The House dating violence measure, House Bill 8, has the support of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Tilley, a Hopkinsville Democrat, and has been voted out by his committee. But it has been sabotaged by Rep. Joe Fischer, a Republican from Fort Thomas who has filed two amendments to it aimed at radically restricting abortion.
This likely will kill the bill, which Rep. Fischer well knows, having engaged in similar guerrilla tactics in past years in a failed effort to advance his abortion bills.
But, like some of his Senate colleagues, Mr. Fischer doesn’t seem too concerned about lives of people threatened by dating violence.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Concealed guns v. dating violence?
Today's Courier-Journal calls out NKY's own Joe Fischer for sabotaging a bill which would protect people from dating violence:
