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meow2u3

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Tue Jan 13, 2015, 03:46 PM Jan 2015

‘It’s about vilifying people’: Group shames Wisc. GOP with urine sample cups over welfare drug tests

A group of Wisconsin activists delivered urine sample cups to Republican lawmakers on Monday over a plan to drug test welfare recipients.

WMTV followed members of the Wisconsin National Organization for Women (NOW) on Monday as they headed to the Wisconsin State Capitol wearing medical gloves and scrubs, where they delivered a labeled urine cup to the office of every Republican lawmaker.

Wisconsin NOW President Dayna Long said that elected officials needed to understand that drug testing welfare recipients would cause more problems that it would solve.

“First of all, it’s a violation to the right to privacy,” she explained. “Federal court of appeals has already ruled that it’s a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”

“This isn’t about saving the state money or removing people from welfare, this is about vilifying people who are receiving public assistance,” Long added.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/its-about-vilifying-people-group-shames-wisc-gop-with-urine-sample-cups-over-welfare-drug-tests/

Question is, will this attempt to shame repukes in WI work, or are those rethugs too far gone even to feel shame?

Anyhow, WTG, WI NOW!!

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‘It’s about vilifying people’: Group shames Wisc. GOP with urine sample cups over welfare drug tests (Original Post) meow2u3 Jan 2015 OP
Kickin' Faux pas Jan 2015 #1
Talk about a waste of taxpayers money, it's implementing a policy that has already been found to be Arkansas Granny Jan 2015 #2
Republicans know no shame. Bandit Jan 2015 #3

Arkansas Granny

(31,534 posts)
2. Talk about a waste of taxpayers money, it's implementing a policy that has already been found to be
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 04:46 PM
Jan 2015

unconstitutional and then have to defend it in court. In the case of Florida's drug testing program, it would up costing the state more money to administer the tests than they saved in benefits denied.

Stupid is a s stupid does.

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