Wieck (R-Sioux City IA) takes action he opposed

[leQ]

A state senator who advocated legislation that would have done away with punitive damages now is seeking punitive damages over a dog bite he suffered while campaigning last summer.

Sen. Ron Wieck, 58, a Sioux City Republican and insurance agent, filed the lawsuit Friday. He's asking the dog owner to pay for past and future medical expenses, loss of damaged clothing, and pain and suffering, including anxiety and humiliation.

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The lawsuit alleges Wieck was bitten and injured in the groin July 18, 2002, by a coon dog that charged out of Delray Goulette's house in Pierson while Wieck was campaigning door-to-door.

Wieck was the Senate floor manager this year of a business regulatory reform bill that trial lawyers said would have set an "impossibly high legal standard" for punitive damages, rendering them moot in almost every civil lawsuit.

Democrats blasted Wieck for being on both sides of the issue.

"He is a hypocrite," said Senate Minority Leader Michael Gronstal, a Council Bluffs Democrat.

"Senator Wieck owes his constituents an apology for trying to limit their legal rights, the very same rights he is presently exercising," the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association said.
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780934/21812441.html

just goes to show, they're all poopyheads shitting on everybody else, until the shit lands on them.

[rfranklin]

1. The dog was right!

They can sense evil lurking behind a smile and a handshake.

ON EDIT: if only elected Democrats were as smart as the dog.