Bluestem looked at Steve Drazkowski's war on poor people's urine in Draz's ALEC-inspired drug testing for welfare recipients may cost more than it's worth and Draz haz a sad about Star Tribune analysis of costly ALEC-inspired drug tests for welfare.
But we covet Charles P. Pierce's prose in This Week In The Laboratories Of Democracy as he writes about the Draz:
Meanwhile, up north in Minnesota, the same issue is confounding people even more than it has in Florida. It also seems that the otherwise sensible legislature there has surrendered in one case to government-by-feed-store-gossip. . . ..
. . .Rep. Steve Drazkowski, the Republican who sponsored the legislation, said he was motivated by reports that people in his hometown of Mazeppa (population 842) were using state welfare benefits to buy drugs. "The question is, ‘What is happening to our dollars?' " Drazkowski asked. "Are the dollars going into someone's veins? Or to the kids? Drug testing addresses that."
The "reports" must be a hoot. Somebody's uncle sent around a chain e-mail for the holidays about something he heard about somebody's in-law's maid. To hell with Colorado. If we've lost Mazeppa, we've lost the war.
Photo: Signage in Mazeppa, Minnesota.
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