Supporting Those And The Agenda Who Support "Domestic Terrorists"?
Who Did You Say Were The Oklahoma Senators Who Voted To Keep The Oklahoma Public From Their Chance To Change The "Send Those Oklahoma Citizens To Prison Like The AR Want For Ten Years If They Allow Them Chickens To Fight" Law?
.........Aldridge, Branan, Brogdon, Cain, Coffee, Dunlap, Easley, Fair, Johnson, Laster, Leftwich, Milacek, Monson, Morgan, Myers, Nichols, Pruitt, Reynolds, Riley, Snyder, Taylor, Wilcoxson, Williams and Williamson.........
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HB 1784 was read for the third time at length.
On the question of passage of the bill, the vote resulted as follows:
Aye: Capps, Coates, Corn, Crutchfield, Fisher, Ford, Gumm, Harrison, Helton,
Hobson, Horner, Kerr, Laughlin, Lawler, Littlefield, Maddox, Price, Rabon, Robinson,
Rozell, Shurden, Smith and Wilkerson.--23.
Nay: Aldridge, Branan, Brogdon, Cain, Coffee, Dunlap, Easley, Fair, Johnson, Laster,
Leftwich, Milacek, Monson, Morgan, Myers, Nichols, Pruitt, Reynolds, Riley, Snyder,
Taylor, Wilcoxson, Williams and Williamson.--24.
Vacancy: District 7.--1.
The bill failed.
Pursuant to Rule 12-23, Senator Shurden served notice that the vote be reconsidered
whereby HB 1784 failed.
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/senate/senate_journals/sj2003/sj20030416.pdf
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A bill that would ease penalties
for violating Oklahoma’s law against cockfighting has failed by a narrow vote in
the state Senate.
The measure defeated Wednesday proposed a statewide election to reduce the
cockfighting penalties from a felony to a misdemeanor fine of up to $500 and/or
up to a year in the county jail.
Voters approved a law last year making cockfighting a felony, carrying a
penalty of up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $25,000.
Sen. Frank Shurden, D-Henryetta, said his bill was needed because the present
penalties for cockfighting are too severe. No matter how many times a person violates the cockfighting law, he said,
that person should never go to prison "unless they’re stealing chickens."
Opponents said passage of Shurden’s bill would be "a slap in the face of the
people" who voted in November to ban cockfighting and made any violation a
felony.
"I wouldn’t have brought any bill
if I thought anybody ought to spend one day in the state penitentiary for a
chicken crime," Shurden said.
