Well, it's over — mercifully.
The 2011 regular Florida legislative session went into overtime this weekend, but it's definitely now history, and not a moment too soon for anybody who describes themselves as a progressive/liberal/Democrat or possibly just an independent voter, all of whom must feel just a bit alienated to live in a state that as recently as 2 1/2 years ago voted for Barack Obama for president.
Florida voters presumably supported Republicans in larger number than Democrats last fall because they (naively?) believed Rick Scott's mantra that he and his fellow Republicans would have Floridians "Get back to work." But the means by which they tried to accomplish that seemed incongruous to those voter sentiments over the past two months.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
