1/09/2005
Rush job
The St. Pete Times' Steve Bousquet has an outstanding piece on how the state chiropractic school bill got rushed past the Legislature with no debate. Dem. Sen. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Republican Sen. Ron Klein barely manage to ask a few uncomfortable and never-answered procedural questions. (The Times Web site posts audio of the nondebate.)
The third 'graph says it all:
The third 'graph says it all:
Largely because of the influence of the chiropractors' lobby and lawmakers with FSU connections, the school got $9-million a year in public money with virtually no public scrutiny or debate.




