Scott Becomes Florida Governor Vowing to Create Jobs
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Rick Scott, a former health-care executive who spent a record $78 million running for Florida governor, was sworn in with promises to attack the “axis of unemployment” in a state with the fourth-highest U.S. jobless rate.
The Republican political novice vowed to make Florida the “most favorable business climate in the world” by addressing what he said were three impediments to job creation: taxation, regulation and litigation.