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Rick Scott Is Determined To Disenfranchise Floridians

April 26, 2018 - 10:45am

Yesterday the 11th Circuit, by a vote of 2-1, gave Rick Scott a stay of Judge Mark Walker’s order to implement a new clemency program.

Rick Scott is DETERMINED to keep a large group of Floridians disenfranchised.

I guess Scott doesn’t believe in second chances.

Never mind that Rick Scott and Hospital Corporation of American (HCA) received a second chance.

The federal government allowed HCA, the company Scott founded and ran, to pay a record-breaking fine, and allowed it to continue operating. HCA didn’t have to wait a minimum of five years before operating again, you know, to make sure they had learned their lesson.

Rick Scott and HCA defrauded the government. 

If Rick Scott wants to make sure that folks “keep their noses clean,” why didn't HE make sure HCA's stayed clean?

Gee. I guess what is good for the goose, is not good for the gander.

What exactly is Rick Scott afraid of? That those voters won’t vote for him?

Trust me, there are a lot of voters who aren’t going to vote for him NOW.

His Jim Crow-era clemency rules are designed to keep a segment of Florida’s population from participating in the political process AFTER paying their debt.

Just like Rick Scott's HCA paid ITS debt. A whopping one.

Rick Scott claims he wants to make sure returning citizens are rehabilitated.

Maybe, just maybe, if they aren’t rehabilitated, it’s a problem with our criminal justice system. Has Rick Scott looked into improving that?

Of course not. You see, Scott wants to control the outcome of his campaign for U.S. Senate. He wants to ensure people who may not vote for him AREN’T able to vote at all.

He isn’t concerned about the rehabilitation of ex-felons. He is concerned about winning a U.S. Senate seat.

Rick Scott may as well require voters to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap, before they can vote.

I’m sure he would, if he could, so I guess I'd better not give him any ideas.

Leslie Wimes, a Sunshine State News columnist, is founder and president of Women on the Move and the Democratic African American Women Caucus, www.daawc.com. Follow Leslie on Twitter: @womenonthemove1

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Once you have finished your sentence it is ridiculous to believe you should be denied your rights to citizenship. If you expect men and women to rejoin society as productive citizens, we need to give them all the opportunity we would any other citizen. There is absolutely no reason that an ex-inmate should have to go do anything more than register to vote. B/T/W same goes for having a driver's license.

Just sounds like a journalist writing out of anger. More of an attack than a story.

Yes. Exactly.

one of the few times I agree with what you have to say. I agree, because the argument is valid, not because young black men are disproportionately affected by this short sighted sham of a clemency board. To suggest otherwise, is only a partisan affirmation of the law, nothing more, nothing less...

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