News What Have They Done For You Lately?
posted by on March 4 at 14:53 PM
Back on the first day of the session in Olympia two months ago, I highlighted Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles’s (D-36, Seattle) bill to streamline the legal process for women to get protection from dangerous men.
The bill was nicknamed, appropriately enough, the Rebecca Griego Act. (Griego was murdered last year at the UW by her stalker ex-boyfriend after she had difficulty getting a protection order.)
With a little over a week left in the session, the bill passed the House unanimously today. Kohl-Welles passed it out of the Senate unanimously on February 12.
Next stop, after a perfunctory sign off in the Senate, the Governor’s desk.
Nicely done Sen. Kohl-Welles.
If a bill were ever named after me it would either be a ban on skateboards or something to stop you from eating the whole goddamn bag of chips.
Mine would be a bill to stop elenchos from eating a whole bag of chips while skateboarding, cause that endangers boarders like me who don't toss empty chip bags on the Burke-Gilman.
I thought Griego's problem was in getting the restraining order served to the son of a bitch, not in getting a restraining order, period.
That or the university not moving her office ...
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