republican rick scott leapt in the lead in the florida governor race. >> i think our message got out. >> a multi-millionaire who ran a major national ad blitz against obama-care last year. self-described fiscally conservative outsider, he joined the race in april, and $15 million and tv ads later surged ahead of the former uncontested front-runner bill mccollum, the former attorney general. admits that scott's surge caught him off-guard and accused him of trying to buy the governor seat with ill-gotten gains. >> he has no record except for a record of ripping off the taxpayers of america for the largest medicare fraud in history and pocketing about $300 million for himself and running ads to become the governor of florida. that is his record. >> scott made his fortune as ceo of h.g.a. columbia, the largest hospital corporation but was forced out in record-setting medicare/medicaid fraud case