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Jackson clarion ledger in mississippi ran an interview with mississippi's republican governor, phil bryant. they asked him what his big ideas were for the state of 2014. and he said his big priority for mississippi, for 2014, for this new year is, drug testing for welfare recipients. it's constitutionally dead in the place that started it. everyone else that has taken it on thinks it's a failure and a boondoggle. but still, this stuff still keeps spreading. because if there's one thing the right actually is good at, it's spreading bad ideas nationwide. joining us now is the national director o...

They asked him what his big ideas were for the state of 2014. and he said his big priority for mississippi, for 2014, for this new year is, drug testing for welfare recipients. it's constitutionally dead in the place that started it. everyone else that has taken it on thinks it's a failure and a boondoggle. but still, this stuff still keeps spreading. because if there's one thing the right actually is good at, it's spreading bad ideas nationwide. joining us now is the national director of the aclu of florida, eric simon. thank you for your time. i know that you're involved in this case that ul...

0 in the context of the state where we piloted this experience, just seven years ago, in massachusetts. but when you do compare them, when you compare the test drive to now owning the car, what's happening federally looks like it really does mirror the launch of that ultimately successful state-level program that nobody likes to call romney care. and this, of course, is good news if you want health reform to work. the number of people signing up and the rate at which that line graph is asceascending, that's news if you want health reform to work. it's terrible news if you want health reform to...

0 first ran for florida governor in 2010. after he signed it into law in 2011, the koch brothers connected florida group helped champion and defend this policy as well worth the money. that law ultimately led the state of florida to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars proving that, as it turns out, welfare recipients appear to use drugs at roughly one-fourth the rate of the general population. florida's drug test to the poor bill was initially proposed as a way that the state would save tons of money, but it ended up being a boondoggle, a hugely expensive way to discover almost no illegal d...

0 hundreds of thousands of dollars proving that, as it turns out, welfare recipients appear to use drugs at roughly one-fourth the rate of the general population. florida's drug test to the poor bill was initially proposed as a way that the state would save tons of money, but it ended up being a boondoggle, a hugely expensive way to discover almost no illegal drug use. and a series of court rulings has now found it to be wildly unconstitutional. a few months after the program was first implemented, a federal court ruling blocked it, and the court ruling, the judge of the court ruling went out ...