I-DUH-HO State Rep. Bruce Skaug says the quiet part out loud in admitting tough-on-crime sanctions are retribution

I intended to post this the day after the last post but I got sidetracked. The only silver lining here is that we have another quote that proves the intent of passing such legislation is perpetuating punishment. 

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article285399932.html

Idaho bill to extend death penalty unconstitutional, aims for US Supreme Court review

BY KEVIN FIXLER

UPDATED FEBRUARY 13, 2024 4:30 PM

House Bill 515 is designed to challenge decades of U.S. Supreme Court precedent that limited death sentences to defendants who commit murder, said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Josh Tanner, R-Eagle. With the current supermajority of conservative-leaning justices on the nation’s highest court, the hope is that the U.S. Supreme Court will review the Idaho bill if it becomes law and issue a decision that expands the eligibility for the death penalty.

“There is a deep, dark, dark side in our culture, and it’s our job to protect the children,” Skaug said Tuesday on the House floor. “There are times when things are so wicked that retribution is appropriate.”

I-DUH-Ho State Rep. Josh Tanner wants the state to "be like FloriDUH"

Potato-Headed I-DUH-HO
State Rep. Josh Tanner

I-DUH-Ho State Rep. Josh Tanner actually stated he wants the state to "be like FloriDUH". On the State House floor. In public. 

Nobody should ever want their state to be like FloriDUH, but Idaho does look a little like FloriDUH, though they have a pot handle, not a panhandle. And Josh Tanner looks like the only thing people think of when they think of Idaho, with an IQ to match. 

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article285399932.html

Idaho bill to extend death penalty unconstitutional, aims for US Supreme Court review

BY KEVIN FIXLER

UPDATED FEBRUARY 13, 2024 4:30 PM

Sentencing a person to death for non-fatal sexual offenses against a child is “flatly unconstitutional” under existing interpretations of the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment, said Robert Dunham, a Philadelphia-based attorney with more than 30 years of experience studying the death penalty. Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are beginning to promulgate such bills in a direct call for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its past rulings, he said...

The Idaho bill mirrors a law that took effect in Florida last year, when the governor sought to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s prior precedent. The first defendant to face the prospect of the new law reached a plea deal in exchange for life in prison without the chance of parole.

“Idaho needs to be like Florida and lead out in this and go, ‘We’re here to protect these kids,’ ” (Idaho State Rep. Josh) Tanner said Tuesday from the House floor. “At some point in time, we have to be able to say, ‘No, enough is enough,’ with … the most severe ones.”

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:

I-DUH-ho State Rep. Chad Christensen reminds us that Coronavirus panic is not as important as Predator Panic

Spudville state rep Chad Christensen took time out of the COVID-19 panic to remind us he increased residence restrictions for registered persions. Well, the Shiitake Awards aren't impacted by Coronavirus shutdowns either, so I guess we're kind of even.

https://www.hjnews.com/preston/legislative-update-a-bad-year-for-the-free-market/article_c8180cb0-f8e1-536b-bf62-803309675d55.html

Legislative update: A bad year for the free market
By REP. CHAD CHRISTENSEN For the Citizen
3/25/20

HB 457a

"This is my sex offender bill. The current law states sex offenders cannot be within 500 feet of a school, my bill adds licensed daycares. It also fixed a problem in the current statute, which mistakenly had an exception to allow sex offenders living in facilities to loiter on school grounds. This bill is now on the Governor’s desk waiting to be signed."

Another famous victim comes out of nowhere begging for money. Is it wise to give money to someone admittedly struggling with a drug addiction?

Hey, folks, let's all just send a drug addict lots of money because she's a famous victim, surely nothing can go wrong, right?

And this lady will likely get the money, because she is a famous victim from a 13 year old case. People are blindly throwing her money, despite serving a stint in juvy for drug crimes, and is struggling with drug addiction. I'm not fond of tempting someone who has not recovered from drug addition a bunch of money.

http://www.cdapress.com/local_news/20180617/miracle_child_shasta_groene_to_abductori_want_him_to_hear_from_me_that_hes_nothing

SHASTA GROENE TO ABDUCTOR: 'I WANT HIM TO HEAR FROM ME THAT HE'S NOTHING'
June 17, 2018 at 5:00 am | By BRIAN WALKER Staff Writer

....Two years ago, Shasta started an online petition in support of locking up sex offenders for life after their first offense. It not only fizzled, but drew backlash, she said.

"People were messaging me saying, 'You got a second chance, so how come sex offenders can't have a second chance?'" she said....

Shasta spent most of her teen years in jail on drug-related charges before being placed in a two-year rehabilitation program in Salt Lake City. She received her high school diploma from the Juniper Hills boarding school in St. Anthony.

She said she contemplated suicide often and spent time at a psychiatric hospital.

"I had quite the rodeo as a teen," she said. "I definitely didn't have a childhood growing up. Before Duncan came into my life, I had a hard childhood because my parents and brothers had drug addictions."

Those unimaginable childhood challenges made routine social interactions almost impossible.

"Having gone through what I did, I had a hard time keeping friends who understood where I was coming from,” Shasta said. “I was a hard person to be with, and I had a lot of trust issues. I had gotten to the point thinking that maybe this was what life was supposed to be like."

She said life began to change at 18 after she was released from the correctional facility and had her first son.

"I had to stop being angry because that's what led to my drug addiction," she said. "When I started to make it a learning experience, things began to fall back in place. When I had my own place in Nampa, owned a car and I was working, everything just felt better.

"My kids helped sway me away from drugs and alcohol, but it's something I still face every day," she said. "There's always people from the past who I run into trying to sway you back into that. It takes time to overcome."