Debbie Riddle Hates The Free Flow Of Information

Whether Debbie Riddle actually hates the free flow of information, journalists, American flags and apple pie remains to be seen. But, she is the one responsible for killing the Shield Law yesterday.

The Chron notes it was a comma used in place of a semi-colon in the bill analysis that brought about the bill’s untimely and totally bullshit demise on a technical point of order. Karen Brooks has some interesting commentary on this, and we’ll offer some more.

First of all, this point of order was brought by the author of HB 8, the so-called, “Jessica’s Law,” bill. You may recall that Riddle couldn’t even manage to lay the bill out on the floor in a reasonably competent fashion earlier in the session. Her performance was so shoddy that her own party had to swoop in and save her bacon so the bill wasn’t relegated to the legislative ashcan.

Second, rumors are circulating that Riddle called the point of order in retaliation against Ellis over the “innocence commission” kerfluffle, as Ellis was the author of the Senate version of the Shield Law, which is what the House was considering (Riddle is on the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee). If that is true, then it is both beyond belief and beyond commentary.

It’s getting tougher by the minute to determine who is in the running for “Worst Performance By A Legislator” this session, but Debbie Riddle, Jodie Laubenberg, and a few others are running neck-and-neck for that (dis?) honor right now.

I can only hope that every mainstream media journalist covering the Lege puts Riddle on their “blacklist” and igonores her press releases, refuses to quote her, and boycots her press conferences. She deserves it.

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