[Vision2020] Charge Women with First Degree Murder But Allow Parents to Kill Living Children?!

[Ron Force]

Were these priorities discussed during the campaign? Or did I just miss
them?

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Glad to know this anti-science, anti-public education, anti-child
> “retired” Air Force officer and “retired” Moscow police officer has *zero*
> respect for the Constitution and wants to relegate women to forced breeder
> status.  Hmmm – where have I heard that before around here?  And, he’ll
> carry four bills this session but *not a one* has to do with closing the
> loophole that shields from prosecution parents who neglect their children
> to death and causes untold suffering on actual living breathing already
> born children.
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> Stupid is as stupid does, and we’ve got a real wingnut here hell bent &
> determined to do everything in his power to make sure Idaho wins the race
> to the bottom.
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> Saundra Lund
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> Moscow, ID
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> Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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> ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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> http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/
> article125859554.html
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> Idaho lawmaker would charge women who have abortions with murder
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> By William L. Spence
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> Lewiston Tribune
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> When Moscow Sen. Dan Foreman ran for office last year, he insisted he
> wouldn’t play it safe in Boise, become best buddies with the lobbyists or
> turn into a full-time politician.
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> The 63-year-old retired Air Force officer and retired Moscow police
> officer said his only concern would be “doing the right thing.”
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> “I don’t care what people think of me,” he said Tuesday. “I’m here (in the
> Legislature) to do what I think is best for the people.”
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> Foreman’s views about what’s best will be on full display when he begins
> introducing legislation in the coming weeks. The freshman Republican, who
> defeated three-term Sen. Dan Schmidt in November, *said he’ll carry four
> bills this session.*
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> *The “most controversial” measure, he said, would classify abortion as
> first-degree murder — for the mother, as well as the doctor who performs
> the operation — except in cases where the mother’s life is endangered.*
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> “I don’t want to tell a woman what to do with her body, and neither should
> the government,” Foreman said. “But using that same logic, how can a woman
> tell her unborn child it has to die? Who represents the child?”
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> A Coeur d’Alene-based grassroots group, Abolish Abortion Idaho, is
> circulating a ballot initiative that would charge mothers and abortion
> doctors with murder, except in cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s
> health is in danger. However, Foreman said he isn’t carrying any of his
> bills at the behest of another organization.
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> “I’m tired of babies dying,” he said. “It’s time to start the fight, and
> I’ll be the point man. I’ve been through two wars and have 11 years as a
> cop. I’m not thin-skinned.”
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> Other states have previously sought to charge abortion physicians with
> murder, but Foreman thinks this would be the first effort — at least since
> the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling — to charge the mother as well.
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> “It would be groundbreaking,” he said. “I believe my position is supported
> by the Idaho Constitution and U.S. Constitution. In fact, I believe it’s
> mandated. Roe v Wade was wrong.”
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> His other bills all focus on tax relief.
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> One would reduce the state sales tax from 6 percent to 5 percent. *The
> second would provide an income tax deduction of up to $8,000 for parents
> who send their children to private schools. *The third deals with
> “foregone” property taxes.
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> Counties can increase property tax collections by a maximum of 3 percent
> per year, not including new construction. In years where they don’t collect
> the full 3 percent, those “foregone” taxes are banked and can be used in
> future years. Foreman’s bill would allow counties to bank that taxing
> authority for a maximum of one year.
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> Dan Chadwick, executive director of the Idaho Association of Counties,
> said counties typically don’t go back more than three or four years to
> capture any foregone taxes.
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> “Counties don’t tax just to tax,” he said. “The idea of foregone taxes is
> that they can put it into ‘savings’ in case they need it later. If they’re
> limited to (going back) one year, the incentive would be for them to tax at
> the maximum level every year, even if they don’t need it.”
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> Foreman’s sales tax bill would reduce Idaho’s general fund revenues by
> $200 million to $250 million per year. Depending on how it’s written, it
> could also cut the amount of sales tax revenue that’s returned to local
> jurisdictions through revenue sharing.
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> “I think the mood in the state is right for a sales tax cut,” he said.
> “We’re starting to grow government faster than the economy. If we really
> want to stimulate the economy, let’s leave the spending choices up to the
> men and women on the street.”
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> A $250 million reduction in general fund collections would eliminate
> virtually all of the budget enhancements in Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s
> fiscal 2018 budget recommendation, including the $101 million increase in
> public school funding.
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> *Citing the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s proposed budget, Foreman said
> there’s room for a $200 million tax cut without harming education or
> transportation funding*. However, the foundation’s budget eliminates the
> entire career ladder teacher pay plan, substituting a 3 percent
> across-the-board pay increase, and cuts several other education initiatives.
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> In his State of the State address Monday, Otter noted state tax
> collections have been cut by a combined $1 billion over the course of his
> three terms in office.
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> “But I also understand the costs of failing to invest prudently and
> sustainably in our future,” he continued. “So I will not entertain anything
> that undermines our commitment to meeting essential government functions.
> At the top of that list are our investments in improving education and
> career readiness.”
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> Senate Minority Leader Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, said freshmen
> legislators “often come in thinking they have a mandate for their personal
> agendas.”
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> Separating personal views from what constituents want “is something we all
> struggle with,” she said. “We also have to remember that we create laws for
> the entire state, not just our region.”
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> *Spence may be contacted at bspence at lmtribune.com <bspence at lmtribune.com>
> or (208) 791-9168 <(208)%20791-9168>.*
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> *Read more here:
> http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article125859554.html#storylink=cpy
> <http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article125859554.html#storylink=cpy>*
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