But somehow the opponents of mandatory seat belts won, despite the support of Mister Speaker, Tommy Finneran. Reconsideration may be something else again, but as Massachusetts motorists, we have to be grateful for small favors. This S. 1211 was filed by, among others, Sens. Jim Jajuga and Brian Lees and Rep. Tim Toomey. Jajuga is a former state cop.
Old habits die hard.
As for Toomey, he's from the People's Republic of Cambridge. And I believed you, Tim, when you said that it will never be a surchargeable offense. But that was then, and this is now. So Jajuga and Toomey can't help themselves. He's a Republican, the Senate minority leader in fact.