Adam Weinberg
Goldwater Republican
Hey everybody.
My postings have been very few and far between in recent months, and that's because I took a political/government job and really had no stomach for any of it off the clock.
I'm coming to the end of the job in these next two weeks. I ran a State Representative's office in the North Carolina House for the summer legislative session. My boss leads the Republican Caucus for the House and the Senate.
Our session came to a close this past Friday and so I'm just readying the office for whomever may come in the office after me, and then it'll be onto one more political type job.
But while we were here (in Raleigh at the moment) we passed a couple of good pieces of legislation. Here are the two most notable bills:
1. A bill to reformat drivers licenses for drivers under 21.
Many of you probably are familiar with this law, since it exists in 21 other states. We didn't have it yet, so our office worked it through and we've gotten a lot of favorable media coverage from it.
2. A bill to lower the age of consent for blood donation from 17 to 16
This little change, which is endorsed by the Red Cross, will put about 15,000 more pints into the blood supply in North Carolina every year. Not to mention, it will encourage more people to become life-long blood donors by having the opportunity to donate earlier.
Despite our best efforts, we were not successful in getting through the Democratic House leadership an Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would have allowed criminal penalties to have applied for the death of an unborn child if a murderer knowingly killed a pregnant woman.
We worked hard to try to bridge the gap and not make it an issue of pro-life and pro-choice. We even added a gestation period to the bill, which made several Pro-Life groups flip out on my very reliably Pro-Life boss.
You know, 36 states and the Federal Government have partial or full legal protections for the unborn under these circumstances. Even Dershowitz has said that it's civil libertarian friendly legislation and doesn't challenge Roe v. Wade. Alas, the leadership stopped what would have otherwise been a bill that would have sailed easily into the lawbooks.
And those three bills, along with some measures to reform our State Health Plan (which is on a crash course right now) and get sales tax refunds for public schools, have mainly been my focus of late.
...What's up with everyone else?
My postings have been very few and far between in recent months, and that's because I took a political/government job and really had no stomach for any of it off the clock.
I'm coming to the end of the job in these next two weeks. I ran a State Representative's office in the North Carolina House for the summer legislative session. My boss leads the Republican Caucus for the House and the Senate.
Our session came to a close this past Friday and so I'm just readying the office for whomever may come in the office after me, and then it'll be onto one more political type job.
But while we were here (in Raleigh at the moment) we passed a couple of good pieces of legislation. Here are the two most notable bills:
1. A bill to reformat drivers licenses for drivers under 21.
Many of you probably are familiar with this law, since it exists in 21 other states. We didn't have it yet, so our office worked it through and we've gotten a lot of favorable media coverage from it.
2. A bill to lower the age of consent for blood donation from 17 to 16
This little change, which is endorsed by the Red Cross, will put about 15,000 more pints into the blood supply in North Carolina every year. Not to mention, it will encourage more people to become life-long blood donors by having the opportunity to donate earlier.
Despite our best efforts, we were not successful in getting through the Democratic House leadership an Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would have allowed criminal penalties to have applied for the death of an unborn child if a murderer knowingly killed a pregnant woman.
We worked hard to try to bridge the gap and not make it an issue of pro-life and pro-choice. We even added a gestation period to the bill, which made several Pro-Life groups flip out on my very reliably Pro-Life boss.
You know, 36 states and the Federal Government have partial or full legal protections for the unborn under these circumstances. Even Dershowitz has said that it's civil libertarian friendly legislation and doesn't challenge Roe v. Wade. Alas, the leadership stopped what would have otherwise been a bill that would have sailed easily into the lawbooks.
And those three bills, along with some measures to reform our State Health Plan (which is on a crash course right now) and get sales tax refunds for public schools, have mainly been my focus of late.
...What's up with everyone else?
