Rick Scott apparently not a fan of fans
Governor Rick Scott seems to believe that government is a board room. He seems to believe that he has absolute power in all venues. Then maybe Rick Scott is not a fan of fans.
Rick Scott refused to go on stage because for the debate with Charlie Crist because there was a fan under Charlie Crist’s podium. Rick Scott claimed that the rules of the debate forbade it.
CNN reported it as follows.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott refused to go onstage for the first seven minutes of a debate Thursday night, because his opponent had a fan.
No, not a rowdy supporter in the audience. An actual electric fan.
Scott’s Democratic challenger, former Gov. Charlie Crist, had set up a small fan underneath his podium, apparently trying to keep himself from sweating under the Broward College stage’s lights. Scott saw the fan, a prop that often accompanies Crist at public appearances, as a violation of the debate’s rules and said he wouldn’t participate.
The moderators tried to explain the disagreement while Republicans in the audience chided Crist for breaking rules — at least as Scott saw them — against props on stage.
“We have an extremely peculiar situation right now,” moderator Elliott Rodriguez, a local news anchor, said as the broadcast started.
“Are we really going to debate a fan?” Crist said while standing alone on stage.
Several minutes later, Scott relented and joined the debate.