Group Responds To Woman Who Heckled Gov. Scott
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MIAMI(CBSMiami) -- A group supported by Florida Governor Rick Scott is responding to a woman seen on a viral video going on a rant against him at Gainesville coffee shop.
On Friday, the group "Let's Get To Work, supported by Gov. Scott, released a video talking about the incident, referring to her as the "terribly rude woman" who they say "clearly has a problem."
The governor had walked into a Starbucks in the area. That's when Cara Jennings began yelling - prompting the governor to eventually walk out empty-handed.
The video released by the group identifies Jennings as a former government official who they say "refused to recite The Pledge of Allegiance" and they say "calls herself an anarchist."
Jennings, in the video posted earlier in the week on YouTube, tells the governor, "You cut Medicaid, I couldn't get Obamacare....You're an (expletive). You don't care about working people, you should be ashamed to show your face around here."
While Scott didn't actually cut Medicaid, he did refuse to expand it. If it had been expanded, hundreds of thousands of low-income workers in the state would receive health insurance.
In the video, the group broke down a comment Jennings' made about jobs - after the governor said since he's been governor one million jobs have been created.
"A million jobs, great, who here has a great job or looking forward to finishing school because you have a great job coming up," Jennings asked aloud.
The group's video responded by looking at the people in the area around the Gainesville Starbucks who have a job.
"Since Rick Scott became governor, 9,300 new jobs have been added all in this area. In fact, unemployment here was cut in half," the video states.
The video concludes by answering her question saying "almost everybody [has a job]. Except those who are sitting around coffee shops demanding public assistance, surfing the internet and cursing at customers who come in."
Critics of Scott have pointed out that many of the jobs created, like in the service industry, are not high paying.
Reached by phone earlier this week, Jennings said she was upset that Scott recently signed legislation de-funding Planned Parenthood and limiting reproductive healthcare for women.
"He feels comfortable to sit in the Capitol and when you try to talk about decisions affecting women's healthcare, he walks out of the room," she said.
Scott, who was in South Florida to sign a bill supporting Israel earlier this week, made no apologies for walking out.
He said he signed the bill because he is pro-life, but added that the state budget has $5 million to cover healthcare prevention for women.