Bobby Franklin’s Georgia Journal: Anything “Germane” - Unless You’re Trying To Save Life Of Unborn Babies
Anything is germane, unless you are trying to save the life of a prenatal human person. Let me explain. Previously I have written about HB 301, the dog fighting bill. Well last week a House committee considered the Senate’s version of felony dog fighting, SB 16. The senator who proposed SB 16 testified that he got interested in the whole dog fighting issue when a pit bull that was being trained for fighting had gotten loose and ate a small child in the senator’s neighborhood. In other words, he proposed SB 16 in an effort to save helpless, innocent human life.
So I made a motion to pass SB 16 by substitute with the new language for HB 1, my Georgia Life at Conception Act, since HB 1 is also designed to save helpless, innocent human life. The chairman ruled that my substitute was not germane to the original bill. So I did something unheard of; I appealed his ruling. Unfortunately, the vote was 4-7 and prenatal murder still goes unpunished here in Georgia.
Oh, by the way, the committee did substitute other language for SB 16. They made it a crime to steal certain non-living property. That substitute was found to be germane. Later in the meeting we took up a bill dealing with hit-and-run. A section of the bill dealt with the death of an unborn child. So I asked the chairman if my language punishing those who murder unborn children would be considered germane to this bill. He said “no.”
On a lighter note, the House voted 145-5 to allow licensed optometrists to issue special handicapped parking permits. Do you want a visually impaired person driving next to you?
DOGS, NON-LIVING property protected by law but OK to murder unborn by abortion.If you have ever driven in the metro Atlanta area you know that traffic is a mess. Well, just like the Temptations sang in Ball of Confusion, “Politicians say more taxes will solve everything”, the Republican leadership proposed SB 845, a 1% sales tax for the purpose of funding transportation projects. This isn’t just for new or improved roads. This proposal is also for the funding of public transit, rail, buses, sea ports and surrounding infrastructure. But an amendment that passed 150-19 would allow the Governor, by executive order, to use the “transportation” tax for purposes other than transportation. SB 845 is a constitutional amendment yet the ballot question markets the new tax by asking if the voter wants the tax to fund transportation. Does it surprise you that the question never lets the voter know that if the Governor so chooses that not a dime of the tax could go toward transportation? Republicans - gotta love’um - NOT!
The duty is ours…
the outcome is God’s