Just when you think the RepubliCON Party of Florida couldn’t stoop any lower….they’ve gotten even slimier in the Florida House Race that I am qualified and appear as the independent candidate on the ballot.
THEY ARE ATTACKING DWIGHT DUDLEY FOR SERVING AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER!
I DON’T ALWAYS LIKE THE PEOPLE PUBLIC DEFENDERS REPRESENT, BUT IT IS THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT THEY SERVE!
Don’t let the GOP steal this race and continue their dirty tricks!
Yes Matt, Frank Farkas is a Bad, Bad Man. Farkas pushed through a vote on his own bill without allowing public testimony, legislation to allow health insurance companies to exclude mandatory coverage, 26 medical procedures including mammograms, treatments for HIV-related diseases and cleft palate, according to the St. Petersburg Times.
Angry crowd lashes lawmaker over lack of public testimony
St. Petersburg Times, published February 8, 2002
https://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/08/news_pf/State/Angry_crowd_lashes_la.shtml
TALLAHASSEE — A crowd of angry consumers hoping to testify against a health insurance bill exploded in anger Thursday when the panel’s chairman, Rep. Frank Farkas of St. Petersburg, pushed through a vote on his own bill without allowing public testimony.
The only testimony was from an insurance industry lobbyist who favors the bill.
“I hope you can sleep,” Arthur Green, a Broward County lawyer, shouted at Farkas after the meeting of the House Health Regulation Committee. “It was absolutely outrageous. I needed to express that.”
Green drove more than 400 miles from his Coral Springs home to testify against the bill. He and many other witnesses who went unheard are parents of children born with a cleft palate, a condition requiring many expensive medical operations. Green was one of about a dozen people who charged out of their seats and screamed at Farkas as the hearing ended.
“All of these are very important to somebody,” said Missy Turra, a Jacksonville lawyer whose child has a cleft palate. “For most people, if the insurance doesn’t cover it, the kid doesn’t get the surgery.”
Under intense criticism, Rep. Frank Farkas broadens his plan to help uninsured employees.
Petersburg Times, published March 19, 2002
https://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/19/news_pf/State/Seeking_a_health_insu.shtml
From the Times story: Opponents showed up again last week in St. Petersburg outside Farkas’ legislative office holding signs, including a doctored photo of Farkas with cleft palate, and chanting “Shame on Farkas.”
“It’s already hard enough to fight insurance companies,” said Brooke Cooley, 9, who says her family constantly battles for coverage for surgeries for her cleft lip and palate. “That guy just doesn’t believe it.”
“You can have a policy that doesn’t cover you if you get cancer, doesn’t cover you if you have a baby, doesn’t cover you if you adopt a baby, doesn’t cover you if you get diabetes, doesn’t cover you if you have a nervous breakdown, … doesn’t cover you if you are in a car accident and you have hospital bills over $10,000,” said House Minority Leader Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach, during a recent debate.