Rick Scott ran for governor as a nonpolitician and self-styled political outsider. He threatened to make the Tallahassee establishment pols quake in their boots and weep in their drinks. There would be a new sheriff in town.

I recently met Florida death penalty exonerees 23 and 24. They are, respectively, Herman Lindsey of Pompano Beach and Seth Penalver of Fort Lauderdale. They’re not choir boys, but they’re not murderers, either. And they were on the list to be killed by the state.

Yes, OK, alright already, we get it. The SunLife stadium deal is not the Marlins Stadium deal. Almost nothing alike.

Time is running out for the Dolphins. Seven weeks from today, NFL owners will select the sites for Super Bowls 50 and 51— or L and LI as the NFL pretentiously likes to label them — and the Dolphins may not be in the running for either game. Not without passage of a special carve-out bill in Tallahassee, raising the hotel bed tax in mainland Miami-Dade, approval of the deal by county voters and an iron-clad guarantee that Sun Life will be modernized. Whew!