I am not good at my job
Top 10 for worst governor winner Rick Scott continues to leech his state's taxpayers of millions. You might remember that Rick Scott created a drug testing for welfare program deemed unconstitutional by a
three judge panel back in December. Well, being unconstitutional, requiring unreasonable searches and violating people's civil liberties can
cost you.
The state agreed earlier this month to pay $600,000 to the Florida Justice Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, which represented a single father who sued the Department of Children and Families over a 2011 welfare drug-testing law.
And then there are the legal fees:
Other costs in the welfare drug-testing case totaled at least $309,000, including $13,300 for Avram Mack, a psychiatrist and Georgetown University School of Medicine professor whose testimony was banned by a judge. The court concluded that Mack was not qualified to be an expert in the case.
The state also paid the GrayRobinson law firm at least $160,000 to represent the Department of Children and Families.
Another $375,000 goes to the ACLU for a settlement in a different lawsuit, limiting drug tests in different job classes, all being covered in the racist, poorly thought out blanket of Rick Scott's failed policy.
The amount spent on both lawsuits -- at least $1.5 million -- would cover about 8,900 days of residential substance-abuse treatment, based on average costs for in-patient treatment in Florida.
Money well spent, Rick.