Ah, the Gunshine State. They elected a Governor who's basically a fraud last year. Then he sent a budget to the legislature that cuts education funding by hundreds of millions, upon billions of dollars, while cutting corporate taxes. Just when you thought the insanity had reached a tipping point...Nope.
First, the Florida Senate just approved a bill that will make it harder to sue automakers for a defective part causing you injury. State Senator Garrett Richter (R-Naples) is the sponsor of the bill, which was lobbied for hard by Ford and others. Now, we're not talking about the cases where the accident has nothing to do with the parts, but people sue the companies here, I agree with shielding them then- we're talking about the accidents where defective parts do cause the issue. Look, this is simply allowing negligence to go unchecked, and that's wrong.
Richter's behavior isn't even the worst from his own town though. State Rep. Kathleen Passidomo (R-Naples) takes the cake easily.
"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," Passidomo declared.
"And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students," she added.
At this time, I'll avoid the discussion of the actual bill, about dress-codes, because it has some merit. Passidomo's "example" has no merit. You do not blame an 11 year-old girl for her own gang rape, period, end of story, ever. It doesn't matter how she dressed, or anything of the sort. She is not at fault, not even .01%.
What's the matter with Florida?
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