Best of the Blogs: Facts and Views

Progress Florida Education Center's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-27-12
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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Shows One Group Was Right -- the Welfare Recipients
By Trish Ponder
Pensito Review
What do you do when the facts don't support your actions, which were based on extremist rhetoric and false notions?

ALEC leader admits last week's announcement was a PR stunt
By Campaign Staff
ColorOfChange.org
Last week, ALEC acknowledged that it was reeling after its corporate sponsors -- some of which pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for membership in the right-wing group -- started dropping like flies.

The Stupidity Equation: The Rick Scott UF-USF Disaster
By Benjamin J. Kirby
The Spencerian
Maybe now we can stop pretending Florida Governor Rick Scott is anything but a back-stabbing grifter who only cares about making his rich friends richer.

Half The Lawmakers On Florida 'Stand Your Ground' Task Force Are ALEC Members, All Supported Stand Your Ground
By Adam Peck
Think Progress
Yesterday, Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) unveiled the members of his task force assigned to investigate the effects of the state's "Stand Your Ground" laws that have come under intense scrutiny and criticism in recent weeks after the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.

Standardized test security questioned
By Valerie Strauss
The Answer Sheet
Tenth-graders in Florida took the state's standardized test in reading on a staggered schedule because there weren't enough computers available for them all to take it at the same time, raising concerns that security of test questions could be compromised, the Miami Herald reported.