As I wrote last week, such a conclusion is, well, a crock.
"This bill is common sense," I wrote. "But democrat Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe refused to allow the bill to leave her committee, first saying that it was bad policy; then attempting to blame the sponsor of the bill because he wasn't there at the beginning of the executive session; because he passed out copies of newspaper articles while a witness was testifying on another bill... and so on.... and so on."
Well, McAuliffe's best effrorts to kill this bill were not good enough. Yesterday, Sen. Benton successfully amended a teacher-certification bill, having threatened to run the amendment on every education bill to come to the floor of the Senate.
This issue was never about Sen. Benton doing his job. It was a blatant effort by a teacher-union lackey to kill a needed bill at their behest. Fortunately, she was outgunned by a Senator who knows what he's doing... and who, in the parlance, "Got 'er done."
Literally.
Sen. Don Benton of Vancouver revives his bill to increase the penalty for teachers who view pornography on school grounds
Friday, March 11, 2005
BRIAN TURNER
OLYMPIA -- A week after state Sen. Don Benton saw his anti-pornography legislation shot down, the lawmaker from Vancouver won a fight to bring it back to life.
The state Senate on Thursday unanimously approved Benton's bill to increase the penalty for teachers caught viewing pornography on school grounds.
"Persistence does pay off," Benton, a Republican, said after the vote. "In the end, I was determined to pass this concept into law; I was ready to debate this issue day in and day out."
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