At the legislative forum this morning, Greta Goodwin said the Senate DID pass the stalking bill, with an amendment that includes mandatory training for all law enforcement and prosecutors. She claims that lawyers and others who looked at it thought the small word changes would not have much of an affect unless the legal community understood the purpose.
Because it was changed, the House has to OK it, which she thinks will happen quickly when the session reconvenes next week.
From a purely political perspective, this could be a masterstroke on Goodwin's part. She can now claim that she took the bill Kasha initiated and make it meaningful, thereby getting some credit for it.
In the end, though, the politics don't matter if it helps prevent violence as a result of stalking.
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shame on Greta. you don't play politics with womens lives.
He didn't say Greta WAS using this as part of a political agenda, he said she COULD do that.
If anyone has been using it, it's Kasha, who tried to say that Greta was holding it up because she (Kasha) was the one pushing it through.
nanny nanny boo boo
What is this, grade-school?
Who is using this for political agenda and why? Who cares and who gives legs to such nonsense?
Does the bill not have value or is this all just a game of playing gotcha?
It's not politics, it is stupidity.
The traveler is the entity responsible for playing politics and making something out of this. It is a bill that I've been following that has received a lot of bipartisan support. It is not a political issue on its own until someone like a reporter makes it one. The changes that are coming are good for women and bad for stalkers and that is the sum of it. Ask anyone in law enforcement. This isn't one of those things where someone deserves some sort of special credit. Anyone behind getting this into law should be thanked for doing their jobs and doing the right thing. We should all be thankful that it finally passed.
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