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"MIAMI A few days after Gov. Rick Scott of Florida endorsed a Medicaid expansion, a U-turn so sharply executed that it flabbergasted his supporters, the head of a local Tea Party group typed up a breakup note. Im trying to determine how the Medicaid expansion is going to pay for the surgery to remove the knife planted in my back, Henry Kelley, the Tea Party leader and an early supporter of Mr. Scott, wrote on his blog.
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Mr. Scott, 60, a former health care executive who won the governorship by calling for deep budget cuts and fiercely criticizing President Obamas health care bill, has, in his third year in office, marched toward the political center, a necessity in this diverse swing state.
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Tea Party members, on the other hand, can no longer get the governors office on the phone. Nobody in his leadership circle is even contacting us, said Mr. Kelley, the head of the Fort Walton Beach Tea Party. We are not being asked our opinion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/us/gov-rick-scott-of-florida-perplexes-with-shift-to-the-center.html?hp&_r=0
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