ESA Campaign Donation To Utah Attorney General?
GamePolitics tells us that Utah's Republican Attorney General Mark Shurtleff received a campaing contribution of $3,000 from the ESA in May of 2008. Shurtleff is currently reviewing some video game legislation drafted by your very favorite former-lawyer Jack Thompson.
Yeah.
But Shurtleff is no stranger to video game legislation, nor to pissing off Thompson:
- In 2005 he called for a boycott on Eidos's cops-and-robbers shooter 25 to Life.- In 2006 he appeared in a public service announcement advocating the ESRB rating system.
- In 2007 he advised the Utah Legislature to delay consideration of an earlier Jack Thompson-authored bill while a federal court considered the legality of a similar measure in Oklahoma. Afterward, Thompson called for Shurtleff's impeachment. The Oklahoma law was eventually ruled unconstitutional.
A Rebuplican advocate of the ESRB who's angered Thompson before by obeying the law but is nonetheless considering the disgraced madman's legislative proposal: such are the follies of politics and videogames.
ESA Made Campaign Donation to Utah Attorney General [GamePolitics]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 5 February 2009
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God I hate living in this state. Prop 8 and this are on the bottom of a very long list. If it weren't for the free tuition I would be long gone.