To have Governor Scott, Senate President Negron, and Speaker Corcoran tell their version of this story, however, comes across as
boastful, always touting «record levels of funding,» despite the fact that superintendents across the Sunshine State
point out, most famously by Superintendent Runcie, that Florida ranks 44th in per - pupil funding.
In many ways he fits into a distinct artistic «type»: a solitary maverick with a love - hate relationship to the Academy; alternately self - deprecating and outrageously
boastful; eccentric to the
point of mental instability; a quasi-mystic; a self - proclaimed polymath and prolific dabbler in other fields alongside his painting; a shameless self - publicist, self - publisher, self - mythologiser and purveyor of home - spun theory and philosophy.