Posted on 02/20/2007 12:26:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
PHOENIX - It's still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.
The House on Thursday rejected a Democratic amendment that would have banned splash guards with "images that are obscene or hateful."
The amendment's sponsor, Rep. Ed Ableser of Tempe, said he'd seen a splash guard that used the word "pickaninny" a derogatory term for black children and said his proposal was intended "to make sure those individuals that have hateful motives don't express or push those images upon others in our communities."
Rep. Theresa Ulmer, D-Yuma, supported the amendment and said it fit with lawmakers' other efforts to crack down on pornography and sexual predators.
"I personally am tired of explaining to my 11-year-old son why they (women) are depicted on mud flaps, but not all women are 36Ds. He's very confused by that," Ulmer said. "But seriously, this is about family values what are we going to send out as a message to our children."
No law on 'hateful' Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, opposed the amendment, saying it probably violated First Amendment protections for free speech and that "hateful" isn't defined by law.
Democratic Rep. Ben Miranda of Phoenix voted for the amendment but said he did so only because he felt compelled to do so because a vote against it could be misconstrued.
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Now you've done it: this poor woman is now going to have to explain to her confused 11 year old son that not all western cowboys are crazed rabbit-hating gunslingers.
You obviously did not grow up down south!
I heard it used mostly by the older black folks in the neighborhoods I grew up in.
I drive over 60,000 miles throughout the Southeast every year, and I have never seen a p-word flap.
BTW, my wife posed for the image of the woman.
Have you stopped beating your wife?
I guess we can infer that Miss Ulmer suffers from 36D envy?
Hey girl, you can buy them things these days!
Where can i get some mud flaps that say pickaninny?
I'll put them on my pick up truck with the confederate battle flag on the rear window.
An Arizona Governor in the 80's used the term at a press conference. It was the beginning of the end for him.
I lived in the rural south for 8 years.
Then you wife has some 'splainin to do to poor confused 11 year old boys.
I'm betting the guy saw Peterbilt mud flaps.
You just dont get it do you? That boy is "confused". DO we do nothing? Have you no decency, sir?
The "pro-choicers" lose one. For now.
The guy is lying. Like some trucker is going to have that on his truck when he knows it will likely be unattended in unsafe areas.
I never heard the term. I drove long haul trucks a couple winters, before college, and never once saw this on a mudflap.
It probably said Picatinny....
Need to keep a certain minimum number around for breeding, otherwise there is no point to having printed the cookbook.
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