and other good stuff in Florida. I have decided to look for more blog stuff, and the news seems to be repeating the same old same old. This blog ties Armor and MCCI and Florida's rush to privatize without going with competitive bids.
Note they deny anything about the religious reason for denying the pill. Ok, I serously doubt Mom made that up. I mean, come on. The girl had been raped, and I doubt she had the presence of mind to make up something like this.
The blogger sums the stuff about Armor and MCCI up this way:
The medical services at the jail are run by Armor Correctional Health Services an affiliate of Medical Care Consortium, Inc., which has donated $18,000 to Republicans and $4,000 to conservative Democrats since its founding in 1998, according to opensecrets.org.
One lobbyist for MCCI is Sports Illustrated writer Don Yaeger, who was suspected of doing favors for Jeb Bush's second Secretary of Corrections, James Crosby. Why would he do such a thing? Because they wanted the big state contracts being offered up by Jeb's drive to privatize the whole friggin state apparatus. There was a requirement, though, that a company had to manage the health of 10,000 inmates for a year. Managing Hillsborough county's jail was just a step along the path to a bigger payday, and MCCI tried to get the state to lift the 10,000 head requirement based on the Hillsborough gig--which Armor bid on three days after being founded and won despite not being the lowest bidder for the job and submitting MCCI's financials instead of its own. Hillsborough is, of course, where the young woman was detained and denied the medical treatment prescribed by her doctor. It was also inside Katherine Harris's old district and one of her biggest supporters, both politically and financially, was Don Yaeger.
What does this all mean? It means that a near-maniacal belief in the power of privatization to make life better, the appointment of corrupt bastards, connections to dirty lobbyists and fucking over the people you're supposed to help aren't simply aspects of the George W. Bush administration. It seems to run in the family.
This is interesting stuff.
There is just loads and loads of finger pointing.
http://thelastduchess.blogspot.com/2007/01/update-tampa-officials-apologize-to.htmlOff to find more blog stuff. We can not let this drop.