Rick Scott’s new gift to Solantic: drug testing state employees

[NightWatcher]

Rick Scott’s new gift to Solantic: drug testing state employees http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/03/rick-scotts-new-gift-to-solantic-drug-testing-state-employees/

Florida has just under 168,000 state employees, including just over 105,000 in the executive branch. For Rick Scott, that means nearly 170,000 new potential customers for his … sorry, his wife’s … Solantic walk-in clinics.

Scott’s newest scheme, which will help him turn a profit from his $70 million investment in becoming a one-term Florida governor, would be genius if it weren’t so darned evil. Fresh off his plan to drug test welfare recipients in the state, compounding what for many people is an embarrassing experience, having to take public assistance, Scott now plans to visit the same humiliation on state workers. You know, the ones who haven’t had a raise in four years and who are about the have their unions shredded and their pensions hollowed out by the right wing legislature.

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Does wife's stake in Solantic pose conflict of interest to Rick Scott? http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400638/jeremy-cox/2011-03-22/does-wifes-stake-solantic-pose-conflict-interest-rick

Gov. Rick Scott has worked hard to disabuse critics of his potential conflict of interest with Solantic, the Jacksonville-based clinic chain he co-founded.

He got out of making day-to-day decisions over a year ago and, more recently, transferred his interest in the company to a trust in his wife's name.

Those efforts may be "designed to meet the letter of Florida ethics laws,

[nashville_brook]

1. maybe x-post in GD -- this needs all visibility it can get.

The conflict of interest is staggering!

[Riley18]

2. Now it makes more sense to me. All the drug testing stuff

he has been screeching for whenever he isn't gutting some vital program or occupation in Florida. I wonder if it would make much difference how many people know about it though. I mean afterall he did take the 5th around 79 times in his medicare scandal, and still he got elected.