{"id":1187,"date":"2012-01-23T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:33:12","slug":"florida-republicans-plan-to-block-out-the-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/florida-republicans-plan-to-block-out-the-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Republicans&#8217; Plan to Block Out the Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their longstanding fight to privatize the state&#8217;s prison system\u2014and a lot of other public services\u2014Republican lawmakers in Florida are trying a new angle:\u00a0doing it in secret.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed Committee Bill 7170, introduced Tuesday in the GOP-dominated state legislature, aims to prevent &#8220;information relating to the outsourcing or privatization of an agency function&#8221; from being reported to the voting public &#8220;until after the contract for such functions is executed.&#8221; In other words, taxpayers wouldn&#8217;t get to know about government work turned over to a contractor until after the contract has been signed. The bill is expected to come to a floor vote later in the recently convened spring session; with Republicans holding supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature and Rick Scott sitting in the governor&#8217;s office, it could become law by this summer.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/01\/gop-florida-secret-privatization-outsourcing\">Florida Republicans&#8217; Plan to Block Out the Sunshine | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their longstanding fight to privatize the state&#8217;s prison system\u2014and a lot of other public services\u2014Republican lawmakers in Florida are trying a new angle:\u00a0doing it in secret. Proposed Committee Bill 7170, introduced Tuesday in the GOP-dominated state legislature, aims to prevent &#8220;information relating to the outsourcing or privatization of an agency function&#8221; from being reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,22,7],"tags":[63,784,785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}