{"id":526,"date":"2006-05-04T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=526"},"modified":"2006-05-04T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T04:02:25","slug":"more-florida-voucher-politics-strangeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"More Florida voucher-politics strangeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If yesterday saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000467.html\">parliamentary resurrection<\/a> of the referendum proposal that would authorize voucher programs in the state constitution, today had <a href=\"http:\/\/tdo.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060503\/CAPITOLNEWS06\/60503002\/-1\/CAPITOLNEWS\">retaliatory maneuvers that slowed the state senate to a crawl<\/a> for an hour, as the Democrats forced the word-for-word reading of two otherwise-uncontroversial bills. Fort Lauderdale Democratic Senator Mandy Dawson then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/news\/nation\/14493910.htm\">accused the governor<\/a> of threatening to veto bills important to her constituency unless she voted for vouchers, amid other signs that the pull-out-all-stops tactics of the governor and his allies on vouchers was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/florida\/sfl-0503voucher,0,5520225.story?coll=sfla-news-florida\">instead hardening positions of several Black state senators<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060503\/NEWS\/60503017\/0\/CLASSIFIEDS01\">Said my own state senator<\/a>, Victor Crist, &#8220;The under-flowing politics, and the undermining and the backstabbing and the threats and the arm-twisting, have been unbelievable.&#8221; I&#8217;m fairly sure he was referring to his own party (Republicans).<br \/>\nNext up in the state senate: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/session\/index.cfm?BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&#038;Mode=Bills&#038;SubMenu=1&#038;Year=2006&#038;billnum=2234\">attempted statutory fix<\/a> which would put the failing-schools voucher program inside the corporate tax-credit voucher structure. Even if it doesn&#8217;t raise the hackles of the state supreme court in terms of the funding-structure issues in <cite>Bush v. Holmes<\/cite>, there is the question of uniformity yet to be defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If yesterday saw the parliamentary resurrection of the referendum proposal that would authorize voucher programs in the state constitution, today had retaliatory maneuvers that slowed the state senate to a crawl for an hour, as the Democrats forced the word-for-word reading of two otherwise-uncontroversial bills. Fort Lauderdale Democratic Senator Mandy Dawson then accused the governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-8u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}