Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott took aim at President Barack Obama on Monday for calling for $50 billion in new federal spending on infrastructure to put more Americans back to work -- and linked his Democratic rival, state CFO Alex Sink, to the increasingly unpopular administration.

“The Obama liberals have written another bad prescription for our failing economy, more stimulus money and more debt,” said Scott. “Floridians know that billions in government handouts don’t create jobs – a concept that Alex Sink and President Obama do not seem to grasp. On the other hand, I have a specific and detailed plan that reduces regulations and taxes to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in Florida.”