{"id":1619,"date":"2012-04-10T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2012-04-10T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:12:10","slug":"rick-scott-vetoes-bill-sending-non-violent-drug-offenders-to-rehab-after-serving-half-sentence-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/rick-scott-vetoes-bill-sending-non-violent-drug-offenders-to-rehab-after-serving-half-sentence-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott Vetoes Bill Sending Non-Violent Drug Offenders To Rehab After Serving Half Sentence In Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe said it was a &#8216;public safety\u2019 issue. No it\u2019s not,\u201d said bill sponsor Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Fort Lauderdale) according to the Miami Herald. \u201cThese are non-violent drug offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill, a rare common sense favorite during a legislative season that saw Scott approve dying animals and Jay-Z lyrics debated on the House floor, was opposed by only four state lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Sold on Bogdanoff&#8217;s argument that the state would save money by getting potential re-offenders the help they need for addiction, lawmakers including typically tough-on-crime conservatives overwhelmingly sped the bill through the House 40-0 and the Senate 112-4.<\/p>\n<p>But though offenders would remain in custody during the rehabilitation portion of their sentences, Scott said in his veto statement that the bill would violate laws against early release &#8212; and be an injustice to &#8220;victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/04\/10\/gov-rick-scott-vetoes-bil_n_1414758.html\">Rick Scott Vetoes Bill Sending Non-Violent Drug Offenders To Rehab After Serving Half Sentence In Jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe said it was a &#8216;public safety\u2019 issue. No it\u2019s not,\u201d said bill sponsor Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Fort Lauderdale) according to the Miami Herald. \u201cThese are non-violent drug offenders.\u201d The bill, a rare common sense favorite during a legislative season that saw Scott approve dying animals and Jay-Z lyrics debated on the House floor, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[203,1053,63,1054,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619"}],"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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}