Idaho right-wing potatohead Rep. Chad Christensen goes on Facebook rant after his mandatory minuimum bill fails to pass

CHUD THE SPUD, IQ OF A POTATO

ADDENDUM: Chud's rant was turned into a news article. SEE: https://www.hjnews.com/preston/rep-chad-christensen-idaho-legislative-session-a-mix-of-triumph-disappointment/article_93118018-1b96-5319-877e-b2a328b44453.html

Spudville Representative CHUD Christensen failed miserably in his bid to unnecessarily expand mandatory minimums in the state of Idaho. His hopes were to increase the mandatory minimum for many offenses, including Failure to Register and simply being too close to a school:

I just had a constituent call me and he was very irate with me. A couple years ago, I got a bill passed to not allow convicted sex offenders near daycares. It is now law. Schools were already in the law.

This man has a convicted sex offender friend that moved in next to a daycare, now he has to move. He told me the man's conviction was in 1987 and he has been a good person since. I told him I was very glad the man had bettered himself and his life. I told him that I was sorry the man had to move, but I told him his friend is the exception not the norm. I told him most sex offenders do not change and this law is intended to protect our children. 

I asked him if he wanted me to endanger thousands of children by allowing sex offenders to be near or live near daycares because of his friend's situation. He didn't hear or care about that common sense reasoning and continued with his emotional rant. He said he couldn't believe I don't care about people. I confronted him on his manipulative statement. He rationalized his friend's crime by saying it was a teenage victim. That was not a good thing to say to me and he found that out. 

Well, my current bill to give convicted sex offenders 5 years mandatory prison time might not be very popular with some. I have a feeling it wouldn't be popular with this individual that called me.

UPDATE: This new bill does not include statutory rape. I do not wish to send an 20-year-old to prison for 5 years for having sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend. I don't wish to give that person a conviction of a sex crime or any time.

If you support House Bill 508, please email and/or call the House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee and tell them you are in support of it. 

House Bill 508 is my sex offender bill: 

-5-year mandatory minimum for convictions of aggravated sexual battery, sexual abuse of a child under the age of sixteen years, lewd conduct with a minor child under the age of sixteen years, sexual battery of a minor child sixteen or seventeen years of age, rape forcible penetration with a foreign object. 

-1 year minimum for failing to register as a sex offender.

- 90 days for being employed by a forbidden place of employment and for being too close to a school or daycare.

-It takes away the ability of the judge to retain jurisdiction (rider), suspend a sentence or commute a sentence.

Sure, I've seen worse mandatory minimum bills than this, but CHUD has a hard on for this issue, as evidenced by the uneducated statement above. CHUD believes the fake news that everyone on the registry is at high risk to reoffend. 

Chud the Spud's bill thankfully failed failed to pass, and CHUD is throwing a hissy fit on Facebook about it:

"So, we are in an extended afternoon floor session. During a floor recess a Judiciary and Rules Committee, Representative Kerby came up to me and said my sex offender mandatory minimum bill isn't going to do very well, today. Therefore, he wanted me to agree with him to adjourn the committee before my bill was heard. I said, "No, the committee can kill it themselves."

I then said, "Well, you can do with it as you wish, since it is now the committee's bill." 

He wants to protect Republicans who would vote against it."

I love watching him melt down in real time

"*HOW MY SEX OFFENDER BILL WAS KILLED*

Sure enough, Representative Gary Marshall made a motion to adjourn the House Judiciary and Rules Committee so he and others would get to avoid voting on my sex offender mandatory minimum bill. 

I am confident they would have voted no, and they didn't want to be on record not being tough on sex offenders. 

The committee voted to adjourn, and my bill will not get a public hearing because it was the last day for House bills.

Representative Nate and Young didn't vote to adjourn, and I thought I heard another across the room. I will find out who it was.

I have no respect for this. You either vote to kill my bill and tear it apart or vote for it. This was an exhibition of cowardice. 

The Idaho Freedom Foundation did not approve of my bill and I was willing to take a hit on my score. Some people think I vote with IFF to get a good score with them. Wrong. We align well, but not always. The one thing government should be doing is protecting rights, especially the rights of helpless sexually abused children. However, Representatives Gary Marshall and Ryan Kerby don't think so, along with others. 

It is quite frustrating when ya work so hard on a bill."

CHUD strikes out

Mandatory minimums are a bad idea unless you have the IQ of a potato. 

By the way, for those who don't keep up with moern Internet parlance, a Chud is "A unattractive person whose defining characteristic of their personality is their egotism" or to put more bluntly, "Anyone who has no good qualities at all: Assholes, morons, idiots, jerks, preppy pieces-of-shit, meatheads, etc."

State Senator Chud Christensen is all of these and more since he is not only a Trumptard, he wanted to join the Karen Convoy: