via @grimm_fred
As tantrums go, this was historic. Some of the toughest kindergarteners in the state could only hoist their juice boxes and toast our state reps in admiration.
In the snit of all snits, Speaker Steve Crisafulli shut down the Florida House of Representatives on Tuesday. The 60-day legislative session, at least on the House side, lurched to a stop after Day 57. Senate President Andy Gardiner warned Crisafulli on Wednesday that he and his fellow reps were flouting the state Constitution — not that Crisafulli cared.
Crisafulli’s mighty pique was all about Medicaid expansion and the temerity of the Florida Senate to adopt a budget including federal money that would provide healthcare for 850,000 low-income Floridians — and also keep our public hospitals from tumbling into insolvency.
Apparently, the Merritt Island real estate broker (best known for his hunting junkets to the King Ranch in Texas) regards denying healthcare to the working poor as a bedrock principle, beyond compromise.
But his unexpected decision to abandon Tallahassee early had the subsidiary effect of sabotaging other notable legislation, some of which seemed downright crucial.
More here.
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