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Of the least-insured metropolitan areas in the United States, seven of the top ten fall in states where the Governor has refused to accept the expansion of the Medicaid program offered up under Obamacare. Texas Gov.

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Florida has officially restarted it’s controversial purge of registered voters less than 6 weeks before election day. Governor Scott’s intention to resume the effort, detailed in a PowerPoint presentation, was first reported by ThinkProgress

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has been touting his state’s dropping unemployment rate, which is down to 8.8 percent from a high of 11.1 percent in December 2010

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In the name of election integrity, Florida governor Rick Scott (R) has aggressively pursued voter purges , restricted voter registration drives and reduced early voting hours.

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The state of Florida reached a partial settlement with a coalition of civil rights groups who sued alleging that Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) failed voter purge discriminated against minority voters

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Local election supervisors were informed this week that Florida plans to restart its controversial voter purge prior to the November 6 election. In a detailed PowerPoint presentation obtained by ThinkProgress, Governor Rick Scott’s Department of State lays out the plan. The initial purge effort, conducted in May, informed hundreds of fully eligible U.S

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John Lewis being beaten by state troopers, March 7, 1965 Catalist, a company that provides voting list data to progressive organizations, is among the closest observers of changes to voting rolls around the country.

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Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) plans to reject the Medicaid expansion A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that southern states would see the most dramatic reduction in their uninsured populations because of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. The study found that all states would benefit from the expansion, but southern states — many run by conservative governors who have pledged to opt out of the measure — would see their adult uninsured populations drop by about 50 percent.

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Last week, a federal judge permanently blocked Florida from enforcing a law that banned doctors from discussing gun ownership with their patients. The law, the Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act , signed last year by Gov.

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Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) Federal Judge Robert Hinkle rejected the Justice Department’s request for a temporary order suspending Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) effort to purge tens of thousands of names from his state’s voter roles

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