Fast report here. A Governor Rick Scott powerpoint presentation is making the rounds, that was used by the Scott Transition Team on Regulatory Reform, dated December 20th. It is a fascinating glimpse into the condensation of GOP strategy for Florida and perhaps the nation, guided as we were given to learn, by the foremost conservative foundations who were invited, by Governor Scott, to fill up his clean slate.
The Rick Scott Transition Team powerpoint is George Orwell 2.0 You can almost imagine Governor Scott having his eureka moment, we have to "restructure the company!" Honestly, it's in the powerpoint slide.
Here are some highlights: "meaningful change will require flawless management, sequencing and focus on: purpose, strategy, objectives, leadership, structure and execution (in that order)"
The point about "flawless management" is emphasized a few times and notable. I expect that "flawless management" will be the first victim of the Rick Scott administration, not because Governor Scott doesn't mean well. If there is one thing you can take to the bank, it is that government doesn't do anything flawlessly. In fact, Scott had such a hard time finding candidates for top positions in his administration that he asked the previous administrators, whose resignations he had already accepted, to stay on. Wonder why, if "flawless management" was in the job description.
The conservative premise of the powerpoint presentation: "While the cornerstones of our regulatory framework swelled and entrenched, Florida changed. Now, many policies, agencies and jurisdictions overlap or are redundant. It has even contributed to many of the challenges that we face today." Ah: so it wasn't insiders, lobbyists, and thieves at the public till who are responsible for the problems, it is government itself. Government is the problem. Sound familiar?
This is exactly the same re-tread tires that the Jeb Bush administration ran on, all the while fostering the set of conditions that the Scott administration expects to address: "inconsistent regulatory process, over built real estate, overburdened debt, behind the water supply curve, urban sprawl, etc. etc." Doesn't Government Scott realize this was EXACTLY the outcome that the prior GOP administrations and their supporters, sought?
Now, instead of "balancing the environment and the economy"-- the earlier canard-- it is "from growth management to growth leadership". Excuse me for throwing up a little in my mouth.
Apparently, Governor Scott is focused on "what can have the greatest impact, the fastest." In the GOP gunner's eye: regulatory barriers to job growth. Name one job that has been inhibited because of regulatory barriers. But here are the real objects of desire, as we have written about on Eyeonmiami for years: the Department of Community Affairs and Environmental Protection. After the Governor's promised 60 day "road show" (sound familiar, Growth Management Review is a perennial favorite), now there will be a Plan of Action: "launch regulatory framework work process" that targets the water management districts and DEP.
It's a mish-mash of historic proportions: "Florida's greatest challenge right now is not regulatory red tape...", one slide says, and then a few slides down, "Redesign and reshape Florida's regulatory policy, leadership, culture and structure to align with, and drive towards, Florida's optimal strategic position." Then, "Report DOT, DEP and DCA to common leader with one common mission" and "Combine DOT, DEP and DCA into one organization".
We all know how this is going to turn out, don't we?
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Associated Industries of Florida loves the Rick Scott choice for DEP chief?
See my post: Who is this ass Barney Bishop? to see what that ringing endorsement holds.
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-is-this-ass-barney-bishop-by.html
It's all true: Barney Bishop is Florida's Jack-Ass-In-Chief.
inauguration is being broadcast on WLRN ..not 5 min into speech, scott being heckled by protesters! thank you anonymous protester!
Not only was he heckled, AND HE WAS, the man can hardly speak. What was that? Pure verbal incompetence or is he on medication? He had a bad case of the slurred speech!
Poor thing. He is in for a crude awakening. . .
No... I think we are in for a sad, sad ride.
Anyone who has worked in government, knows that customer service/attentiveness to detail gets worse the larger the agency...there are more places for inefficiencies to appear.
I personally would rather deal with 10 agencies which has 25 employees and all of them in the same building than one agency that has 250 scattered all over the state. None of these mega agencies will have staff who know what their job description allows them to do since the rules will change overnight for them...
If you remember Alvarez came in with his "outsiders" and wiped out all the institutional memory and NOTHING in the way of initiatives were accomplished... they all fell on their royal tushes.
The one thing that Alvarez's staff learned to do well was veto UDB moves. Thank you for that! Unfortunately, that is why all these nitwits are funding the recall--the construction folks are still pissed.
On a more local note, the Herald is reporting that Seijas has sued to stop the recall election.
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