Bill Nelson Warns Rick Scott to Veto Election Bill or Face a Federal Investigation

• Jim Crow voting laws? I guess this new law will match the Jim Crow drivers license law, the Jim Crow check cashing law, the Jim Crow aircraft boarding law, and the Jim Crow alcohol purchase law.

• LOL, Rick Scott is an idiot. Another bought and paid for politician only looking out for his own interests. www.totally-anon.at.tc

• Whew. Passage of the bestiality law will add peace to my sleep. Jobs? What jobs? So far we should have added close to 60K jobs from the 700,000. He's killing me. Why are, by far, the funniest state in the nation.

• I want him to sign it. I want to seem in the Fed's scope and then sit back, relax, and listen to the reasoning. It should be quite entertaining.

• The bill is an obvious violation of the Voting Rights Act. The required pre-clearance was neither sought nor obtained. I won't take much of a lawyer to convince a federal judge to enjoin the new Florida statute, at least until arguments can be heard. The majority simply does not have the power to suppress the votes of any minority.

• Boo Hoo. There has been NO racial voter discrimination in Florida for many years. Grow up Democrats. Try running a campaign on something other than giving money to those who really really don't want to have to work for it. Then you won't have to pander to criminals, the greedy, the stupid, the illegal and the lazy. Go Ricky!!!

• It would seem to be obvious that voter's rights should be uniform across the United States. The Voter's Rights Act sections which apply differentially to the various states are, in the year 2011, a joke. Perhaps for a couple of decades from the inception of the legislation, I could buy it. But in the nearly 50 years since the Act was passed there has been a little bit of change going on. I migrated to FL 3 years ago from Atlanta, where I had lived for 10 years, having lived nearly 40 years prior to that in Wisconsin. The State of Florida is predominantly folks who were born somewhere else. The people who were behind whatever voting rights violations existed in the 1960s are, for the most part, dead and buried by now and the evils that the legislation was aimed at have been eliminated, or at least dissipated to the point of not being recognizable in 2011. The population of this state, and of states like Georgia is very dynamic over time – these are not,by any means the people who were utilizing Jim Crow laws in the 1940's and 1950's. Why should select southern states and their citizens in 2011 be subject to special scrutiny and process administered from the Justice Department in D.C.? Doesn't the concept of “Equal Justice Under the Law”, chiseled into the Justice Department HQ, at some point mean that you cannot continue to treat some states, and thus their voters and citizens, differently than other states, based on some very remote history? Bill Nelson is full of it on this issue. And he is going down in next year's election.

• I give up. Our state is run by self-righteous morons. It is no solace to me that I did not vote for them. I don't know why we need bestiality legislation when the world is supposed to end next week.

• So we get an election bill to strip away voter rights and bring on Federal lawsuits (and guess who pays for both the Feds prosecutors and the State of Florida's defense attorneys? -WE DO!!!) Plus as a bonus, we get a bestiality bill - legislation sure to waste even more of Florida's dwindling resources. Good going Florida Legislature!! Where are the jobs!!! The Republican Party campaigned on jobs and the economy in 2010. What have you done to bring people and businesses to Florida? No one in their right mind would move their employees here at this point! That's going to do wonders for our property values. Curtailing civil liberties, picking workers pockets with money grabs and flooding the docket with insane legislation like bestiality laws was not your mandate. Thank you for ensuring that President Obama will win Florida again in 2012. I did not think it was possible a year ago but you have done so little good and so much harm in 4 months that even the folks that voted you in are scratching their heads in disbelief. Lets get to work my aching prostate!! Here's a headline: "Florida creates 67 new bestiality positions." I guess those will be the new jobs that the Governor was talking about.

• The press in Florida has failed to tell readers that the bill also disenfranchises voters who might want to vote for a new party's presidential candidate.

• Voters did have their say. They spoke loud and clear when they answered the call for change by turning the Republican's simple majority in the Florida house into an undefeatable super-majority and voting an inexperienced, heavy-handed conservative into the govenor's mansion.

• Whis is suprised? The voters elected a criminal. Pretty soon only the rich will be able to vote.

• Insanity. Shouldnt the voters be allowed to have THEIR say?

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