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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Meet Florida Governor Rick Scott

A guy who's spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars defending laws written by corporations. Right now, Scott is defending the Firearm Owners' Privacy Act, which prohibits doctors from asking patients about gun ownership. The law was struck down by a federal judge in July – who ruled that it violated the First Amendment Rights of doctors. But since the law was created by the NRA and has ties to the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, Governor Scott is throwing sack-fulls of tax payer money to defend it. He's doing the same thing with other ALEC-written legislation passed under his watch that have been struck down in courts including laws to require drug tests for welfare recipients, prison privatization, and voter suppression. Governor Scott is one of the most loyal servants in the American corporatocracy.

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