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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 01:45 AM Apr 2012

Florida Senate women flex muscles

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Sunday, 04.15.12
Florida Senate women flex muscles

A group of women in the Florida Senate joined together in the past session to kill a number of bills, including the expansion of private prisons and anti-abortion measure.

By Brittany Alana Davis
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

TALLAHASSEE -- On the final day of the 2012 legislative session, Sen. Paula Dockery worked the Senate chamber, counting “no” votes on a bill to turn failing public schools into private charter schools.

She and fellow senators — mostly women — had rallied against the controversial proposal for weeks.

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By Dockery’s count, the bill should go down on a tie vote (there are no tiebreakers in the Florida Senate). But she stood tense at the vote screen, biting a nail. The computer tallied the vote, and her hands swung over her head.

~snip~
The tie was another proud moment for Dockery, a Lakeland Republican, and her ragtag caucus of Senate floaters.
Together, they defeated a massive expansion of private prisons, blocked an omnibus antiabortion bill from debate and prevented unregulated, out-of-state companies from taking over state-sponsored homeowners insurance.


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Florida Senate women flex muscles (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2012 OP
Fact: We need more women in legislative bodies at local and national levels. toddwv Apr 2012 #1
That insurance bill. drm604 Apr 2012 #2
You'll see more of it with the extreme weather. EC Apr 2012 #5
Very interesting. Baitball Blogger Apr 2012 #3
That's actually really good news coming out of the Florida legislature lunatica Apr 2012 #4

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
1. Fact: We need more women in legislative bodies at local and national levels.
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 06:11 AM
Apr 2012

I know that not all of them are free of the conservative bug, but the odds are pretty good.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
2. That insurance bill.
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 07:39 AM
Apr 2012

I wonder how many bills like that are currently flying under the radar in various states. The privatization of schools and prisons, and attempts to limit women's rights make the news (as well they should!) and we all fight and petition against them (as well we should!) but things like that insurance bill get buried in all the hoopla.

I have to wonder how many things like that are being passed, and I have to wonder if some of the other controversial, high visibility issues are being raised partly to draw attention away from things like it.

EC

(12,287 posts)
5. You'll see more of it with the extreme weather.
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 02:04 PM
Apr 2012

In Florida the state had to take over home owners insurance because the private insurers started refusing to cover or hiking premiums so extreme, no one could afford them. Now it looks as though the state can't afford it either and are looking for some out of state suckers.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. That's actually really good news coming out of the Florida legislature
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 11:47 AM
Apr 2012

I'm happy Florida has some Democratic legislators willing to take on the slide into Hell and fight back.

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