Posted on 06/13/2011 9:57:54 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Helen Gordon Davis is a former state representative and senator. She championed judicial reforms, joined the NAACP as its first white female member in Florida and lobbied on behalf of homemakers who suddenly found themselves without a source of income.
This year, the 84-year-old Floridian gave $100,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union because she's angry at Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature for a number of new laws they signed off on this spring. She's hoping the group will use her money along with other donations to challenge the changes in court.
The ACLU has already followed through, filing a pair of lawsuits against the Scott administration this month, and promising more. Fighting back is exactly what Davis wants.
"I am not a rich woman, but I feel so strongly about it," the Tampa Democrat said in an interview with the Sun Sentinel.
Scott, a novice Republican politician, swept into office with the support of Florida tea parties that have largely backed some of his major initiatives. Those include testing welfare recipients for drugs , merit pay for teachers, making public employees contribute to pensions and budget cuts.
But while pleasing supporters, Scott's actions so far appear to have won over few of his ideological foes or Floridians on the fence and may prove a boon to the largely left-of-center activists and Democratic politicians who oppose him.
The statewide teachers' union, a major financial backer of Democratic candidates, saw its rolls swell by about a thousand members this spring, when Scott and the Legislature were cutting school budgets and ramming through controversial teacher merit pay legislation.
The AFL-CIO labor organzation, which also typically supports Democrats, just held a festival in Orlando that drew about 6,000 people interested in grassroots organizing.
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There are SICK liberals (redundant) here.
In Broward where I live, 66% voted for alex sink.
boot dws:
http://www.karenforcongress.com
A whole THOUSAND?
Thats like a .3% increase, thats HUGE!!
Sun-Sentinel "reporters" agitating for the arrogant whiny pushy socialist crook baby killing degenerate perverted scumbag democrats and their flying monkeys at the ACLU.
Kathleen Haughney ought to get a real job at McDonalds, it probably pays more.
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