Planned Parenthood Florida Insider Update on Uterus-Gate

[wsansewjs]

Haha you know all the buillshit going in the US Government and threatening to shutdown because of the childish blicker debate over financial on women's health care.

Do you know what my lovely girlfriend said to me?

DAMN MY VAGINA! My vagina and I want to go to the beach!

Because of the shutdown, we wouldn't be able to go to the beaches owned by state parks.

-Josh

[BridgeTroll]

Actually... Democrat voter apathy is the correct answer.  They have a 700k advantage in registered voters with nearly 2 million staying home and not voting for Ms. Sink.  She lost for the same reason Ms Moran lost.  Democrat voter apathy.  Let us hope the trend does not continue...

No.  Sorry.

Even when Democrats show up to the polls, professional republican vote caging keeps them from voting.

Although I do agree with you that her campaigning here in Duval County was just pathetic.  She could have won that election handily if she had just gotten out and worked for it.

Ms Moran did not lose because dems didnt show, she lost because republican women didnt.

A big thank you to Rick Mullaney, incidentally.

More conspiracy??  The number of caged votes lost is likely proportional to the number of dead registered democrats voting... and those voting... well... more than once.

That said... how about a simple explanation... democrat voter apathy cost Alex Sink the governorship... and left us with the most beatable republican in 20 years... Rick Scott.

It REALLY is that simple.

Now lets get back to trying to figure out how to tax those incorporated uteri...

[BridgeTroll]

Actually... Democrat voter apathy is the correct answer.  They have a 700k advantage in registered voters with nearly 2 million staying home and not voting for Ms. Sink.  She lost for the same reason Ms Moran lost.  Democrat voter apathy.  Let us hope the trend does not continue...

No.  Sorry.

Even when Democrats show up to the polls, professional republican vote caging keeps them from voting.

Although I do agree with you that her campaigning here in Duval County was just pathetic.  She could have won that election handily if she had just gotten out and worked for it.

Ms Moran did not lose because dems didnt show, she lost because republican women didnt.

A big thank you to Rick Mullaney, incidentally.

More conspiracy??  The number of caged votes lost is likely proportional to the number of dead registered democrats voting... and those voting... well... more than once.

That said... how about a simple explanation... democrat voter apathy cost Alex Sink the governorship... and left us with the most beatable republican in 20 years... Rick Scott.

It REALLY is that simple.

Now lets get back to trying to figure out how to tax those incorporated uteri...

Voter Caging in florida is a real thing.  However cemetaries voting is more of a yankee thing

I agree that it is a reprehensible tactic.  I do not understand why some republicans would stoop to such a tactic when it is so completely unnecessary as democrat voters tend to not go to the polls all by themselves... at least when we are just electing a governor...

[FayeforCure]

Actually... Democrat voter apathy is the correct answer.  They have a 700k advantage in registered voters with nearly 2 million staying home and not voting for Ms. Sink.  She lost for the same reason Ms Moran lost.  Democrat voter apathy.  Let us hope the trend does not continue...

Thank you for hoping the Democratic apathy trend will not continue, but it is a major side-effect of gerry-mandering.

The truth is that in most races the Democratic vote really doesn't matter. For example the last time the Democratic vote in John Mica's 7th congressional district mattered was in 1990. His district was successfully drawn that even though we have a growing percentage of Dems now, the Republicans still outnumber any potential Democratic voters by a huge margin. The same is true for the majority of state districts for state House and state Senate.

But let me correct you one more time.............none of the gerry-mandering impacts state-wide races, like the governor's, directly (except indirectly in the form of Democratic voter apathy because their distrct votes have no value whatsoever). For state-wide races, we are one. The districts don't matter at all in any direct sense.

So that is NOT the reason Rick Scott wants to stop Fair Districting. He just wants to be assured of having a very solidly Republican legislature (through continued gerry-mandering) so that even when there are a few Republican who support women's issues for example, they will not be able to help the measly numbers of Democrats who ARE fighting for women's issues.

You've see it in the committee report that started this thread:

This week SB 1744 â€" mandating women have an ultrasound and hear a description of the sonogram passed out of the Senate Health Regulation Committee by 7-5 vote.  Republican Senators Bennett, Jones and Latvala joined Democratic Senators Ring and Sobel in voting against.  However, two other bills slated to be heard in the same committee were Temporarily Postponed (TP’d).

The Senate Health Regulation Committee has 12 members. Of these 12 members, there are only 2 Democrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See something "unfair" yet?

OK, so now we have three Republicans helping defend women together with the Democrats. YAY!!!

BUT   still not enough to protect us women!

More unnecessary medical costs to women in a situation that is already exceedingly difficult for them, AND Republicans want the GOVERNMENT to come between the woman and her doctor. Sound hypocritical yet?

THAT is why we need Fair Districting. Only then will 18 bills attacking women's rights in a very unconstitutional way, not even see the light of day, and waste precious time in the legislature with disasterous consequences to us women!!!!

[Jaxson]

Women stayed silent in this last election.  They even failed to rally around Alex Sink.  This should have been a home run for the women's movement in ensuring that they helped to elect a governor who was going to directly address women's issues.  Instead, the same "There is no difference between political parties" mantra was being recited.  Rick Scott won in a close election because he and Alex Sink were supposedly one in the same.  The Republicans won super majorities in the state legislature, not just because of gerrymandering, but because many Floridians bought into the anti-Obama backlash mood.  The GOP successfully managed to nationalize this election and was able to obscure some of their more radical ideas.  Once in, the governor and the state legislature can claim a 'mandate' to do pretty much what they want to do.  The only shame is that buyer's remorse is a day late and a dollar short for those voters who would have voted for Alex Sink today had they known how things were going to turn out...