Rick Scott, who openly helped fund the anti-ObamaCare campaign last year, is running for the Republican nomination for governor in Florida. He also has a somewhat controversial past with the massive Columbia HCA hospital group — a past for which Scott has taken responsibility and apologized.

Well, a costly 60-second ad drawing attention to Scott’s past has suddenly appeared, funded by a group called “League of Florida Voters”. Who’s behind the group? Apparently nobody knows.

A new stealthy group called the League of Florida Voters (not to be confused with its parent, the League of American Voters) has bought a 60-second spot on Fox that is supposedly airing nationally because there are no TV slots left on Florida-only Fox channels. The group’s state report says only that it got $425,000 from the national arm, which as a 501(c)4, will not have to ever disclose who gave the money.

Common wisdom would tell us that a right-leaning opponent of Scott is behind the campaign. After all, the general election has yet to begin and Democrats have little reason to waste money attacking a candidate who may not even win his own party’s nomination.

Indeed, that appears to be the case. If the League of American Voters is truly the parent group of the organization running the ad, it’s a right-leaning group. In fact, it’s the group for which Dick Morris helped raise funds during the health care debate of 2009-2010.

So it would appear that we have the subsidiary of an anti-ObamaCare group running ads against a gubernatorial candidate who himself spent a fortune fighting ObamaCare.