Once again, Lil’ Johnnie Kavanagh has introduced a bill to outlaw begging for food. Senate Bill 1029 is a fruitless copy of his identical bill that Gov. Hobbs vetoed in April. His new legislation will be doomed, most likely by fellow Republicans who are sick of his Lil’ Johnnie’s act.
For 10 years, Lil’ Johnnie has pursued a failed vendetta against beggars, trying to label them felons. As he drives from his $1 million home in Fountain Hills, he still has to look out of his shiny, warm car and tolerate beggars pleading for food in winter.
He has lots of food in his palace, but not for roadside beggars. Kavanagh, an Arizona State Senator since 2006, sees himself as too important to tolerate the sight of beggars. Lil’ Johnnie wants beggars arrested and thrown into jail.
The source of the problem
Kavanagh said that when getting off the freeway in Mesa, he often found the light red because someone kept pushing the button at the crosswalk. Kavanagh said the intent is to stop traffic and provide extra time to beg.
He was infuriated by a federal judge who voided state laws in 2013 that made panhandling a crime. So, a year later, Lil’ Johnnie rewrote the law as SB1094.
“Here’s someone who’s not working, who’s bumming money, and he’s going to slow you down so he can bum off more people?” Kavanagh told reporters, calling panhandling at crosswalks “one of those little murderers that drive people crazy and make people upset that government can’t control bad behavior.”
Nice try Lil’ Johnnie, but fellow Republican Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed it.
Kavanagh said recently, “These are “quality of life crimes.” Those hungry beggars deserved to be arrested and thrown into beggar’s prison. “These are the little incivilities that drive the middle class out of our cities and destroy cities and make them ghettos,” he said.
Undeterred by defeat, Lil’ Johnnie introduced yet another anti-begging bill in 2015. “These crosswalks are meant to get pedestrians across the street, not to provide captive audiences to people who panhandle,” he said of his SB1063. “It’s stealing other people’s time.”
Ex-governor Ducey signed the bill into law.
Emboldened, Lil’ Johnnie wrote a second bill, SB1051, in 2017 to punish begging. He said he aimed to protect people “trapped” in their shiny vehicles from having to see beggars. However, his fellow Republicans unanimously rejected the legislation as too ugly to believe.
Last January, Johnnie was still mad at still having to see beggars and introduced SB1073. It outlawed activating a pedestrian signal at an intersection to beg. Gov. Hobbs vetoed it on April 10.
So, one week before Christmas 2024, Lil’ Johnny introduced SB1029, a repeat bill to ban people from begging in traffic medians.
It is, of course, doomed. Republicans may get nausea from Lil’ Johnnie’s anti-begging obsession. Gov. Hobbs will certainly veto it.
On the night before Christmas, Lil’ Johnnie will sit snug in his bed, with stockings hung by the chimney with care. But he’ll see no visions of sugar plums dancing in his head. He’ll see Santa, who will look like a peddler just opening his pack.
With a wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Santa will give Lil’ Johnnie something to dread – bags of poop from his eight tiny reindeer. Santa will exclaim, ‘ere he drives out of sight, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night” — but not you, Lil’ Johnnie.
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But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. So likewise an Arizona legislator passed him by. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
John loves to lecture people about God being in the room, he’s just doing what Jesus says to do in the bible.
“Throw all the people less fortunate than me into a for profit prison, because my campaign donors need another yacht, and I have a better life than them bums and I do not appreciate being reminded that I’m a giant hypocrite while I’m trying to drive to my taxpayer funded job”!
Or like the famous poem on the Statue of Liberty says, “Give me them tired and poor wretched-mother-f’s so my private prison stock price can go up without me having to do a real honest days’ labor”.
Remember when John Who Dines on the Taxpayer Dime Kavanagh was here gloating like a teenage girl about Biden losing because of the price of eggs?
Now felon and rapist Don-old says there’s not much he can do about the price of groceries.
Good call, there, Johnny boy.
Oh well, we already knew that Kavanagh is not super smart, or kinda’ smart, or at all smart, and he believed Don-old the rapist’s BS, nor is he a good person, but at least he’s the poster boy for being a fake Christian, fake Capitalist, Fake Republican, and fake American.
And no one can ever take that away from him, and we’re still not laughing “with” you, f’face.
Good post and nice image of Johnny Boy in all his corpulent glory!
Believe one of his ideological ancestors, a minor nobleman in 18th century France, who while riding in his carriage ran over and severely injured a peasant. The nobleman demanded the peasant be punished for the emotional pain the incident inflicted on his horse.
In a just world Johnny Boy would have to be standing in an intersection (or freeway ramp) holding a sign that reads “Will give h**d for food”.
Corpulent Glory is the title of my sex tape.
Sorry Wileybud, I had to.
Sorry for what? I heard CG could be a musical group consistent entirely of obese musicians.
@wileybud –
Actually, his sign would read “Will betray the public trust for food…Will be a bigot for fun”