Using a page out of the Tony Kovaleski ambush interview playbook, Jesse Watters from Fox News recently caught up with House Speaker Mark Ferrandino to ask him why he sent Jessica’s Law — which sets harsh mandatory minimum sentences for child rapists — to a kill committee, depriving the bill of a floor vote.
Mister Ferrandino, apparently not used to answering tough questions about his leadership decisions, hemmed and hawed through the encounter, refusing to provide a clear rationale for why the bill was sent to a committee to die a slow death, rather than see a debate and vote on the House floor.
Watters provided a few examples of where Jessica’s Law would have punished perverts with harsher sentences, but Ferrandino refused to engage:
“You actually don’t have strong laws,” Watters shot back. “Let me give you a few examples. 800 times a guy just sexually assaulted a seventh grader and just got one year of work release. Okay, another guy molested 10 kids at a daycare center and only got two years in prison. Are you okay with those sentences?”
We promised our loyal readers video yesterday of the encounter, so let’s roll the tape:
(*Also note our good friend, Michael Brown, appears in the segment to help provide some insight into why Speaker Ferrandino and House Democrats are protecting pedophiles)
How can anyone approve what this man is doing?
Ferrandino is a big pile of bovine feces. He is afraid of making some one in the gay lobby that thinks that all behaviors are OK mad. I think that is the root of his opposition to Jessica's Law. It is a shame how far our state has fallen to have elected enough morons to have this guy as our speaker of the house.
Lynn, you are correct about Amend 64. The voters passed that. The problem is that outsiders don't understand it. When they hear about they nuts in the legislature, they try to associate the two topics together because they don't understand.
As a journalist, that should be an assignment for you 🙂
Hate to say it turn about is fair play….ProgressNow et al has done worse.
I feel for him. Had it done to me before. It hurts, but part of the job, huh?
who takes seriously anonymous blogs, conservative or liberal? Who are these weenies who don't have the courage of a byline?
This is unreal, calling Ferrandino "a big marijuana legalizer." The voters passed that law.
This time, O'Reilly pronounced Ferrandino's name right. '
This guy is a tool….he only had one agenda when he ran for election. What happened to Colorado?
The man is terrible. Watch how fast he tries to pass same-sex marriage. Us Coloradans need to vote the dems out of the state house because they're not applying laws for the people of this state.
Colorado IS the new California…
Progressives make my stomach churn.