Key West Conchs give Gov. Rick Scott a (urine) sample of their love

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Key West Conchs give Gov. Rick Scott a (urine) sample of their love

Edited on Sat Apr-02-11 10:37 AM by seafan

Michael C Bender reports in Tampa Bay's The Buzz:

April 2, 2011

A group of Key West residents calling themselves the Committee for the Positive Insistence on a Sane Society (PISS) plans to gather at high noon today to gather a communal, Southernmost urine sample.

The committee says this is a peaceful protest of Scott's plan to drug test state employees. "In one breath our CEO professes to be focusing on cutting wasteful government spending and laying off tens of thousands of state employees, while at the same time he announces a program to drug test state employees without any legitimate basis for such an invasion of privacy," attorney Robert Cinton wrote in the press release.

The sample supposedly be "kept under lock and seal" until it can be transported to Tallahassee. "In his way, the committee will save the Florida taxpayers from the expense of paying for individual drug testing in Key West," according to the press release.

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This criminal fraudster sitting in our Governor's mansion is virulently despised.

Oh, and he *won* by a mere 61,550 votes.

And, again, there was "a delay" in reporting the totals from Palm Beach County, where, interestingly, Alex Sink beat Scott in Palm Beach County by more than 69,000 votes....

Edited to add:

Why are Floridians continually abused from the State House?

Especially when we received updated polling of Sink's strong lead over Scott as near to the election as Oct. 18-21...

October 25, 2011

NAPLES — Driven by the overwhelming support of independents and moderates, Democrat Alex Sink has opened a nearly 5-point lead over her Republican opponent, Rick Scott, in the race to be Florida’s next governor, a new Naples Daily News/Zogby poll shows.

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Both candidates saw their favorable ratings drop and their unfavorable ratings rise, thanks in part to their seemingly incessant negative advertisements.

However, Scott’s numbers appear to be reaching politically unhealthy levels.

The poll showed that 47 percent of overall respondents — including 61 percent of moderates and 33 percent of conservatives — view Scott either somewhat unfavorably or very unfavorably. Forty percent of respondents — including 24 percent of moderates and 20 percent of liberals — said the same about Sink.

That should be a red flag for Scott, said John Zogby, chairman of Zogby International.

“This poll doesn’t really have any good news for him,” Zogby said. “She doesn’t have it locked, but clearly he’s the one that’s on the ropes.”

Publicly, the Scott campaign wasn’t concerned.

“This is going to be a close election,” Scott campaign spokesman Joe Kildea said in an e-mail, “and as voters learn more about Sink’s granting criminals waivers to access the private information of Floridians and her ties to Obama’s liberal economic mantra, they will see that Rick is the clear choice to grow jobs and the economy in Florida.”

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We despised him them, and we detest him now.

Until we return to hand counted paper ballots at each precinct, we cannot trust the outcome of our elections.

That is the reason Floridians are continually harmed by those who steal power.

That, and the constant attempts by the hard right to overturn the will of the voters.