“Why do things like this always have to happen to us in Florida?”
“What kinds of things, mom?” I asked my more than 102-year-old mother who was calling, all upset, from Forest Trace, the retirement community in which she lives in Lauderhill.
“First there was how some of the old people here didn’t know how to punch their ballots and wound up electing George Bush. And we know what he did to us. Now we have a crook, and worse, running for governor. Rick Scott, the Republican, whose company had to pay nearly two billion dollars in fines for committing Medicare fraud. Stealing money from us old people.”