It's time to bring the award back, and while previous winner John Kavanagh is the early favorite to win it again, I expect that there will be many contenders for it.
The award will be based on bill proposals, votes, and statements made during the legislative session. If the criteria were more expansive than that, almost the entire GOP caucus would be up for the award.
If simply being craven and/or corrupt was enough, all of the GOP caucus (as well as some of the Dems) would be eligible but this will be reserved for the nuttiest of the nuts.
Having said that, Rep. Kavanagh is still carrying the water for the bigoted grifter over at the Center for Arizona Policy. He also wants to censor police body camera footage.
Lastly, he already wants to greatly expand the the definition of what constitutes illegal residential picketing.
It's early, and I'm sure he will provide other examples for his eligibility for the award, but for these things alone, he's the early frontrunner for the award.
2 comments:
So let me get this straight. It's 3 in the morning and an elderly couple hear someone rummaging around downstairs in their living room. It turns out to be a burglar. They called the police who arrive and catch the burglar. The police are wearing body cameras and filming everything. The body camera video films the couple in their night clothes and in a disheveled condition. So you believe that their neighbor should be able to make a public records request, get a copy of that video, put it on the internet and embarrass the elderly couple. Really!
Currently, the law requires the redaction of domestic violence victims on body camera video,so why not everyone who is not involved in criminal activity and is in a place where they have an expectation of privacy?
Shouldn't their be limits on government invasion on privacy? Suppose that elderly couple were your parents?
The phrasing of the proposal is so broad that video footage of police officers would have to be redacted under it.
Bottom line: LEOs, like legislators, work for all of us, and their actions are ALWAYS subject to examination and evaluation by all of us.
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