Thursday, January 11th, 2007...5:17 am
Finally, a Way to Keep Tommy Chong Out of the Legislature
So, I was going to look up a bill number that I was going to write about (I’ll get to it later), and instead I ran across this title:
SB 1066: legislative candidates; drug test
(This bill number suggests that maybe our solons are not worried about Mexican “invaders,” but are out to stop the Norman ones.)
You read this right, this bill would mandate drug tests for legislative candidates. You ever heard anyone tell you that you would have to be high to want to run for legislature? Well…
The bill’s prime sponsors are Senators Jack Harper, Linda Gray and Representative Russell Pearce. Other sponsors are Senators Ron Gould, Karen Johnson, Jim Waring and Representative Ray Barnes.
In case of a gubernatorial veto of this crucial bit of legislation, the sponsors have also signed on to SCR 1005, which would be a constitutional amendment mandating a drug test that would avoid the governor’s desk and go to the voters.
Way back in the 80’s during our first wave of drug test fever, Senator Fritz Hollings’s opponent demanded that Hollings take a drug test. This happened during a debate, so Hollings turned to him and said, “I’ll take a drug test if he takes an IQ test.”
In that spirit, let’s expand this idea: maybe we can mandate that candidates take the AIMS test, maybe the new citizenship test?
3 Comments
January 11th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Make them take the AIMS test!! Many of my fellow teachers have been wanting them to do that for years!!
January 11th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I cannot wait for the day that someone runs as an avowed bud smoker.
These Mormon rightwingers wanting litmus tests? Wow. I wonder if Joseph Smith would have passed his?
January 11th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
I highly doubt that the Normans are any threat whatsoever unless of course they have bows.
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