Tuesday, April 26, 2005
SIGNS OF EVOLUTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA?
According to the STATE newspaper, “A criminal domestic violence bill that appeared dead early last week in the S.C. House will start today on an expected fast track to passage.”
And Representative John Graham Altman will be one of the revised bill’s co-sponsors.
The revised version of the bill provides stiffer penalties in some instances than the rejected version of the bill. And Altman’s support of the bill lead longtime victim’s advocate Laura Hudson, to state, “John Graham Altman is the best thing that has ever happened to us. I guess there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.”
Did Mr. Altman have a change of heart or was he telling the truth when he said he just wanted a better piece of legislation? Given his past history, we suspect that it is the latter rather than the former. Maybe someone owes him an apology.
According to the STATE newspaper, “A criminal domestic violence bill that appeared dead early last week in the S.C. House will start today on an expected fast track to passage.”
And Representative John Graham Altman will be one of the revised bill’s co-sponsors.
The revised version of the bill provides stiffer penalties in some instances than the rejected version of the bill. And Altman’s support of the bill lead longtime victim’s advocate Laura Hudson, to state, “John Graham Altman is the best thing that has ever happened to us. I guess there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.”
Did Mr. Altman have a change of heart or was he telling the truth when he said he just wanted a better piece of legislation? Given his past history, we suspect that it is the latter rather than the former. Maybe someone owes him an apology.
