Tuesday, April 11, 2006

MadDog Changed the World!!!!

Ok, in Alabama they have a law that says that when a person is arrested on a drug charge and they get a lot of cash, cars ect... the law enforcement agency that did the raid gets to keep the cash/cars/Etc....

Several times in the last few years, we've had a deadbeat father who was arrested on drugs with large amounts of cash in the home. Now, I always have the talk with the ones I think are dealing and tell them that I don't care where the money came from just PAY YOUR CHILD SUPPORT. But no, they seldom do.


So its doubly depressing to us because not only do we know we'll never see a dime from this guy again, or at least for a long time. We also know that there is money we could have seized at some point.

So, we're sitting in Court and MadDog realizes that one of our State Representatives in sitting right there because she wants to understand the Court system better. He goes over to her and says, "May I lobby you?"

She laughs and he explains the issue and asks how to get the law changed.

She does it! She's on the right committee and goes down and gets the change made, and gets it out of committee and into the house and and it passes 96 to 0 and its now its in the Senate.

Wow. Its like, how the political process is supposed to work. I'm just beside myself.

Oh, and what's really sad is that each time this has happened we've called the law enforcement agency and asked for the money and offered them letters to the newspaper and articles in the paper about how wonderful they are if they'll let us have enought to pay off the arrears- and answer is always: not no, but hell no. Ha! That's what you get for being intractible.

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