{"id":2135,"date":"2005-04-05T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T14:31:07","slug":"2135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/2135\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bray Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri State Senator Joan Bray (D-University City) also dissents from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/archives\/2005_04_03_archive.html#111270775658376335\" target=\"_new\">Go Directly to Jail<\/a><\/i> by wanting to make a felony crime in the state of Missouri to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/8003734E4C3E446486256FDA0019927C?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">not disclose a criminal record when getting a mail order bride<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Missouri men seeking a &#8220;mail-order bride&#8221; from a foreign country might soon have to disclose their criminal records and previous marriages to the prospective fiancee.<\/p>\n<p>A bill before the Legislature would require the full and accurate disclosure of such information. The measure would apply equally to a woman who sought a husband from another country. A violation would be a felony.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by Sen. Joan Bray, D-University City, is an attempt to stop the abuse of foreign women who suddenly find themselves in a strange country married to violent men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A ham-fisted attempt which probably wouldn&#8217;t protect that many foreign women in a strange country married to violent men.  But hey, felonies don&#8217;t cost anything to legislate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri State Senator Joan Bray (D-University City) also dissents from Go Directly to Jail by wanting to make a felony crime in the state of Missouri to not disclose a criminal record when getting a mail order bride: Missouri men seeking a &#8220;mail-order bride&#8221; from a foreign country might soon have to disclose their criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20325,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/20325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}