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Florida madness...

  • 21-01-2012 8:24pm
    #1
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭


    What's the best way to pass laws or make changes to agencies that would be unpopular with voters?

    Well, the Republican dominated state legislature has the answer!

    Proposed Committee Bill 7170

    Now, I know mother jones is liberal and therefore lying, but I shall quote it anyway.
    n their longstanding fight to privatize the state's prison system—and a lot of other public services—Republican lawmakers in Florida are trying a new angle: doing it in secret.

    Proposed Committee Bill 7170, introduced Tuesday in the GOP-dominated state legislature, aims to prevent "information relating to the outsourcing or privatization of an agency function" from being reported to the voting public "until after the contract for such functions is executed." In other words, taxpayers wouldn't get to know about government work turned over to a contractor until after the contract has been signed. The bill is expected to come to a floor vote later in the recently convened spring session; with Republicans holding super-majorities in both chambers of the legislature and Rick Scott sitting in the governor's office, it could become law by this summer.

    http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/gop-florida-secret-privatization-outsourcing

    Privatising Prisons to me is a disgrace, weve already seen the cash for kids scandal. The dogs on the street know the amount of lobbying CCA do to prevent any laws regarding the war on drugs changing to keep their nice inmate numbers up, as well as backing laws in Arizona re illegal immigrants knowing it also keeps their numbers up. It's just a bald face conflict of national interest.

    Now they want to secretly do it....

    I'm glad I'm not state-side.. it is going to hell in a handbasket..


Comments

  • #2
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Florida is turning into a basket case. Like California and Maryland. The voters were asking for it too. They elected Charlie Crist, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio for god's sake. I think privatised prisons can work but they have to be highly regulated, but I don't think the governors are bothered regulating them, after all prisoners don't vote.


  • #3
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    This is in direct violation of the state's Sunshine Laws, which were enacted precisely to prevent this kind of thing - the statute covering legislative activity was actually passed by ballot initiative (since turkeys don't vote for Christmas!). Florida voters - on both sides of the aisle - know that their representatives cannot be trusted, and the politicians have been trying to circumvent these rules since they were put into place.

    As for being a basket case...well, Florida has been that way for the last 100+ years, why change now...:rolleyes:


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