"Drug testing: Florida aims to be first to test public workers" or Legislating hypocrisy

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Drug testing: Florida aims to be first to test public workers

New Florida drug-testing law allows agency heads to randomly test public workers for illegal drugs, prescription drugs, and alcohol. But it exempts the governor and state legislators.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0319/Drug-testing-Florida-aims-to-be-first-to-test-public-workers

How convenient that the idiots creating this law forgot to include themselves in this witch hunt!

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@tsarstepan,

Funny how that works, isn't it? I'm totally behind drug testing - so long as it is necessary for safety or national security. Airline pilots come to mind.

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@tsarstepan,

You surely dont expect our leaders to give up their God given rights and be treated like the common masses. One would think you were born in a democracy where the people control government. After all the 1% dont want the serfs to get above themselves.

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Some of the freaks in office have to be high to believe and act the way they do and it's not a good high either, bad acid or something.

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@jcboy,

That maybe the case JC. As pointed above, random drug testing has it's benefits to society and even the public workers themselves. But the legislature has exempt themselves because of of one Supreme Court decision against the testing of public officials and candidates. I bet a better worded law (attaching drug testing to the state legislature) would get it's way around the Supreme Court decision mentioned in the article.

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@roger,

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Funny how that works, isn't it? I'm totally behind drug testing - so long as it is necessary for safety or national security. Airline pilots come to mind.

Who gets to define "so long as it is necessary for safety or national security"? Where is that line?

I don't believe that one could ever not make the case for safety in any job we can imagine. That's why something as innocuous as a Wal-Mart stocker, for instance, is subjected to drug testing. And that's only one reason why I'm against drug testing, particularly for marijuana.

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Wasn't it Florida that wanted to test welfare recipients?

Does the governor have a interest in a drug testing company?

Someone must be making a profit in all of this. Follow the money!

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@tycoon,

I'm thinking OSHA and National Transportation Safety Board. Who were you thinking of?

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@roger,

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I'm thinking OSHA and National Transportation Safety Board. Who were you thinking of?

I'm thinking no one should have the right to my urine.

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The drug testing of people who receive public assistance was a big expensive waste too. If I remember correctly, 9% of general public would or does test positively for drug use. only 2% of those who receive public assistance did. The teabaggers should just sit back and enjoy sucking scrotum. That's all they're good for.

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@boomerang,

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Does the governor have a interest in a drug testing company?

He did indeed had shares in a major drug testing company in the state and when he got heat for it he try transfering the stocks to his wife!!!!

The last I hear is when that did not work he did end up selling his and his wife shares however I would not be surprise if he can count on that industry future support in running for office.

As already been posted here the rate of drug use among those receiving public support found in a testing program was less then the general population of the state of Florida as a whole.

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Pam Bondi is the Attorney General of the state of Florida.

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Bondi is the lead attorney general in the lawsuit seeking to overturn Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services.

In the lawsuit the State of Florida and 26 other states have argued that the individual mandate provision of the PPACA violates the Constitution.

Some former lawyers of the attorney general's office have criticized their former employer for preferential treatment of corporations and law firms.

Critics have also charged that two of Bondi's assistant district attorneys investigating foreclosure fraud were admonished and then forced out of their jobs

They also point out that Bondi has accepted campaign contributions from companies under investigation by the attorney general's office.

Through a spokeswoman Bondi responded, "We aggressively prosecute wrongdoing regardless of the subject of the investigation."

When asked today if her staff in Tallahassee would be taking drug tests she refused to answer.

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