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Gov. Scott's anti-middle class budget continues to dramatically underfund Florida's public schools, cuts hundreds of millions from health care for our children, seniors, and the disabled, and costs thousands of jobs. Meanwhile, the budget creates more than $100 million in new special interest tax giveaways.
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Private prison contractors heavily contributed to the campaign coffers of anti-middle class legislators and they were ready to cash in with a massive scheme to privatize all state prisons in south Florida. Fortunately our middle class champions stood up and despite overwhelming odds, defeated this potential boondoggle that would have cost thousands of jobs.
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Foreclosures are a real problem in Florida, mostly because big banks don't have the proper paperwork to foreclose on a property. Anti-middle class legislators introduced this bill to speed up foreclosures and give the banks unprecedented control over the process instead of actually fixing the problem.
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Anti-public school extremists pushed a "parent trigger" bill that would've allowed public schools to be turned over to unaccountable, private charter school operators. The Florida PTA along with almost every parent group in the state opposed this insidious attack on public education.
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Anti-middle class extremists continued their long-running war on women by introducing their Omnibus Anti-Choice Act, which attempted to create a host of new barriers and restrictions to women's access to reproductive health care.
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Last year, a federal judge suspended Gov. Scott's plan to drug test all Floridians who apply for public assistance. This year, despite urgings to stop wasting taxpayer dollars trying to defend a clearly unconstitutional law, Scott's anti-middle class allies worked to pass a new, intrusive drug testing regime though the Legislature.
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Despite 63% of Florida voters approving the Fair Districts Amendments in the 2010 election, anti-middle class legislators went to work trying to side-step or undermine the spirit of Fair Districts. Middle class champions fought hard against another decade's worth of gerrymandered, unfair districts designed solely to protect incumbent politicians.
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The Wage Thief Protection Act would have eliminated a successful Miami-Dade County program that prevents employers from stealing the wages that you have earned. The act would have prohibited counties from adopting ordinances to successfully fight wage theft by saying only the state could regulate wage theft. Of course, there is no plan for the state to take action and combat wage theft, which robs $60-90 million from Floridians' paychecks every year.
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The "PIP bill" reduced the level of personal injury protection insurance available to Floridians who are involved in a car accident from $10,000 to only $2,500 unless you meet certain conditions. There is no guarantee that insurance rates will actually decrease for consumers. This was a top priority of insurance industry lobbyists, but not middle class families.
