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Termyn8or -> RE: What Would You Have Me do II (5/31/2016 6:41:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Termy, Id have you do something about this.
EXCLUSIVE: Catholic Church spent $2M on major N.Y. lobbying firms to block child-sex law reform
Timothy Cardinal Dolan heads the state's Catholic Conference, which in recent years hired major lobby firms to block legislation designed to help child abuse victims seek justice.
ALBANY — Not leaving it to divine chance, the state Catholic Conference has turned in recent years to some of Albany’s most well-connected and influential lobby firms to help block a bill that would make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice.
The Catholic Conference, headed by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, has used Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, Patricia Lynch & Associates, Hank Sheinkopf, and Mark Behan Communications to lobby against the Child Victims Act as well as for or against other measures.
All told, the conference spent more than $2.1 million on lobbying from 2007 through the end of 2015, state records show. That does not include the conference’s own internal lobbying team.
Filings show the lobbyists were retained, in part, to work on issues associated with “statute of limitations” and “timelines for commencing certain civil actions related to sex offenses.” Other issues included parochial school funding and investment tax credits.
Cardinal Dolan ripped for stalling to talk child sex abuse
“They are willing to spend limitless money in order to basically keep bad guys from being accountable for their actions,” said Melanie Blow, chief operations officer of the Stop Abuse Campaign. “I think they’re doing it because they don’t want to have to pay out settlements.”
Melanie Blow, chief operations officer of the Stop Abuse Campaign, says the Catholic Conference is paying lobby firms because they want to avoid settlements for lawsuits.
Added Kathryn Robb, an advocate and survivor who says she was abused by her brother as a 9-year-old: “If they need to spend that much money on lobbying, clearly, then, they have some pretty big secrets to hide.”
While a far cry from the millions in lobbying top special interests spend in Albany each year, advocates for child sex abuse survivors say the $2.1 million spent likely represents a worthwhile investment to the Catholic Conference if it can continue to block legislation that would eliminate the statute of limitations on child sex abuse civil cases and open a one-year window to bring lawsuits for victims who can no longer sue under current law.
The Catholic Conference has argued that opening a one-year window to revive old cases could ultimately bankrupt the Church.
The firms the Catholic Conference chose is also telling.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/catholic-church-hired-lobby-firms-block-n-y-kid-rape-laws-article-1.2655010
Yeah, there's religion, true fucking faith :
"The Catholic Conference has argued that opening a one-year window to revive old cases could ultimately bankrupt the Church."
They should be burnt at the stake. I could maybe handle that. Any adult having any sexual contact with prepubescent is the death penalty. There is no hush money, offering hush money is the death penalty if it is a capital crime, which it would be.
I know there are two similar threads here, this is the one where I am dictator right ? You would have more personal freedom than ever, but there are laws. Ya gotta have some laws. Shit just doesn't work without laws.
And I would have public executions. And real investigations, not like they do these days. And cops would not get a paid vacation for shooting people. Zero lobby money, we execute you for that just like in China. Pretty fucking bad when we aren't up to the standards of China.
Want more ? Equalization of the media, requiring talk time for ordinary Citizens. And banks can never ever charge the customer for an overdraft for more than the amount of the overdraft. I have seen people have to pay $400 for a fucking $4 overdraft, which they could have simply refused to remit. But they make more money this way.
And no more fake money, derivatives and all that shit. I'll tax that shit right out of business. But go ahead and burn all the coal you need, fuck you Obama with the hardon for the coal industry. Bunch of shit, you don''t give a fuck about the environment any more than I do. Just trying to look good.
And cancel every one of those goddamn free trade deals, period. Your incoming shit is taxed, and taxed HARD. Hard to the point you might consider putting your plant here to build the shit. YOu want access to MY market, you fucking pay for it.
I really could go on but then we get TLDR. But under my rule you can do whatever you want unless it hurts someone else. Companies are a different story. We would still have health regulations for restaurants, we would have extremely heavy regulation on banks and public utilities and a few others. Anything above a certain scale of operations and anything that can even remotely be called a monopoly.
T^T
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