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It’s a signature scandal! (Except when it’s not)
Posted Jun 1, 2011 by Tom Jackson
Updated Jun 1, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Listen, I wish Rick Scott hadn’t had security escort demonstrators away from his budget signing ceremony at The Villages the other day. Facing with good nature a little dissent is good for the soul, and for the image. The governor could stand to have some folks around him who understand that, and can persuade him to engage.
That said, it’s not like the Scott team’s decision to screen the audience and keep demonstrators at bay is without precedent, as we are reminded in this report about the arrangements surrounding President Obama’s signing of the (cough-cough) stimulus package in February 2009. From ABC 7 News in Denver, we read this:
Obama’s signing ceremony is by invitation only. The museum closes to the public today for the occasion.
That wasn’t the last time the President shut the door on fans of the opposing team. He also held invitation-only signing ceremonies in public venues here and here.
I mean, just so the record is clear, and we can better understand when the act of orchestrating a signing ceremony for political purposes is a scandal ... and when it isn’t. Evidence indicates it all pretty much depends on whether there’s an R or a D between the parentheses following the name of the signer.
Not that you would know that from the entirely balanced (cough-cough) coverage of Scott’s similarly boosterized little autograph session.
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