SC Senate votes to override Gov. Haley’s veto of rape crisis center funding. Bright, Bryant vote no
If you’d like to contact the two assholes who voted to hurt rape victims, here is their contact information, taken from the senate website:
Senator Lee Bright
Business Phone (803) 212-6108
Home Phone (864) 576-6742
Business Phone (864) 587-1800
Send message to Senator Bright
Senator Kevin L. Bryant
veto of SC Coalition of Domestic Violence $453,680. Special interests made their way into the DHEC budget. This is not about the merit of their fights but the back door way of getting the money. It’s wrong and another loophole for legislators and special interests to use.
If there are people in this state that need assistance, it’s the victims of rape and sexual assault. It’s money well spent. ~Senator Knotts
You need to spend a little less time on Facebook, and a little more time being a stateswoman.” – Senator Lourie
“Governor Haley had the audacity to call victims a special interest group. I am embarassed.” Senator Joel Lourie
How do you go about getting a recall process created?
Joel Lourie kicking Nikki Haley’s ass
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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physioprof
July 18, 2012 at 6:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Kudos to you, Ashley, for your outreach efforts to publicize this and encourage the override.
One question: Do I understand correctly that all of the deranged right-wing fuckeuppe legislators voted to override the veto except for the two assholes you highlight above?
Ashley F. Miller
July 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Some abstained, but yes, everyone except these two voted to override or abstained.
DigitalAtheist
July 18, 2012 at 8:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Anyone in the House and Senate with any political savvy at all, who didn’t want to override the veto abstained. These two yutzes have no ambitions, or think that this will never be political fodder for their opponents.
Heh… I got to watch Senator Lourie tell Nikki to put down the FB and start worrying about managing the state.
F
July 19, 2012 at 2:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Looks like the worst one’s being able to play their cards may have been for the best here, because it seems they are having their asses handed to them and the right vote was made. There may be a bit of argument from consequences there, but these people are who they are, and were in office. And I’m not arguing that there should be people like this. Um, in office.