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| Koch Brothers |
The
new stealth campaign against three Florida Supreme Court justices is
being backed by those meddling right-wing billionaires from Wichita,
Charles and David Koch.
Last week they uncorked the first of a series of
commercials from their political action committee, Americans for
Prosperity. The targets are Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and
Peggy Quince. They were three of the five-vote majority that in 2010
knocked down a half-baked amendment slapped together by state lawmakers
seeking to nullify the federal Affordable Health Care Act.
The Florida
Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions in finding that the proposed
amendment contained “misleading and ambiguous language,” the hallmark of
practically everything produced by this Legislature.
On the November
ballot, Lewis, Pariente and Quince are up for merit retention, meaning
voters can choose to retain them or not. This simple system was put in
place to keep the state’s high court above the sleaze of political
races.
The mission of the Kochs, hiding as always behind their
super PAC, is to get the three justices dumped at the polls so that Gov.
Rick Scott can appoint replacements.
The last thing these guys want is
fair judges who know the law; they want partisan judges who’ll
obediently support their political agenda. It’s worse than just trying to buy an election. It’s trying to hijack Florida’s justice system at the highest levels.
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