No Decision Yet on Override, Says Utah Video Game Bill Sponsor
The sponsor of Utah's HB 353 told GamePolitics that he is undecided as to whether he will seek an override of Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman's veto of the controversial measure.Rep. Mike Morley (R) told...
View ArticleJack Thompson Threatens to "Proceed" Against Utah Attorney General
In the fallout from his latest, apparently unsuccessful attempt to legislate video games in Utah, disbarred Miami attorney Jack Thompson has issued a vague legal threat to Utah Attorney General Mark...
View ArticleUtah Attorney General to Thompson: Bring it on, Jack
On Monday GamePolitics reported on disbarred Miami attorney Jack Thompson's vague threat to "proceed" against Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff (R) if the popular, third-term A.G. didn't immediately...
View ArticleReport: Override of Utah Guv's Game Bill Unlikely (but still possible)
An override of HB 353, the video game/movie bill vetoed recently by Gov. Jon Huntsman, seems unlikely, according to Utah's Deseret News.Citing "legislative sources," the paper reports that a poll of...
View ArticleVideo Game Bill Fuels Conservative Talk Radio in Utah
Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) may have vetoed HB 353, the Jack Thompson-devised video game bill, but the debate over the bill certainly hasn't ended.Thompson recently spent two hours bashing the Guv, Utah...
View ArticleUtah Senate President Wants to Prosecute Jack Thompson Under CAN-SPAM Act
It seems as though Jack Thompson may have burned his final bridge in Utah - and turned a former political ally into an adversary in the process.In an e-mail sent out earlier today, Thompson claimed...
View ArticleJack Thompson Criticized by Utah Senate Website over E-mail Flap
In our previous story GamePoliticsbroke the news that Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups (R) threatened to have anti-game activist Jack Thompson prosecuted if Thompson did not stop sending him...
View ArticleFollowing Tumultuous Utah Stint, Jack Thompson Heads to Louisiana
Perhaps Yogi Berra said it best: It's like deja vu all over again.On the heels of ugly, public dust-ups with both the Utah Attorney General and the President of the Utah State Senate, Jack Thompson is...
View ArticleUtah Bill Sponsor Apologizes to Colleagues for Jack Thompson
Although anti-game activist Jack Thompson's latest campaign to pass video game legislation in Utah got off to a fast start, it is ending both unsuccessfully and with rancor.In the latest development,...
View ArticleJack Thompson Threatens Entire Utah Legislature with Prosecution
It has been more than a month since Gov. Jon Huntsman vetoed Jack Thompson's video game bill, but the disbarred attorney continues to wage an e-mail war with various Utah government officials. In his...
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