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Rule 23 at the Utah Legislature: Nothing and no one is innocent.
Rep. Jackie Biskupski seethed after The House Rules Committee punted a measure that would prohibit employers from discriminating against gays and lesbians. The low-profile but powerful committee pulled the bill from the Judiciary Committee and tossed it into the Business and Labor Committee, where conservative members will quietly slip an icepick into the bill's ear.
"The motivation is to send it there to kill it," said Biskupski, one of the House's two open lesbians.
Meanwhile, Christine Johnson, the bill's sponsor and the other lesbian, simply shrugged: "I think that members of the Judiciary Committee and members of the Business and Labor Committee have an equal ability to" debate the bill, she said. "Both committees have the ability to let it out and have a healthy floor debate."
It's only her second year, but Johnson, right, has learned when to pick a fight.
Rep. Jackie Biskupski seethed after The House Rules Committee punted a measure that would prohibit employers from discriminating against gays and lesbians. The low-profile but powerful committee pulled the bill from the Judiciary Committee and tossed it into the Business and Labor Committee, where conservative members will quietly slip an icepick into the bill's ear.
"The motivation is to send it there to kill it," said Biskupski, one of the House's two open lesbians.
Meanwhile, Christine Johnson, the bill's sponsor and the other lesbian, simply shrugged: "I think that members of the Judiciary Committee and members of the Business and Labor Committee have an equal ability to" debate the bill, she said. "Both committees have the ability to let it out and have a healthy floor debate."
It's only her second year, but Johnson, right, has learned when to pick a fight.
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