Archive for April 6, 2011

Organum Non Grata

Florida State Rep. Scott Ran­dolph (D-​​Orlando) is frus­trated with the 18 bills reg­u­lat­ing abor­tion being con­sid­ered by the Florida State Leg­is­la­ture. He feels that the leg­isla­tive pri­or­i­ties are mis­placed when Florida’s econ­omy, like much of the nation’s, is in dis­ar­ray. Dur­ing a debate on a bill that would pro­hibit union dues being deducted from work­ers’ pay­checks, Ran­dolph (quot­ing his wife) sug­gested that she should “incor­po­rate her uterus” so that Repub­li­cans would leave it alone.

That raised the ire of the Repub­li­can House Speaker, Dean Can­non. Accord­ing to his spokes­woman, Kate Betta, the word “uterus” is no longer to be uttered (utered?) in the Florida Legislature:

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