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Political Factoid
The 2011 inauguration of the Republican
governor of Florida, Rick Scott,
was heralded as a week long "coronation"
for the wealthy former health-care executive.*
- Flying around the state on a
seven-city "appreciation" tour
- A parade featuring 26 marching bands
- Black-tie dinner with oysters Rockefeller
and fried calamari
- An ethnic party with giant platters of
roasted pig, brown rice and boiled yucca.
- A two-hour prayer breakfast with no
fewer than 10 speakers *
- Numerous concerts, parades, balls, etc.
- "Good times are here again"
* cf.
278,
600
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