‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ helps kill Idaho bounty hunter bill
COURTESY ANDY BATT
Duane “Dog” Chapman in an undated photo.
BOISE, Idaho » The reality TV star and former Hawaii resident known as “Dog the Bounty Hunter” says he helped kill an Idaho measure to regulate bounty hunters because it would have prevented them from wearing badges.
Duane Chapman tells the Post Register that the bill also would have prevented bounty hunters licensed in other states from pursuing bail jumpers in Idaho, unless they have an Idaho license to carry a concealed weapon.
Chapman is not allowed to own a firearm because of a 1976 first-degree murder conviction.
In Idaho’s recently completed legislative session, the bill cleared the House but not the Senate after Chapman lobbied against it.
Republican Rep. Richard Wills of Glenns Ferry confirms Chapman got involved and says he’s disappointed somebody from out of state could dictate what happens with an Idaho bill.
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His reputation for catching dangerous criminals-criminals as dangerous as he is or was-is greatly exaggerated.
He went after bail-jumpers! He never looked at “The Most Wanted” list!
Idaho Mormons, again. We used to do our Air Guard Summer Camps at “Jimmy Stewart” Field, at Boise. Where fornication between unmarried adults of the same sex is illegal.
TITLE 18
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 66
SEX CRIMES
18-6603. Fornication. Any unmarried person who shall have sexual intercourse with an unmarried person of the opposite sex shall be deemed guilty of fornication, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300 or by imprisonment for not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that the sentence imposed or any part thereof may be suspended with or without probation in the discretion of the court.
History:
[18-6603, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 966.]
No big deal…because same sex fornication is ok.
As an utterly clueless elected bureaucrat, Republican Rep. Richard Wills of Glenns Ferry needs trained and experienced people like Dog Chapman to take him aside, teach him what he does not know, keep him from making typical clueless bureaucrat mistakes.
Elected bureaucrats need to quit bloviating over their own personal problems. They would do well to remember the words of Edward R. Murrow, our greatest American broadcast journalist ever, “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”
Sad to say an elected bureaucrat will never, ever, admit they do not know what they are doing. What is right to do. Way to go Dog!!!!!
Yeah, that’s just what our “clueless elected bureaucrats” need is more LOBBYISTS to tell them what to do.
Amen – Why do elected govt people that they are the only ones that know about everyone’s work. (demi-Gods)
I’m amazed that he’s allowed to be a bounty hunter.