No no no....
She blinked and showed weakness at the hands of the leftist mobs and leftist lawyers....
She promised to stand up and during thre 11th hour she backed the hell down...
She should have signed the damned bill then pressured the state houses to send up a better bill for her to sign to supersede it.
She showed weakness and that is LAST thing you do when standing up to the LEFT!
Signed a bill that would require this amount of “big government” administrative intervention in schools? Sign the bill that would allow anyone who didn’t make a team and accuses a team member of using performance enhancing drugs to sue the person and the school? I am so glad we have a Governor who actually thinks about the implications of a bill before signing it.
From her letter:
For example, Section 2 of House Bill 1217 requires a student athlete to verify, each year, that the student “is not taking and has not taken, during the preceding twelve months, any performance enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids.”
Presumably, this requirement was included to address a student taking these drugs as a part of a gender transition, but House Bill 1217 is not limited in this way. Rather, if a male student athlete failed to make the football team, and later learned that another student on the team was taking steroids without disclosing it, the student who didn’t make the team would be entitled to sue both the school and the steroid-using student for damages.
In addition, Section 2 creates an unworkable administrative burden on schools, who under its terms must collect verification forms from every student athlete, every year, as to age, biological sex, and use of performance-enhancing drugs; and furthermore must monitor these disclosures throughout the year so that if “reasonable cause” is found of a false or misleading form, the school can take action to avoid civil liability.
You can read her whole letter here.
Perfectly put. We would have been behind her all the way.
And her excuse is miserable -- the NCAA needs to be sued seven ways to Sunday.