Posted on 06/23/2022 10:45:45 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Rick Scott, head of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, said Thursday he will vote against the bipartisan gun bill that has won the blessing of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, putting more distance between the two powerbrokers.
Mr. Scott, Florida Republican, said the good pats of the bill are outweighed by the bad, and he said the proposal is far different than the legislation he signed as Florida’s governor following the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
“These bills are not the same at all,” Mr. Scott said in a statement. “One was the product of a collaborative, well-defined and transparent process. The other was the result of secret backroom dealings that did not include input from the majority of Republican members, committee hearings, nor opportunities for amendments, giving members barely an hour to read the bill before we were asked to vote on it.”
“The bill the Senate is considering abandons Florida’s model and allows even the most radical policies, like California’s red flag law, to be implemented and supported with federal funding,” he said. “Ironclad due process protections are essential to protecting the constitutional rights of Americans and we can NEVER compromise on that.”
For his part, Mr. McConnell, who is the odds on favorite to become majority leader if the GOP flips the Senate in the midterms, praised the proposal.
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Saw a pic last night of him standing behind the turtle and he was all grins. Only need 14 to decide this is all 🐂💩.
If Murkowski comes out as a “No” you will know the fix is in.
McConnell would praise a Pile of excrement if he thought he had to.
I have news for him:
Fresh horse apples rolled in powdered sugar ARE NOT DONUT HOLES.
NY Times headline: "Rick Scott Wants School Shootings to Continue"
He knows he’s safe to vote No...there are enough RINO/traitor Yes votes. He can keep his powder dry...for the immigration vote.
It’s all just a shell game.
“Fresh horse apples rolled in powdered sugar ARE NOT DONUT HOLES.”
Now THAT’S an image!
“Mr. McConnell, who is the odds on favorite to become majority leader if the GOP flips the Senate”
That’s a huge problem.
Capitulation Gun Bill
Not no. Hell no!
Thousands of gun rules on the books, and they stop nothing.
Crimes Already Broken:
Brandishing
Shooting people
Killing people
Taking a gun to a gun free zone
What does making more laws accomplish other than to
punish law abiding citizens?
NOTHING!
You can say that again.
I wish they’d impeach him.
But it will pass with republican votes so it doesn’t matter how any individual republican votes. The party sux and needs to go!
Me too, what's up with that.
True that.
There is no such thing as a bipartisan gun bill.
You are either a communist, or you are not.
How the federal recreational drug control effort started in 1909 working out?
I think my Florida yard needs more work.
Maybe election day would be a good day for yard work.
I saw that too. Interesting.
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