:21–03:31)

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Asserts the need for investment in technical schools and state colleges during his governorship.

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