OK, so let’s just say that you’re a terrible person who has spent the better part of your career attempting to be even more terrible. Then, let’s say that you are Florida’s attorney general and your name is Pam Bondi. Are we still talking? Good. Let’s also say that you spent years fighting the Affordable Care Act, that little thing that has revolutionized health care, and – barring the expansion of Medicaid in Florida, something you have not supported – made a whole lot of lives a little bit easier. How could you be more terrible?
You don’t pay your own bigotry bill.
This weekend, the Tampa Bay Times reported that Bondi, she of the perpetual pageant face, doesn’t think she or the state should have to pony up for the massive expenditures incurred by an ill-fought battle against marriage equality, one that was ultimately lost in both the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta and, as we all know, the U.S. Supreme court in June. Somewhat hilariously, even Gov. Rick Scott, he of the perpetual Voldemort face, agreed recently to pay $700,000 for his exercise in litigious futility involving the release of public records from his secret accounts. This administration is a car full of clowns, apparently.
The ACLU responded with requisite teeth, the Times reports:
“It really is the height of hypocrisy to argue we shouldn’t be entitled to fees when they put us through this,” said attorney Stephen Rosenthal who, along with the ACLU of Florida, represented a group of Miami plaintiffs in the case.
“They knew full well that if they lost, that they and, frankly taxpayers, would be on the hook for paying for their unwise legal defense of an unconstitutional law,” he said.
