Out of the cookie jar
In FL, the senate passed a bill to prohibit lawmakers from taking money from the fund that covers the handgun carry permit program.
Via Newsalert.
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:09 am
The money collected was to be used to pay for the licensing, IIRC. So the lawmakers were already violating the law as written by making the funds fungible. This is another law they can violate at will, unless there is a criminal or monetary penalty the lawmakers will experience if the law is violated.
March 4th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Nice, with the amount of people getting FL permits, I look forward to my renewal fees going down!
Not that I’ll complain as the FL permit is a pretty good deal as far as permit fees go.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
The same liberals who were screaming against this law wanted one like it last year to save money put aside for environmental issues. I blogged about it here: http://www.gregandbeth.com/blog/index.php?action=view&id=2003
March 4th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Nope, I can’t find any civil or criminal penalty for dipping into the trust funds listed in the bills. Looks like another feelgood activity.
I have known state officials who asked before doing something inadvisable to the point of illegality, “What is the penalty if we go ahead and do this?”
When there is no penalty they went ahead and did it despite the law.