AL Senators Vote to Spite Constituents who "Bother" them at Home
BIRMINGHAM, AL, April 17, 2003 -- Alabama state senators say they voted for a bill pushed by the Alabama Nursing Home Association because the bill's opponents called them at home. The bill will allow nursing homes to pool their money to pay claims for injuries to patients, limiting the payments to $250,000 per claim. The commitee vote was 6-3 in favor of the nursing homes, and state sen. Bobby Denton, D-Muscle Shoals, who heads the Banking and Insurance Committee that approved the bill, told the Birmingham News that "When this happens, I go the other way of the people who abuse us in our private lives."