In case you missed it somehow, I’ve been working to try and stop the passage of Kyleigh’s Law. Well, all of my efforts have come for naught. And not just for naught – it was a disastrous fail.
The General Assembly passed the bill unanimously.
This was an awful bill. It had noble intentions, but the policy proposals would barely do anything to help make teens safer on the road – and worse, it would likely make teens a target for the likes of fine-happy cops, people looking to cause an accident for insurance reasons, and maybe would-be thieves, rapists, and murderers.
So of course the General Assembly passed the bill with everyone voting for it. Way to be absolutely worthless NJ Government.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions– is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?
A question:
I know this was passed unanimously, but didn’t some legislators abstain from voting? That was the impreesion I got from the Star-Ledger article yesterday.
Where might one find a list of roll calls in the state legislature?
In any case, I too am very unhappy with this law, and in particular with my own legislators for voting for such a stupid bill. I appreciate your anti-Kyleigh’s Law activism, even if was ultimately unsuccessful.
Chris
Chris,
The vote total was 78-0-1. The NJ Legislative website has the roll call vote info (it wasn’t available when I wrote the post).
Normally the General Assembly has 80 members. I’m not sure why this total is short a member (maybe he or he was missing or the seat is current vacant?). Anyhow, everyone voted for it except Upendra Chivukula.
Thanks for the support, I’m going to be doing one last post in an hour or two with my thoughts on how we can still oppose Kyleigh’s Law, check it out and let me know what you think.
Waterman,
That link actually informs me that information will follow, but thanks for letting me know who the abstention was (not one of my assemblymen, as I suspected). As for the missing vote, I believe that was probably Assemblyman Doug Fisher, who just left the Assembly to become Corzine’s new Secretary of Agriculture. There’s no replacement yet, to the best of my knowledge.
And yeah, I think I’ll check that out right now.
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