Jolt
Afternoon Jolt: Take that, TSA!
Clearly, Olympia created a lot of victims today. The losing end of Gov. Chris Gregoire's budget ledger: poor people, old people, sick people, children, and students.
Olympia will be damned, however, to stand by and let Washingtonians become victims of the federal government—namely, of grope-happy TSA guys.
Afternoon Jolt is giving today's winner to a couple of prefiled bills on this year's legislative docket.
Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-23, Kitsap County) has prefiled a bill telling the Obama administration to cut that shit out pronto—or, rather, "respectfully resolv[ing] that the Transportation Security Administration immediately terminate its use of the new pat down search procedures ... and resume conducting pat down searches in accordance with the procedures that were in place prior thereto."
The bill addresses the naked-imaging and the junk-grabbing, stating both are "offensive and humiliating to every individual upon whom they are imposed and, indeed, particularly egregious in their application to women, children, and disabled members of our society."
Appleton even went so far as to file a second bill aimed specifically at the full-body scans, which she contends expose the public to radiation and therefore "may present real risks to Washington citizens."
Olympia will be damned, however, to stand by and let Washingtonians become victims of the federal government—namely, of grope-happy TSA guys.
Afternoon Jolt is giving today's winner to a couple of prefiled bills on this year's legislative docket.
Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-23, Kitsap County) has prefiled a bill telling the Obama administration to cut that shit out pronto—or, rather, "respectfully resolv[ing] that the Transportation Security Administration immediately terminate its use of the new pat down search procedures ... and resume conducting pat down searches in accordance with the procedures that were in place prior thereto."
The bill addresses the naked-imaging and the junk-grabbing, stating both are "offensive and humiliating to every individual upon whom they are imposed and, indeed, particularly egregious in their application to women, children, and disabled members of our society."
Appleton even went so far as to file a second bill aimed specifically at the full-body scans, which she contends expose the public to radiation and therefore "may present real risks to Washington citizens."
