Testimony wraps up on anti-Occupy bill

Senate State Affairs Committee Chairman Curt McKenzie has closed testimony on HB 404, the anti-Occupy Boise bill, after calling on 25 people to testify; all but one, Fairy Hitchcock, spoke out against the bill.

Now, the bill’s Senate sponsor, Sen. Jim Hammond, R-Coeur d’Alene, is wrapping up. “In my view this bill does not silence anyone’s voice,” he said. “The voices of our citizens were heard today in this auditorium. They’re heard regularly on the capitol steps. … They just can’t take our front yard and seize it for their own purposes to do that. That is not the same as free speech.”