Gordon Gekko Would Be Proud

To paraphrase Michael Douglas' flawed character Gordon Gekko in 1985's Wall Street -Greed is Good...For Your Poll Numbers.  Let's face it, trading on your family name (Jeb Bush) or generating free publicity walking across Florida (Lawton Chiles) to win races is out in the Sunshine State - replaced by parachuting in with trunks of cash.  Don't believe me - just look at the poll numbers.  Political unknown Rick Scott is 13 points up on the sitting Florida Attorney General in the race for the Republican nod for governor.  In the Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate, another political unknown Jeff Greene is neck and neck with a longtime South Florida congressman.  This swing in the polls could be due, in part, to the fact that their two opponents - Bill McCollum and Kendrick Meek - are both about as exciting as New Coke.  Still, it took gobs of money from both candidate's check books to get this point. So why the Gekko connection?  Well, Scott is currently spending millions of dollars on political TV ad and mail that are financed, in great part, by money he made running a a company that admitted stealing nearly $2 billion dollars in medicare and medicaid money from the federal government.  Across the aisle, Democrat Jeff Greene is spending millions of dollar... Read More