High honor given to local Palm Beach County Haitian minister...

John Kennedy from the Post On Politics blog has this story about a high honor given to local Palm Beach County Haitian minister:

A Haitian minister from West Palm Beach will deliver the benediction at the opening event of Gov. Rick Scott’s inaugural ceremonies, county Republican leaders said.

Rev. Mathieu Jean-Baptiste, senior pastor of United Haitian Baptist Church on Parker Avenue, is scheduled to help preside over the Jan. 6 prayer breakfast at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, which precedes the governor’s noontime swearing-in.

Scott and Jean-Baptiste bonded earlier this year when the governor attended a pastors’ meeting in West Palm Beach and later a Haitian-American religious gathering in Greenacres, according to the county GOP.