Since jumping into Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary in April, millionaire hospital executive Rick Scott has spent a fortune beating the heck out of the Republican establishment’s choice, state Attorney General Bill McCollum. McCollum is now nearly out of money, and hoping Florida’s public financing laws will bail him out. Though the race is not over yet, Scott is looking more and more like a frontrunner — a development that could leave Republicans with an eccentric, disgraced CEO to carry their flag into the open race for governor in the fall.
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