{"id":3091,"date":"2013-02-07T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:17:36","slug":"scott-plans-100m-campaign-vs-crist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/scott-plans-100m-campaign-vs-crist\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott plans $100M campaign vs. Crist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/florida-governor-inflates-cost-of-medicaid-expansion-by-2600-to-avoid-implementing-obamacare\/rick_scott\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2934\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2934\" alt=\"Rick_Scott\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rick Scott is preparing to defend his Florida governorship with the most expensive reelection campaign in state history, drawing up plans for a battleship-sized political operation aimed at overcoming the Republican\u2019s deep personal unpopularity.<\/p>\n<p>The anticipated price tag, according to sources familiar with Scott\u2019s plans: $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is no stranger to heavy spending; the former hospital care executive put some $73 million of his own money into an insurgent 2010 primary campaign and a narrow general election win. His TV ads saturated the Florida airwaves for months.<\/p>\n<p>But Scott\u2019s 2014 campaign \u2014 possibly pitting him against party-switching former GOP Gov. Charlie Crist as the Democratic candidate \u2014 won\u2019t just be a jacked-up version of the 2010 version, knowledgeable Republicans said. In addition to darkening the sky with paid media, Scott\u2019s team is looking at the possibility of creating a state-specific data and analytics division, either within the campaign or at the Republican Party of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The idea would be to replicate President Barack Obama\u2019s success in targeting and turning out Sunshine State voters \u2014 though sources cautioned that no final decisions have been made about the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/embattled-scott-plots-100m-campaign-vs-crist-87236.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scott plans $100M campaign vs. Crist &#8211; Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Scott is preparing to defend his Florida governorship with the most expensive reelection campaign in state history, drawing up plans for a battleship-sized political operation aimed at overcoming the Republican\u2019s deep personal unpopularity. The anticipated price tag, according to sources familiar with Scott\u2019s plans: $100 million. Scott is no stranger to heavy spending; the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1608,22,7],"tags":[90,1642,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}