"Advocates" is the correct wording, just confusing. The "bill" that the
"advocates" are backing is the MI bill that tells the Feds to back off,
not the bill mentioned immediately before. I had to read that twice
also to figure out what they were referring to. A simple wording fix
would be "Among the advocates of the MI bill were ..."
Luther KB5QHU Forest Park, IL
'98 ML320 "Max" (162,xxx mi)
On 3/19/2013 11:16 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
My former county sheriff is one of those leading the charge:
In Michigan, for example, the Senate unanimously passed a measure saying
the state wouldn't comply with a provision of the National Defense
Authorization Act that critics say could allow American citizens to be
held indefinitely without trial on suspicion of terrorism. Among the
advocates of the bill were the ACLU and local tea- party groups.
(uh, Gerry, did the authors mean to say "opponents" instead of
"advocates"?)
"We're telling the United States government, 'We will not cooperate with
you,' " says Sen. Rick Jones, a lead sponsor of the bill who is a former
sheriff with three decades in law enforcement. "As a state, we're
asserting the 10th Amendment" that supports states' rights.
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