By now the Stacey Campfield story about his bill to give death certificates to aborted babies has been more than well reported. It has also been the subject of some of the most hostile attacks, both against the bill and against Stacey personally, that I’ve ever seen. I’ve already had my postal moment about it so I won’t repeat myself here.

The key to the whole thing is this: I fully expect that a representative is going to go to the legislature and put up bills that are important to the voters of their district. That’s what Campfield did by offering up this bill — it represents the citizens in Knox who are pro-life. Nothing shocking about it as far as I’m concerned.

So you can imagine my surprise as I’m looking through the legislation offered up by my representative, Jim Hackworth (D), which included a bill for, well… limiting llama liability lawsuits:

HB1857: Limits tort liability for certain activities involving llamas and animals in the llama family. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 20, Part 1.

I don’t know if the law bothers me as a whole, or just the creepy sounding “certain activities involving llamas” part.

Attack Stacey Campfield all you want, but at least his bill has some meaning and substance to it and he’s not wasting his time creating laws for the sake of creating laws. As for Jim Hackworth, I’ll be addressing his legislation further in a post over on the blog side later on.

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