Richard Corcoran thinks he’s a monarch not the Speaker of the Florida House. He feels entitled to negotiate budgets and train bills in secrecy.
He thinks nothing of calling teachers “downright evil.” He and his cronies, the Koch Bros., lambaste “corporate welfare” when it comes to Enterprise Florida but plow $200M into the blatant corporate Charter welfare “Schools of Hope” scheme in his deeply flawed HB 7069.
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Corcoran and his “fix the deal” mentality drove him to spend nearly half of a Florida teacher’s annual salary – $20K – to buy the title of “Biggest Winner” of the 2017 session in a one time blog post.
Like any absolute monarch, Richard Corcoran has no trouble justifying buying a title. He also has no trouble ignoring the voices of Floridians across the state who are writing thousands of letters and making even more calls to Ask Governor Scott to veto HB 7069
Speaker Corcoran is deliberately waiting to give HB 7069 to Governor Scott until the end of the K12 public school year. He is desperate for parents to get caught up in summer and stop speaking out.
He and Americans for Prosperity and its subsidiary, Libre are spending big money on misleading social media, phone banks & a highly inaccurate YouTube video – all to push passage of the indefensible HB 7069. They’re even coercing both charter school and district parents to support HB 7069 and charter schools are bribing kids to write letters for extra grade points.
In the “you can’t make this up category,” Adam Smith reports in the Tampa Bay Times:
In the final days of the 2017 legislative session, as Tallahassee obsessed over whether a budget deal might happen or implode like Frank Artiles’ political career, Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran decided he could use some friendly P.R. Corcoran’s political committee, Florida Roundtable, paid $20,000 to Extensive Enterprises, the St. Petersburg-based media firm that works for several big lobbying shops and runs the FloridaPolitics web site.
“When allocations come down, it has to be recognized – again – the masterful play by @RichardCorcoran,” the company’s president, Peter Schorsch, gushed on Twitter the same day Corcoran made the payment.
After the session finally ended, Schorsch crowned Corcoran the biggest winner: “He’s the master of the House. No, make that the Capitol….Light up another Montecristo: This ride is just gettin’ started.”
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