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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-11 04:35 AM
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Would some DUer please tell me what it will take
to have self-interested, looters of the state like Rick Scott thrown in prison for conflict of interest? Maybe you can start with impeachment for violating the constitution.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/27/2137314/gov-rick-scotts-drug-testing-order.html
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“You can’t do blanket tests like that. They’re facially unconstitutional,’’ said Ephraim Hess, a Davie attorney who prevailed over the City of Hollywood in April 2000 when U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp ruled that governments cannot require prospective employees to take drug tests unless there is a “special need,’’ such as safety. Ryskamp’s ruling led other South Florida cities, such as Pembroke Pines, to abandon their policy of drug testing all job applicants.

Random drug-testing of current government workers also has been limited to those in jobs that affect public safety and to cases where a reasonable suspicion of abuse exists, according to a December 2004 federal court ruling in a case that involved Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice.

In that case, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle ruled that the DJJ violated the Fourth Amendment in ordering random drug-testing of all the agency’s 5,000-plus employees.

Hinkle ordered the agency to stop random drug-testing and pay $150,000 to the employee who sued, Roderick Wenzel.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/27/2137314/gov-rick-scotts-drug-testing-order.html#ixzz1I4e5GDVc
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Tunkamerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-11 04:39 AM
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1. here's a blog by someone who doesn't like wenzel:
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rightbylaw Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-01-11 11:08 AM
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3. Random Testing
Seems like that Wenel fellow should have quit if he didn't want to be random tested.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-11 04:41 AM
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2. It will take honest judges and prosecutors.
Which is why we have to vote even when the main candidate is not the Messiah.
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