What an ass Christie is.
"...As long as the crime scene isn’t your own body, the cost of evidence gathering is free, but be the victim of violent sexual assault, and you can still receive a bill in New Jersey.
“In no other crime would it even be contemplated that victims receive an invoice for the collection of evidence needed to prosecute the offenders,” stated Sen. Diane Allen, who decided to put a stop to this “inhumane practice” by sponsoring legislation that would protect survivors from being harassed for payment. Allen continued: “Victims who receive a bill are needlessly forced to relive their attack all over again by the very people to whom they turned for help.”Happily, the legislation sailed through both houses of the NJ legislature, but they too have hit a stumbling block, and it isn’t some podunk police chief and his ideologue Mayor in a little backwater town.
It is Governor Chris Christie who has failed to sign the legislation that has been sitting on his desk for ten weeks.In 2010, almost a thousand reported rapes happened in the state of New Jersey. That means while Mr. Christie sits in his chair stroking his chin and trying to decide whether victims should be charged and pursued by bill collectors if they can’t pay up, 190 women (give or take a few) will be getting an invoice for their own victimization."
http://www.themudflats.net/2011/08/17/is-chris-christie-pulling-a-palin-new-jersey-rape-survivors-billed-for-forensic-kits/
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