Republican lawmaker Doug Cox tricked legislature into exempting "Christian" forced-labor camps from regulation

I think what they’re saying is, they can’t do anything about the obvious problems because they were “duped” into legislation that now shields the perpetrators, as a result of assuming that the legislator providing the input that carved out this exemption was a knowledgable and unbiased advocate. Clearly that was their first problem, of many. Interesting that a gross violation of ethics rules that resulted in terrible legislation is greeted with what amounts to s shrugging of shoulders and no consequences for the one who profited from it. Seems like a really good incentive to violate ethics rules…

“We totally didn’t know about this conflict of interest, but now that we know, we’re absolutely not going to do anything about either the legislation or the legislator. We’ll continue to have this policy, if future legislators would like to not let us know about their conflicts of interest.”

Though I think “Christian Abortion Center” would make heads explode.

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