ArcPlot "TEXTSCALE" functionality

Hello,

For those of you who remember ArcPlot,, does anyone know how to mimic the functionality of the command TEXTSCALE using python?

I have code that makes a selection on an annotation FC in a GDB. Now I want to temporarily re-scale the selected annotation features for printing/exporting purposes. If this can't be done temporarily, how would I export these selected anno features to a new Feature Class or Feature Layer? MakeFeatureLayer does not support annotation, nor does CreateFeatureClass.

Many Thanks, Adam