Rick Scott wins the Republican nomination for Florida governor

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In an upset, won the former health care executive, Rick Scott, the Florida Republican primary election for governor tonight against the Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the Associated Press reported. Scott, who has never held elected office, just announced his candidacy in late April and spent almost $ 40,000,000 of $ 218,000,000, he has transferred assets. McCollum was a former congressman from Orlando 1981-2001; he won the race for Attorney General in 2006. He must convince the vast majority of state Republicans who supported McCollum and support him.


Scott has major customers in its home of Southwest Florida, in Duval County, home to the Republican Party of Florida Chairman John Thrasher, who said Scott has a "bias" against him and was secretly helped McCollum said the governor's office. All the rooms are not in. But at this price, the McCollum hopes fading. Some of the injustices he had to defend the deal with this crazy spending habits shows the Florida GOP and the recent arrest of former state party chairman Jim Greer accused of fraud, felony grand theft and money laundering.

But Scott wants to build itself into a viable nominee a majority of Floridian, not just conservative Republicans. In one of the closest races of the night, pushed the political novice Rick Scott, a former veteran Bill McCollum to win Florida's Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday. This expectation was challenged, but when Scott made a late jump into the mix with the intention to spend large sums of his personal fortune on his election persecution.