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Did Alan Hays Attempt to Trade His NO Vote on Parent Trigger? | Scathing Purple Musings

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Did Alan Hays Attempt to Trade His NO Vote on Parent Trigger?

From Aaron Dislatte in the Orlando Sentinel:
TALLAHASSEE — As the clock ticked toward the end of the 2012 lawmaking session, Florida’s most influential business lobby was desperate for a win.
Its lobbyists thought they had a package deal. If the Senate could pass a bill cutting worker’s compensation payments to doctors who dispense medication, a controversial education-reform measure known as “parent trigger” would pass with it.
The linchpin: Sen. Alan Hays, a Umatilla Republican sponsoring the worker’s comp bill, which would have banned doctors who dispense repackaged medication to worker’s comp patients from