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Rick Scott Cleans Florida’s Voter Rolls (again)

It's Not About Voter Fraud -- It's About Voter Suppression... After a... more

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Florida Passes ‘Kill the Negro’ Law

Republican Governor Rick Scott today signed legislation that would make it legal to... more

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Update: Rick Scott's Drug Testing Poor People Law

Rick Scott is an abomination. How he EVER got ANYONE to vote for him is beyond reason.... more

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Sun shines as Florida jobless rate drops again

Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity reports today that the state... more

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MLK Dreams & Activism Awake The State of FL

Gripping compilation video of Florida statewide political action on January 10th,... more

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Rick Scott's State Of Denial Speech Spurs Brave FL Cop Into Action (New Video)

Amidst wreckage of Gov. Rick Scott's dark and stormy reign over Florida, a ray of... more

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WATCH: Rick Scott Is Asked to Pee in a Cup (VIDEO)

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The Real Evil: GOP Voter Suppression - A State Guide

There are at least 19 laws that have already been passed throughout the United States... more

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Here’s what Florida professors earn; Scott releases salaries

Orlando Sentinel – Gov. Rick Scott has posted the salaries of employees at all... more

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Florida has turned down $106million in federal health care funds

The Associated Press is reporting that Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP-led Legislature have “rejected or declined to pursue more than $106 million in federal grant money and returned another $4.5 million” for health care initiatives in the state.

According to the AP:

Scott ordered state agencies to reject any money tied to President Barack Obama’s health care plan, which Florida is challenging in court, but Scott kept more than $13 million for a four-year abstinence education grant and for another program coordinating background checks for long-term care workers.

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Lawmakers have also rejected nearly $50 million, including $875,000 over five years for a program that aids in cancer prevention and increases access to quality care for cancer patients and $8.3 million allowing Osceola County Health Department to expand community health centers.

In June, a legislative panel turned down a $2.1 million federal grant that would have fully paid for administrative costs to pave the way for an additional $35.7 million in Medicaid funding to pay for nursing home diversions of disabled and elderly patients over the next five years.

The money was offered this year to Florida and 12 other states as part of the federal health care overhaul law. They were invited to join 29 states and the District of Columbia, which already participate in the Money Follows the Person demonstration program. Scott, a Republican, had recommended accepting the grant although he’s been a leading opponent of the federal law, but the GOP-majority commission rejected it on a split vote.
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Additionally, the state did not pursue $50 million over five years for community health programs focusing on disease prevention.

Most recently the state Legislature accepted money it originally rejected from the health care reform law for home visiting programs in Florida. Although most GOP members of the state Legislature were initially opposed, the fact that the grant money was tied to a $100 million in federal education grants changed minds.The Associated Press is reporting that Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP-led Legislature... more

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Attacks Against the Poor in State of Yellow Alert

Turncoat Rick Scott, the Governor of Florida who once lived in public housing himself,... more

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Gov. Rick Scott transition team knew of e-mail deletions in March, records show

Source: St. Petersburg Times TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott said he learned... more

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Rick Scott hammered with law suits

Hey America, how's that tea bagger thing going for you

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Rick Scott Pays $360 a Year for State Health Insurance

"Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to... more

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FL Gov. Rick Scott attends secret Koch brothers meeting in Colorado

by Dara Kam | June 28th, 2011 Florida Gov. Rick Scott attended a secret,... more

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Floats Huge Gimme to Banksters

Florida continues to show a rather disconcerting willingness to throw its citizens’ rights under the bus to help the banks. The state created special foreclosure courts to clear up a substantial backlog, which might not have been such a bad idea if they had been properly implemented. However, they were staffed with retired judges, many of whom seemed to put speed over due process. There have been numerous reports of judges refusing to hear motions or evidence presented by borrowers, to the point where the ACLU contested the procedures used as violations of due process.
To some degree, this has become moot since these kangaroo courts are expected to be shuttered (they required an extension of funding to continue). Moreover, new foreclosure filings have slowed in Florida as a result of the robo-signing scandal. The revelation of widespread abuses by banks has led some judges to dismiss cases with dubious documentation; judges are also complaining that banks are seldom coming to hearings on foreclosure cases.
Never fear, with government bought and paid for in America, someone was certain to try a fix. The Florida governor has, in effect, suggested that if banks can’t meet the existing requirements for foreclosure, then the solution obviously is to lower them. From a Daily Business Review article on a speech Florida governor Rick Scott made to the state bar association (hat tip Lisa Epstein):

The governor called on judges and lawyers to look for ways to cut court costs, improve efficiency and clear up the foreclosure backlog “as quickly as possible.” The clogging of the courts by foreclosure cases is discouraging businesses interested in moving to Florida, Scott’s main priority, he said.
“It scares people … and is clearly having an impact on the economy,” he said. “I’m looking for The Bar to come forward with suggestions on how to clear this up. Maybe we should consider nonjudicial foreclosures.”
Scott encouraged judges to carefully review verdicts to look for “meritless” cases.
“If we have a huge verdict that seems ridiculous, that adversely impacts companies who want to come to this state,” he said.

The connection between a foreclosure overhang and companies’ willingness to move to Florida seems pretty strained (and who are these business champing to relocate to Florida, anyhow? The idea that this is a meaningful number of entities in a weak economy sounds like wishful thinking). Scott presumably subscribes to the widely-discredited Mellonite logic that foreclosing rather than trying to do deep principal mods for borrowers that have viable incomes and flooding the market with foreclosure sales would somehow be an economic plus.
And look how he would like to square the circle: by turning Florida from a judicial foreclosure state (where the foreclosure has to be approved by the courts) to a non-judicial foreclosure stat (where the lender merely has to advertise the pending foreclosure and can then foreclose if the owner does not go to court to oppose the action). The good news is I am pretty sure this is easier said than done (lawyers please pipe up).more at link and sourcesFlorida continues to show a rather disconcerting willingness to throw its... more

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Rick Scott walks back executive order requiring drug testing for all FL state workers.

Yeah, the ACLU went after this one too. Something about illegal search and seizure... more

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Florida Cops Hate Rick Scott

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is so unpopular that he has caused the Broward County Police... more

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From the Community: New Jersey schools, Rick Scott and Libya

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SHOULD RICK SCOTT BE BAKER ACTED?

Rick Scott following in lockstep with the GOP's unyielding desire to KILL... more

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