Sen. Rick Scott: Florida is the Best State in the Nation; It’s No Surprise the President is Moving Here

November 7, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote a letter to the editor of the Orlando Sentinel in response to a recent guest column mocking the President’s decision to move to Florida.

In the letter, Senator Rick Scott wrote, “I find it interesting that a Florida paper would choose to publish a guest columnist mocking his own state just to make a political point…

The truth is, Florida is the best state in the nation — to live, to work, and to raise a family. It’s ridiculous that someone would try to diminish the fact that our state has low taxes, as if that wouldn’t be motivation for a family to move here. Anyone who would argue otherwise has clearly never had to struggle to support a family.

I’m glad the president is choosing to make Florida home, just like I’m glad every time a family or business chooses Florida. So let’s stop making everything about politics and just take a minute to appreciate what a great state Florida truly is…”

Read the full letter in the Orlando Sentinel HERE.

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