Rick Scott Looks for Meeting With Obama on Flood Rates

Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, asking for a meeting to discuss unfair insurance rate hikes placed on Florida families resulting from the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act. Scott has been a leading critic of Obama since he emerged on the political stage in 2009 to oppose the presidents federal health-care law. Scotts letters is as follows:

Last week, I wrote to inform you of the devastating consequences of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which you signed into law on July 6, 2012. I have yet to receive your response.

You already used your executive authority to delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and undo health insurance laws that were costing Floridians the health care plans they liked and wanted to keep. Why is keeping Floridians in their homes less important?

Floridians are suffering. I would like to meet with you as soon as possible to discuss how we can resolve this unfair insurance rate hike on Florida families.

We need you to take immediate action to undo the harmful effects of this law before it cripples Floridas real-estate market and threatens our states economic momentum. I am making myself available to meet with you on this critical issue at your earliest convenience. Our state cannot wait. I look forward to sitting down with you soon to fix this problem.