Its sad. Rick Scott actually does have a good economic performance record and of course he vetoed the proposal from the legislature to double my tuition costs and yet he's losing to an opportunistic slimeball like Charlie Crist. He really needs new PR people or something.
Rick Scott vetoed the tuition bill while cutting $300 million from the state universities, you have to balance it out somewhere. I supported then ablility for UF and FSU to raise tuition more than 15% a year, we need to fund our universities and if the state is unwilling to do so then higher tuition prices are needed.
And I'm a UF student.
Oh, I agree that tuition needs to rise. Florida's colleges are some of the cheapest in the nation, and even with tuition rises that's still the case. But rising the costs much higher exclusively for FSU and UF makes it much harder for poorer people to afford sending their kids to the best schools, especially with bright futures cuts. It's not an ideal situation, but austerity never is. And the main alternative to cutting higher education was cutting healthcare. In the end I think the legislature was right to allow tuition raises and the governor right to veto the UF/FSU bigger tuition increases. I'm an FSU student, by the way.
Oh, and while we're on the subject, what was up with this story?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/04/22/university-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science-department-increases-athletic-budgets-hmm/
