[Vision2020] We know whbere they're coming from...

[Ron Force]

By the way, Representative Troy's representative voted for the plate,
Representative Gosling, against.

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:26 PM Debi Robinson-Smith <debismith at moscow.com>
wrote:

> Yep. That's Ideehoe....
>
> Debi R-S
> On 3/19/2020 3:28 PM, Ron Force wrote:
>
> House, in 30-32 vote, kills 'Too Great for Hate' specialty license plate
> bill
>
>    - Posted by Betsy <https://www.idahopress.com/users/profile/brussell>
>    - Mar 19, 2020 Updated 43 min ago
>    -
>    -
>
>    In a stunning apparent last vote for the Idaho House this year, the
>    House has voted 30-32 on SB 1297, Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb's bill to create
>    a specialty license plate with the slogan "Too Great for Hate" to benefit
>    the Wassmuth Center's Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial. There was no
>    debate against the bill before the vote; after it, the House immediately
>    went at ease for a closed-door GOP caucus.
>
>    In his opening debate in favor of the bill, Rep. John McCrostie,
>    D-Boise, said, "The Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial sends a powerful
>    message across our state ... that Idaho is too great for hate." It serves
>    as a living classroom for Idaho schoolchildren, he noted. "It is the only
>    Anne Frank memorial in the United States." Located next to the Boise River
>    and the public library, the memorial is festooned with quotes from human
>    rights leaders around the world.
>    -
>
>    Everyone can visit the memorial and see themselves in the quotes, in
>    their wisdom and humanity," McCrostie said. "The funds ... from this
>    license plate will sustain and expand educational programs at the Idaho
>    Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial."
>
>    The House earlier passed legislation to cut off new specialty license
>    plates, but that exempts all those approved before July 1 that sell at
>    least a certain number each year. McCrostie said thousands of members of
>    the Wassmuth Center want to buy the plates, and "this plate is anticipated
>    to remain solidly over the threshold."
>
>    Earlier in the session, the House enthusiastically approved a new
>    "Choose Life" specialty license plate.
>
>    McCrostie recalled that as a child growing up in Mountain Home, he
>    remembered passing a sign on the freeway whenever his family drove to Boise
>    that said, "Idaho is too great for hate." "As a child, I didn't know the
>    history of the Aryan Nations, but I always remembered that slogan," he
>    said. "This is a positive message that is symbolic, it is inspirational,
>    and it is aspirational."
>    -
>
>    "The 'Too Great for Hate' license plate stands as a testament to the
>    Idaho that we love, serve, and that we've chosen for our homes."
>
>    Buckner-Webb is the Idaho Legislature's only African-American member.
>    As the House was voting down her bill, the Senate was paying tribute to her
>    other retiring senators for their service and accomplishments.
>
>    A comparison of the House votes for the "Choose Life" license plate,
>    which passed on a 55-12 party-line vote with three members absent, shows
>    all but one of those voting "no"  on the "Too Great for Hate" plate voted
>    "yes" on the "Choose Life" plate -- so it's not just about opposition to
>    all specialty license plates. The one member who was absent for the "Choose
>    Life" vote but voted "no" today was Rep. Randy Armstrong.
>    -
>
>    After the House GOP emerged from its closed-door caucus, no further
>    action was taken on SB 1297, such as a motion for reconsideration -- which
>    would have had to come from someone who voted on the prevailing side.
>    Instead, the bill was returned to the Senate, where Senate President
>    Pro-Tem Brent Hill received it and ordered it to be filed.
>    -
>
>
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
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