Showing posts with label Rick Scott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Scott. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2012

Florida Lays Off State Workers After Outsourcing Prisoners’ Health Care To A Private Company

Florida Lays Off State Workers After Outsourcing Prisoners’ Health Care To A Private Company: Now that Florida’s Department of Corrections has auctioned off the job of providing state inmates with health services to the highest-bidding companies, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is moving ahead with his controversial plan to privatize prisoners’ health care. Since Florida is now locked into a contract with Corizon Healthcare of Nashville, and plans to [...]/p

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Florida Supervisors Of Elections Speak Out Against New Voter Purge

Florida Supervisors Of Elections Speak Out Against New Voter Purge: As Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) and his Secretary of State continue their Ahab-like attempts to revive their failed voter purge, a bipartisan chorus of local elections supervisors are expressing frustration and concern about the cost and timing of the effort. Wednesday, the Scott administration reached a partial settlement with civil rights groups who had objected [...]/p

Monday, July 30, 2012

Florida Governor Rick Scott Preaches Austerity, Spends Big On Frivolous Lawsuits

Florida Governor Rick Scott Preaches Austerity, Spends Big On Frivolous Lawsuits: Florida Governor Rick Scott has spoken a lot about cutting government spending, lowering taxes for corporations, and removing social safety nets that millions of people rely on. But while he is busy eliminating more than $3 billion from public classrooms, his administration is simultaneously racking up hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in legal expenses [...]/p