Gov. Scott spotlights job creators

Everyone knows Gov. Rick Scott has almost a one-track mind for his term — jobs. In fact, every time he delivers a speech, he makes reference to his magic number of 700,000 new jobs in seven years.

To demonstrate that he is counting his progress every day, Scott used a portion of his state of the state address to point to four recent successes in the job-growth journey. Two of them were Gulf Coast companies — Chromalloy in Tampa and Naples-based Arthrex.

Scott introduced to the Legislature Chromalloy President Armand Lauzon, who was seated in the governor's gallery seats in the House Chambers. Scott noted that Chromalloy will add 400 jobs at its new manufacturing plant in Tampa.