If you've been following the Fangate story, you'll recognize this as significant:
So the Scott ploy included the collusion of the debate sponsors themselves. This is downright Nixonian.
And it explains this press release issued by the debate sponsors this morning.
5:29 PM PT: So the gameplan was to have the debate cancelled: "Scott's advisers urged Wendy Walker of Leadership Florida and Dean Ridings of the Florida Press Association to end the debate before it started." Link
Of course the ironic thing is CNN did this for Scott for free, they banned fans for next week's debate. What hacks.