Breathing Easier

Instead of exhaling into a tube, New Mexico drivers can breathe a sigh of relief. The bill that would have required a breath-analysis ignition lock on every car sold in New Mexico died in the state Senate yesterday after being approved by a 2-to-1 vote in the House earlier this week.

[Thanks to Brian Combs for the tip.]

Comments

[Umbriel]

I concur with Patriot. The real question in my mind is, what the hell's wrong with the New Mexico state House that two-thirds of them thought this was a swell idea?

[Mo]

Ask the people that elected them. I bet you they weren't car dealers (unless, they only owned dealerships in AZ and TX).

[Walter Wallis]

One year they mandated seat belt-ignition interlocks. Several women were raped, one was killed on a train track because they could not start their cars to get away.
With stated playing one-downsmanship on one another, we might see the ridiculously low 0.08 go down to 0.05 or lower, so that if you had orange juice for breakfast you might not be able to go to work.

[Walter Wallis]

That is STATES playing

oops

[Larry Edelstein]

Note: the people who elect the State Senate are the same people who elect the State House.

[JimInNoVA]

One has to wonder how the pols thought they were going to get home from work every day. After all, no one could sign something like this without a few drinks in them...

[Patriot]

Thank God it got shot down. All that would happen is everyone in the state would drive across the nearest border and buy their car. Every dealership in New Mexico would have been out of business in a year.

[BigPhil]

The only a stupid law like this could get passed would be from the Feds. And nobody on the Federal level would be so stupid and arrogant as to .....

Oh no....

(It can't happen here in the USofA, can it???)