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Attack on Jessica's Law vote in House race amounts to demagoguery

I don't live in Austin's District 47 or know much about either Texas House candidate in the Southwest Travis County race; one-term Democratic Rep. Valinda Bolton wasn't on any of the committees I watch closely in 2007, and while I've had extensive dealings with former Rep. Terry Keel, who previously chaired the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee and is now Tom Craddick's parliamentarian, I don't know a thing about his sister-in-law who's running against Bolton.However, Donna Keel's cheapshotting Bolton over her vote against Jessica's Law, as reported by Kate Alexander in yesterday's Statesman, reveals either a profound ignorance of the issues by candidate Keel or the cynical mentality of a demagogue. This was a deeply flawed piece of legislation whose centerpiece - the death penalty for child molesters - was promptly deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).