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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Here's an analysis of the debacle from the Idaho Statesman:<br><br><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/04/29/3776313_analysis-perfect-legislative-storm.html?rh=1" target="_blank">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/04/29/3776313_analysis-perfect-legislative-storm.html?rh=1</a><br><br>The discerning reader won't see any support for killing the bill from Gov. Otter.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: sunilramalingam@hotmail.com<br>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:40:37 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter calls special session on child support bill<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">What are you blathering about now? Of course I know the Legislature killed the bill. The special session is to pass it. Can you even read?<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter calls special session on child support bill<br>From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:51:18 -0700<br>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>To: sunilramalingam@hotmail.com<br><br><div>Courtesy of <i>KTVB</i> on April 10, 2015 at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/10/child-support-collection-idaho/25609377/" target="_blank">http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/10/child-support-collection-idaho/25609377/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An Idaho House panel voted 9-8 on Friday to kill legislation to bring the state into compliance with federal child-support collection rules after some lawmakers said they were concerned about Sharia law influencing Idaho's enforcement authority.</span></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>'Nuff said.</div><div><br></div><div>I really didn't feel it necessary to expend this much time and effort to explain simple fact . . . to a lawyer.<br><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Apr 29, 2015, at 19:37, Sunil <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div>
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<div dir="ltr">Tom,<br><br>I think he was working on a way to pass the bill and counting votes before calling the session, just as I said on April 17. So I think they'll pass the bill with some minor changes that allow the people who messed up the first time to save face. I really don't understand your question; I suppose the children and parents (not all are mothers, though most are) to whom support is owed will be in a better position.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter calls special session on child support bill<br>From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:48:54 -0700<br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a><br><br><div>Not yet, Mr. Ramalingam. Not yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Who (or what) do you suppose will come out ahead as a result of the vote on SB1067?</div><div><br></div><div>The children and mothers who have fallen victim to deadbeat dads . . . or Idaho's schizoid paranoia of Sharia Law?<br><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Apr 29, 2015, at 17:16, Sunil <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div>
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<div dir="ltr">We have seen, I guess.<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:13:59 -0700<br>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Otter calls special session on child support bill<br><br><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of <i>KTVB</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/29/child-support-special-session/26575851/" target="_blank">http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/29/child-support-special-session/26575851/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="ecxasset-headline" style="padding:20px 0px 0px 70px;line-height:34px;font-size:32px;font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">Otter calls special session on child support bill</h1></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE -- Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter called the first special session in nine years Wednesday, bringing lawmakers back to the Statehouse to take up the failed Senate Bill 1067.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bill, which would have put Idaho in compliance with federal child support law, was defeated 9-8 on the final day of the legislative session. The death of the bill put Idaho at risk of losing $46 million in federal funding by June 12.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Otter said he waited to announce the special session because he wanted to be confident the bill would have a different outcome when legislators took it up a second time.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;">More: </span><a href="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/28/otter-child-support/26513147/" title="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/28/otter-child-support/26513147/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Otter to hold press conference on child support bill</a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After 18 days of discussion with lawmakers and officials from Health and Welfare and the federal government, Otter said, he was "cautiously comfortable" legislators would vote to advance the bill, bringing Idaho back into compliance with federal law.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There is no alternative," he said. "We've discussed executive orders. We've discussed every other opportunity, or every other possibility. A special session, or a successful special session is the only way that we can hold people personally responsible."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;">More: </span><a href="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/13/luker-child-support/25735255/" title="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/13/luker-child-support/25735255/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Boise lawmaker defends vote on child support bill</a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Senators and representatives will reconvene May 18 at 8 a.m., and Otter said he is hopeful the session will last "hours, not days." The special session is expected to cost between $35,000 and $45,000 - not including the lawmakers' pay.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The governor said there will be differences between SB 1067 and the new bill brought before lawmakers in May, but declined to specify what changes would be made. He said he does not want to dwell on the past and declined to lay blame on the nine lawmakers who voted to table the bill.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"People that pursue these issues are sincere," he said. "They feel that they know what they know, and they're going to act on that knowledge. I could never criticize a person for what their belief is."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;">More: </span><a href="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/13/single-mother-child-support-bill/25742985/" title="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/04/13/single-mother-child-support-bill/25742985/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Single parents upset by child support bill vote</a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But lawmakers need to remember that they are representing the people of their district - many of whom rely on child support payments, he said.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Without access to federal databases and enforcement tools, Idaho would only be able to collect child support payments from those who were voluntarily paying to support their progeny, Otter said. Those who were unwilling to pay or moved away would likely be beyond the state's grasp.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's the deadbeat parent that we're after here, and it's our responsibility to make them responsible, to hold them responsible," he said.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);font-weight:700;">More: </span><a href="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2015/04/15/head-start-idaho-funding/25848023/" title="http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2015/04/15/head-start-idaho-funding/25848023/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Child support bill threatens Head Start program</a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Otter said legislators will not be allowed to discuss or vote on any other issue besides the child support bill.It has been nine years since the last legislative special session.</span></div><div><div id="ecxmodule-position-OE1Qmq4DdZw" class="ecxstory-asset ecxembed-asset"><div class="embed" style="max-width:560px;padding:20px 0px 0px 60px;"><div id="ecxcil-root-stream-699b715ed0" class="ecxcil-root" style=""></div></div></div></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stay tuned, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================
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