Dear Richard Hack, I am not surprised to read your disingenuous contrived article about the ” Federal Investigation” of Governor Rick Scott’s by the dubious Eric Holder Justice Department. Your yellow journalism is a pure partisan stunt by you and the ethically challenged Obama Administration, which poll after poll say the majority of Americans believe is no longer trustworthy on any issue. Major groups that were the backbone of the triumphant 2008 Obama coalition have turned against him on every issue of trust. A majority or strong plurality of Mellennials, Hispanics and Independents disapprove of the President and his corrupt use of IRS targeting, NSA spying, and misleading the public about Obamacare. Governor Rick Scott promised 700,000 new jobs in seven years. In less than fours years he has created 630,000 by recruiting companies to open up factories and offices in Florida. Despite your self-assured masquerade, Richard Hack, as a principled white man fighting racial oppression of minorities, we will not be bamboozled by unethical rhetoric. It is well-known that Silicon Valley sees Florida as the national epicenter for Hispanic-owned high-tech firms. Moreover, most of Governor Scott’s regional and county field directors in South Florida are Black or Brown Hispanic or Caribbean-American women. One can only assume you want your defrauded readership to believe they are racists, sexists, bigots, and homophobes. By the way, why is the Florida Agenda staff conspicuously all-white males, if your are so concerned about racism and sexism? Is that your type? Thousands of respectable Democrat, Independent, and Republican Gay voters deserve better. They know what you choose to abandon in your hit piece on Governor Scott — Character is King. Wise up, Richard Hack, and stop writing like a third class political hack. That is counterfeit equality and pride. Every Florida Agenda reader in pursuit of true equality and pride, and searching for the truth, has the right to demand that of you since they demand it of themselves. So far, you fail to deliver. Now that your readers have gotten to know you, it is time for them to get to know the 25-35% of their Republican-voting fellow Gays who walk among them. Reach out to us as we reach out to you. Don’t believe the toxic lies many love to hear.
Respectfully submitted,

Louie LaHue
Boynton Beach , Florida

Editor’s note: Governor Rick Scott states that he has created 580,000 in private sector jobs since taking office, not 630,000. His July 2010 campaign promise to create 700,000 jobs in seven years came just after non-partisan economists at the state legislature’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research projected that Florida’s long-term job growth for July 2010-June 2018 would be slightly over one million, regardless of government intervention.  To allow for this calculation, Scott promised to create 700,000 jobs in addition to those projected by the economists. While Gov. Scott has brought sizeable business growth to the state, his private sector job tally would need to total 850,000 at this point in his term to fulfill his actual campaign promise. Those facts aside, the front page article concerned U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s apprehension that Scott’s influence on voting procedures since his election has negatively impacted the ease of voting in Florida. If proven accurate, there is nothing disingenuous about the concern or the article. Agenda stands behind its facts as written.