{"id":1490,"date":"2005-04-21T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/21\/more-on-the-asshole-sc-committee-that-doenst-care-much-about-domestic-violence-victims\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T01:48:19","slug":"more-on-the-asshole-sc-committee-that-doenst-care-much-about-domestic-violence-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"More on the bastard SC Committee that doesn't care much about domestic violence victims."},"content":{"rendered":"

Now this ought to piss some of you off, especially the ladies. This was on Trish Wilson’s take<\/a> on this issue and the attitudes of certain South Carolinian politicians who JOKED<\/a> about women being abused.<\/p>\n

But the amendments never got introduced. Instead, advocates said, committee members joked about the title of the bill and then tabled it with little discussion.<\/p>\n

According to a tape of the meeting obtained by The State newspaper, Altman asked why the bill’s title … “Protect Our Women in Every Relationship (POWER)’? … just mentioned protecting women. Harrison suggested making the bill the “Protecting Our People in Every Relationship’? Act, or “POPER.’?<\/p>\n

A voice on the tape can be heard pronouncing it “Pop her.’? Another voice then says, “Pop her again,’? followed by laughter.<\/p>\n

Cobb-Hunter and victims advocates didn’t think it was funny.<\/p>\n

“And they wonder why we rank in the bottom on women in office and we lead in women getting killed by men,’? she said.<\/p>\n

Harrison said critics were “overreacting’? and the comments weren’t intended to diminish the gravity of domestic violence. “If you take it that way, you’re overly sensitive,’? he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fuck Harrison and Altman. Hard to believe that some of these beating-up-women-is-funny-and-if-you-think-otherwise-then-you’re-being-sensitive-politicians are married. Those poor women. Please tell me, somebody, that not all men of South Carolina are like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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