May 1, 2006
KILLING BLAINE:
Vote looms on voucher program (GARY FINEOUT, 5/01/06, MiamiHerald.com)
The fate of a seven-year-old private-school voucher program could be decided this morning in the Florida Senate.The chamber is scheduled to vote on whether to send to the November ballot a far-reaching constitutional amendment that would authorize vouchers and make them immune to any further legal challenges. [...]
The measure sponsored by Sen. Daniel Webster, a Winter Garden Republican, states that lawmakers can authorize voucher programs that serve disabled children, low-income children or any other criteria established by the Legislature.
The constitutional amendment also says that any education program, from pre-kindergarten to college scholarships, would not violate a separate provision in the Constitution that prohibits any state aid going to religious institutions.
Especially fitting to fix this anti-Catholic remnant on the day of the immigration rally. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 1, 2006 9:14 AM
This could move the whole nation rightward, the Florida primary and electoral weight being what it is. Breeders will flock to Florida if this passes and it will become redder and redder.
Posted by: Palmcroft at May 1, 2006 12:07 PM'Breeders'? That's a vile little slur....
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at May 1, 2006 1:06 PMA slur? Hardly. High praise, I should say.
Our contempt and loathing is is for the radically selfish flies of a summer.
Posted by: Lou Gots at May 1, 2006 2:22 PMNow, now. Blaine was just making sure that the Papists didn't steal the country from its rightful owners, the Freemasons and the Illuminati.