{"id":9107,"date":"2011-08-15T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9107"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:13:24","slug":"protesters-greet-rick-scott-during-walmart-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9107","title":{"rendered":"Protesters Greet Rick Scott During Walmart Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ORLANDO, FL<\/strong> &#8212; Florida <strong>Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s<\/strong> visit to an Orlando-area Walmart to promote the state&#8217;s back-to-school tax holiday today was met with a handful of hecklers and protesters, who shouted questions about his attention to education and job creation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s<\/strong> promotion of the popular money-saving event included a stop at the retail chain to buy school supplies and donate them to three area schools.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, protesters wearing PinkSlipRick.com T-shirts walked near the governor as he browsed the aisles purchasing items. The group was created by Florida Watch, a progressive advocacy organization that has criticized the governor.<\/p>\n<p>One member of the group flashed a leaflet in front of <strong>Scott<\/strong> as he walked by. They also handed out pink sheets of paper, representing termination slips, to several other spectators.<\/p>\n<p>The leaflet claimed that more than 300,000 jobs had been lost under Scott and asked voters to &#8220;Give Rick his pink slip.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, FL &#8212; Florida Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s visit to an Orlando-area Walmart to promote the state&#8217;s back-to-school tax holiday today was met with a handful of hecklers and protesters, who shouted questions about his attention to education and job creation. Scott&#8217;s promotion of the popular money-saving event included a stop at the retail chain to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}