{"id":432,"date":"2007-12-14T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/loose-lips-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T17:15:51","slug":"loose-lips-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/loose-lips-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Loose Lips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They&#8217;re Back&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state legislature, adjourned since June, came back to life Dec. 5 and with the early filings for the next legislative session Jan. 8. Much of the prefiled legislation is pandering to the squeekiest wheel in what&#8217;s known as &#8220;special interests.&#8221; For example: <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ted Pitts (R-Lexington) has proposed (H-4329) a Second Amendment Weekend that calls for the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving to be an opportunity to by guns with no sales tax. <\/p>\n<p>S 3873 is  Jakie Knotts&#8217; (R-Lexington) bill to reduce the fees for hunting licenses for the military. <\/p>\n<p>The Big Kahuna of the legislature, Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), has a bill for English Only (S 857) when you are dealing with the state government.  <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Huggins (R-Lexington) has a bill to require picture voter IDs ( H 4352) , in spite of the fact that individual vote fraud is nill here. Why make it harder to vote when, already, fewer South Carolinians vote than citizens in 136 other nations?<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Carl Gullick (R-York) wants legislation (H-4381) that would allow people you owe money to to garnish your wages. <\/p>\n<p>We are clearly safer when these guys are on vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re Back&#8230; The state legislature, adjourned since June, came back to life Dec. 5 and with the early filings for the next legislative session Jan. 8. Much of the prefiled legislation is pandering to the squeekiest wheel in what&#8217;s known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/loose-lips-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loose-lips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}