"Look at the
three camera hounds Trump Scott and no show Rubio!"
A lower then life,
died in the woods, scavenger, politician, looking for whatever he can scrape
off the top from our donations, a run for senate or all of the above?
June 18, 2016 12:04
AM
Gov. Rick Scott hugs
Maria Delos Angeles, during a wake for her son, Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera,
Thursday, June 16, 2016, at San Juan Funeraria in Kissimmee. Red Huber AP
By Mary Ellen Klas
Herald/Times
Tallahassee Bureau
ORLANDO
The mass shooting
that pierced Orlando’s summer calm and stunned the nation also became a
high-profile, and risky, platform for the state’s ambitious politicians.
For days, Gov. Rick
Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi joined Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer as regular
fixtures before the banks of television cameras in the media village that
emerged in the police periphery outside of the Orlando nightclub.
U.S. Sen. Marco
Rubio used
the event to announce he had “been deeply impacted by” the mass casualties
from an act of home-grown terrorism and was therefore reconsidering his
decision not to run for re-election. Democratic state legislators called for a
special session on gun reform. And Donald Trump sent a Tweet announcing the
massacre was proof he was “right on radical Islamic terrorism.”
But elected
officials also used the event to show empathy and command the resources of
their offices to help in the recovery and, when it came to meeting mourning
families and traumatized responders, most officials kept it private.
President Barack
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden flew
in Thursday to spend more than two hours talking with the families of
victims, but they banned reporters and photographers from recording their
visits.