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Bill Nelson’s Ending (FL Rat Loser Alert)
Miami Herald ^ | 11/17/2018 | Steve Bousquet and Steve Contorno

Posted on 11/17/2018 7:46:14 PM PST by goldstategop

Florida’s senior senator, often described as one of the luckiest politicians alive, won three terms as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate seemingly without breaking a sweat, and for good reason: He faced one weak opponent after another.

After 46 years in public office, he finally met his match in Gov. Rick Scott, whose vast personal fortune, trademark aggressiveness and single-minded discipline has proven to be just enough to produce an excruciatingly narrow victory — Scott’s third, close statewide win in eight years.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: billnelson; florida; midterms; ratloser
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FL Rat loser.

Survived only because he had weak opponents - until Rick Scott beat him.

Well uh - bye!

1 posted on 11/17/2018 7:46:14 PM PST by goldstategop
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Concede now, Stapleface.....


2 posted on 11/17/2018 7:50:22 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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First time since Reconstruction FL will have two GOP Senators.

Bucking a nationwide trend, FL turned more Red instead.


3 posted on 11/17/2018 7:51:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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I didn’t know Scott was rich
How did he make his money?


4 posted on 11/17/2018 7:53:51 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: goldstategop

This ass clown sucked on the public teet for decades.
One of my federal gub mint senators and i have NO idea that this teet sucker Ever did a thing other than hitch a ride on a shuttle,
And that was for zero reasons.
Good bye good getout.
Worthless drift wood.


5 posted on 11/17/2018 7:55:11 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)
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To: gcparent

He was a businessman like Trump before he entered politics.

Scott is finishing two terms as Governor. Will move to the US Senate in January.


6 posted on 11/17/2018 7:55:45 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

See ya, Skeletor!


7 posted on 11/17/2018 7:56:58 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Joe Boucher

He was the last old school Southern Democrat. They’re all gone now.


8 posted on 11/17/2018 7:57:17 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Stapleface gone? How sweet it is! --Jackie Gleason.
9 posted on 11/17/2018 7:57:46 PM PST by Fungi
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A 14k vote margin is too big to overcome - even with the recount and Rat cheating.


10 posted on 11/17/2018 7:59:33 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

They did it in the ag commissioners race.


11 posted on 11/17/2018 8:01:36 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cableguymn

That will need to be looked at..


12 posted on 11/17/2018 8:02:35 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: gcparent

I didn’t either!
Looks like health care and venture capital.
$250 mil or so.


13 posted on 11/17/2018 8:04:10 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

Scott’s fortune made all the difference and Trump’s campaigning for him and DeSantis helped clinch the deal.


14 posted on 11/17/2018 8:06:53 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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And what has he done in 40 years other than enriching himself?get a post office named after some Elmer Fudd?
I have no idea he’s done anything.
Worthless leach, a sucker fish.


15 posted on 11/17/2018 8:10:53 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)
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To: Joe Boucher

Was elected in 1972. I was ten years old then. Serving almost half a century. Some record.


16 posted on 11/17/2018 8:13:03 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Maybe he can get a job here:

Can he fix computers?

17 posted on 11/17/2018 8:14:48 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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Hey, at least he got a shuttle flight out of the deal.


18 posted on 11/17/2018 8:20:52 PM PST by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: Joe Boucher

And what has he done in 40 years other than enriching himself?get a post office named after some Elmer Fudd?
I have no idea he’s done anything.
Worthless leach, a sucker fish.
************
He leveraged his political clout into a ride on the Space Shuttle. He should from this day forth be known as Rocket Man.


19 posted on 11/17/2018 8:23:04 PM PST by Yulee
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To: gcparent
In PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
20 posted on 11/17/2018 8:30:43 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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