Gov of FL owned the company they will be purchasing drug testing kits from?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

I guess that explains this little jewel:

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is defending recent legislation that requires adults in the state applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screenings, saying the law provides "personal accountability."

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"What (Scott) is doing is giving ugly legitimacy to an unfortunate stereotype that has been in this country for a couple of decades – that all welfare recipients are a bunch of drug abusers," said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/florida-government-defends-requiring-drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients/

Speaking of "personal accountability", where's HIS? Isn't it a conflict of interest if the Governor owned the company the state is purchasing the kits from?

This is old news but I hadn't seen the bit about Scott having owned the company the state will be getting the drug-testing kits from. How the hell is this legal?

[larwdem]

1. I think that law will be defeated in court

and the gov. needs to be investigated

[ChiciB1]

3. I Think He Has Been Investigated BEFORE. Nothing Stuck & He Got Elected Anyway!

If someone knows otherwise please let me know.

[larwdem]

5. I don't know

just saying!:hi:

[ChiciB1]

2. Not That This Surprises Me... I Live In Florida & Have Not Only Heard Many

stories about him, but there are also KNOWN facts on record about him. I really hate to believe that voter fraud is so blatant here, or do I want to think that elections are rigged, but I simply don't know how to explain how he got elected.

My inclination is that Jebby had a hand in it, yet I still don't WANT this to be true. Not because it bothers me that they could stoop so low, it's just that it makes me question why I should vote. This is not a state like WI. This is not a state where much action will be taken. This is not a state that a person feels like there is much one can do to fight back if you're on the other side. But if I recall correctly, I don't know that Scott was EVER ahead in the polls leading up to the election. Then again Sink wasn't exactly a pristine candidate for even moderates.

This revelation is just more in a pile of crap that gets dumped on us down here and around the country too. I look at this state and then I see what I'm seeing nationally and I wonder if I still live in a Democracy. It does seem that all of it's "bought & sold" and that IS NOT what I want to believe.

Someone please prove me wrong because it really is awful feeling like I do. I want to BELIEVE we are better than this as Ed Schultz keeps saying, but it gets harder and harder every single day. It's so DAMN depressing, and I know I myself have given up even trying to help make a change. And I HAVE been vocal and involved for many years. I can't seem to find it in me to fight back anymore because I no longer know how.

I feel the walls closing in, but have nowhere to run. I want to believe that what I think about how corrupt things have become are only my imagination. I just don't know how to believe that good will overcome evil and things WILL get better. I know I'm not in that place and haven't been for a very long time.

[lpbk2713]

4. Just like Cheney.

Cheney made a fortune with his bogus emergency no-bid contracts to Halliburton during the bogus war and
the bogus search for non-existent WMD's. Scott is doing the same thing on a slightly smaller scale.