On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Elizabeth Masoner <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, they really are trying to pass this garbage. > > http://photography.about.com/b/2011/02/25/bill-introduced-in-florida-senate > -would-make-farm-photography-a-felony.htm
Are "they" trying to do this, or is this just one guy? In Canada we have government bills and private member bills. Private member bills are tabled by an individual legislator, the other legislators don't have to vote along party lines (in other words it's a "free vote") and if the bill doesn't pass, that's the end of it. No repercussions to the government (ie: the party in power). Some 90% of private member bills don't pass because they're usually unimportant pieces of crap that only concern a few squeaky wheels in the sponsoring member's constituency. Why am I meandering on about all this? Because it's my guess that unless things are wildly different in Florida, this bill will never be passed and will die a quiet death on the floor of the legislature. OTOH, it ~is~ Florida, home of Anita Bryant and hanging chads, the place where Gee Dubya won the presidency, so who knows? Seriously, my guess is that we need not get our shorts in a knot over this. Even if it passes, it's doubtful it will survive it's first constitutional challenge in the courts. I'll sleep easy tonight... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
