Rick Scott declines Comedy Central drug test

Florida Governor Rick Scott was asking for $1 billion more in education funding while handling a $2 billion budget gap.

Reporter Aasif Mandvi with Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with John Stewart" asked him to pee in a cup while the governor was taking questions on the budget.

Scott's had demanded that drug tests be required for welfare recipients, but a judge threw out the law because few welfare recipients tested positive for drugs.

The reporter tried to get a plastic cup passed up to Scott, so he could "prove to Florida taxpayers you're not on drugs."

"I've done it plenty of times," the governor responded.

Here is a link to the Rick Scott video: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-2-2012/poor-pee-ple

see the complete story at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/rick-scott-asked-to-pee_n_1135141.html

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Huffington Post: Legislating Under the Influence

The GOP view of drug testing

Rightrdia recently wrote an article about Rick Scott's paln to test people applying for welfare for drugs. A federal judge ruled the law a flagrant violation of the Constitution's ban on unreasonable search and seizure. Only 2.5 per cent of the applicants for welfare failed the drug test. The Florida government even required the welfare applicants to pay a fee to take the test which was refundable.

The ACLU said the study found the drug testing program would cost more to run than the state could possibly save by eliminating drug users on welfare.

Michigan had passed a similar law in 2003 that the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals found unconstitutional.

Democratic state Rep. Scott Holcomb of Georgia introduced a bill requiring members of the state legislature to prove they're not Legislating Under the Influence.

Holcomb told HuffPost that he drafted the bill in a reaction to a bill from his Republican colleagues to drug test welfare applicants.


Holcomb said:

I was really struck by how awful it was. I wanted to bring some attention to it.

Hocolmb added that If they're gonna play this legislative game, this is how we're gonna play it.

Regardless of the sex, Rightardia loves Democrats with cojones. More are needed!

sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/07/unemployment_n_1189989.html

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/08/florida-to-charge-welfare-applicants-to-take-drug-test/

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Daily Show: Rick Scott asked to pee in a cup

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Gov. Rick Scott and his drug testing policy became the unwitting target of Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" on Wednesday as a reporter for the show broke into budget news conference and asked the governor to "pee into this cup.''

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Why some hard data is needed before Florida passes more stupid laws

The GOP stereotype of the welfare queen

Rick Scott instituted a drug test for welfare recipients. Of the people who took the test, only 2.5 per cent failed which represents 9 people.

Nearly 600 went through every step of the application process but were denied benefits because they declined to take the test.

A judge stopped the program because she thought many of the decliners may have done so because the test cost $30 and they couldn't afford the fee.

If the state had thought the drug test program through, it would have used their nickle to pay for the drug tests. Charging a welfare applicant a fee to get welfare benefits is peculiar and inappropriate.

U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven halted the program. She wrote in her order that she was not impressed with the data the Florida government provided on the program.

A TBO article indicated the program was not cost effective and saved no money.

Had the government not stereotyped welfare applicants, they could have run a pilot program to see if this program would save the state money and if welfare recipients have a drug problem.

Florida has many fine universities that can do this sort of a study.

Instead the Rick Scott government used a stereotype that assumed many people were on welfare because of drugs. This was a bad assumption.

This is also an example of Rush Limbaugh style class warfare

sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/rick-scott-drug-test-welfare_n_1031024.html

http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2011/aug/24/3/welfare-drug-testing-yields-2-percent-positive-res-ar-252458/

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