Florida: State Investigates Campaign to Provide Superhero Capes to Jobless People
April 19th, 2011

Via: Orlando Sentinel:

State labor officials asked their inspector general Monday to investigate why a Central Florida agency wants to spend public money to furnish the unemployed with capes.

Dubbed the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge,” a $73,000 public-relations campaign by Workforce Central Florida features a cartoon character named “Dr. Evil Unemployment” and includes handing out about 6,000 red superhero capes to jobless Central Floridians.

The campaign, revealed Saturday in a report in the Orlando Sentinel, was met with derision by many unemployed who questioned spending more than $14,200 on capes and $2,300 on foam cutouts of “Dr. Evil Unemployment.” They said the campaign’s tone risked minimizing the severity of the region’s labor problems.

Glad I left that state! Former Gov. Crist is a pagan idolater, and hypocrite in more ways than one. Orlando is the voodoo capital of the US, last I heard (behind Queens or Brooklyn, NY) and Miami is a bastion of sin.

Though Florida has been good to me in many ways, I have grown up and moved on up from there. No money for jobs anyways.