Posted on 06/18/2003 3:46:24 PM PDT by hsmomx3
(Phoenix-AP) -- A House committee today rejected a Senate-passed bill to protect people serving on state commissions from being pressured through facing threats to their day jobs.
The bill was a reaction to an attempt by an aide to Governor Napolitano to get a state board to consider Napolitano's proposal to rename Squaw Peak in Phoenix after Lori Piestewa, an Arizona soldier killed in Iraq.
The gubernatorial aide had called the chairman's boss at the chairman's day job.
The Senate-passed bill would make it a lower-tier felony to attempt to influence the vote of an appointed member of a state board or commission member through inducements or threats offered or made in contact with the member's employer, business partner or client.
The ban also would have applied to legislators and local elected officials.
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