By Phillip Smith
A new political action group formed to protest Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) new drug testing policy for state employees is sending a jar full of urine to Tallahassee to save state officials the bother of traveling south to the Florida Keys.
Last month, Scott signed an executive order mandating random drug testing of state employees. The state legislature is also considering a bill that would require drug testing for welfare and food stamp recipients.
The newly formed Committee for the Positive Insistence on a Sane Society (PISS) said it was sending the urine sample to Scott to peacefully protest against his drug testing policy. It accused Scott of wasting tax dollars on unjustifiable intrusions into the privacy of state workers.
“In one breath our CEO professes to be focusing on cutting wasteful government spending and laying off tens of thousands of state employees, while at the same time he announces a program to drug test state employees without any legitimate basis for such an invasion of privacy,” wrote attorney Robert Clinton in a PISS press release.
The sample will be “kept under lock and seal” until it can be transported to Tallahassee. “In this way, the committee will save the Florida taxpayers from the expense of paying for individual drug testing in Key West,” according to the press release.
Florida Gov. Scott is not, of course, the only American politician calling for drug testing of various segments of the population. Bills calling for drug testing of welfare or unemployment recipients are active in a number of states this year. Perhaps other activists will emulate the example of PISS.
Artilcle From StoptheDrugWar.org — Creative Commons Licensing
