Cuckoo Cuckoo Award!

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This week’s Cuckoo Cuckoo award goes to a legislator from Florida (Where else, the state is filled with Cuckoo birds.) for proposing to throw out the state constitution.

Kill the constitution? A rewrite is Florida’s latest nutty idea | Commentary

Orlando Sentinel

By Scott Maxwell 

July 19, 2023

Florida politicians hatch so many harebrained ideas that it’s sometimes hard to keep track. Seriously, this state cultivates quackery the way Idaho does potatoes.

So you may have missed the latest head-shaker to come out of the Florida Legislature — a proposal to do away with Florida’s current constitution.

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This, my friends, is serious. State Rep. Spencer Roach — the same GOP House member who helped hatch the government plan to take over Disney World — recently said he was launching a crusade to scrap the current state constitution and replace it with a new one.

Because who needs things like due process and freedom of speech? Clunky and outdated ideals like that can get in the way of an authoritarian agenda.

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Now you’re starting to understand why some Florida politicians want to rewrite the state constitution. Judges won’t be able to rule their political schemes unconstitutional if the schemers are the ones who write the constitution in the first place. How brilliant.

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Plus, Roach seems determined, telling Florida Politics: “Yes, it will be controversial, but we have a supermajority, and we need to act now.”

Yet another sign of a well-thought-out and legally defensible plan — when you need to rush it through before anyone has a chance to object. Just the kind of conscientious motivations anyone would want guiding a constitutional revision.

And so this week’s Cuckoo Cuckoo Award goes to State Rep. Spencer Roach and he joints the list of growing cuckoo, cuckoo legislators.

Runner Up

This couldn’t claim anyone owner so it couldn’t be in the top spot. The Attorney General of Florida is going to argue that the people shouldn’t have a chance to vote to legalize pot.

Florida Supreme Court Gives Attorney General More Time To Argue Why Marijuana Legalization Should Be Blocked From 2024 Ballot

Marijuana Moment

By Kyle Jaeger

July 25, 2023

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday granted the state attorney general’s request for more time to file a brief arguing why voters should not get a chance to decide on a marijuana legalization initiative on the 2024 ballot.

Nope we can’t trust those voters to make the right decision (According to what the conservatives believe.) so we don’t want to hear what they think.

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Past winners are:

• Minn. Lawmaker with History of Making False, Anti-LGBTQ+ Claims Is Now Blaming Global Warming on Pride Month, Minnesota state Sen. Eric Lucero
• GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn Floats Conspiracy Theory On Titanic Sub And Hunter Biden, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
• Politician accuses aquarium of ‘making fake gay penguins to brainwash children’, Family First Party, Australia
• Republican Worried Drag Queens Will Launch Missiles, U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MN)

Let me know who your nominees are for the week!