Gov.-elect Rick Scott spent Sunday night at the Governor’s Mansion, up early enough to walk his dog Reagan, a yellow labrador, around the grounds. Reagan was obtained from a shelter during the campaign.

Reagan didn’t make a public appearance Monday morning. But Scott was seen leaving the mansion at 8:24 a.m., shaking hands with a couple of Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents before boarding his motorcade out of Tennessee Street to Florida State University’s Alumni Hall for a “Salute to Women in Leadership” breakfast, which drew about 300 invitees.

Morning temperatures in Tallahassee hovered around 35 F. That gave the crowd entering the FSU event something to talk about.

“It’s not as cold as it was for Jeb Bush’s first inaugural,” horse-track lobbyist Wilbur Brewton recalled. “My feet were frozen at that.”

Former Gov. Bob Martinez said his 1987 inaugural still was chillier. But he was ready to offer some advice for the new guy.

“They’ve put together a good team,” Martinez said of Scott and Lt. Gov.-elect Jennifer Carroll. “It’s not complete. But they should be able to work with the Legislature.”

Martinez also noted the $3.5 billion budget shortfall. “Money is always a huge challenge,” he said.

Among those spotted coming in for the nosh: former Florida Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter, ex-Florida Republican Party Chair Carole Jean Jordan, GOP fund-raiser and BellSouth lobbyist Mike Hightower, state GOP Vice Chair Deborah Coxe-Roush, Scott lawyer and lobbyist John French (on crutches, nursing a torn quadricep), House Budget Chair Rep. Denise Grimsley, R-Lake Placid, and former Florida Secretary of State Sandra Mortham.

Incoming Cabinet members, Attorney General-elect Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner-elect Adam Putnam were also there. Bondi was given a video introduction and handed the microphone for the women’s event.

She recalled campaigning and having teenaged girls surrounding her.

“Young girls would come up to me, 14, 15 and 16, and say ‘I want to go to law school because of you. I want to be attorney general because of you,’” Bondi said, although she added, “it’s not all about me.”

“I tell you there is no glass ceiling,” she said, “because of people who have come before.”

The breakfast’s featured speaker: Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. She derided Washington as home to the “Hatfields and McCoys” because of its partisan divide.

“You can either mimic Washington with this ridiculous gridlock we’ve had, or you can do better,” Van Susteren told the crowd. Florida’s 12 percent unemployment rate -- “that’s bad. That’s horrible.”  But, she said, if bipartisan work can get the jobless rate down a couple of points -- to say, 10 percent -- that’s success.

“People aren’t looking for miracles, they’re looking for progress,” she said. “If you can bring it down, you can own that one.”