State senate committee votes to impose protest limits : State and West : Boulder Daily Camera

http://dailycamera.com/news/2008/mar/13/senate-committee-votes-to-impose-protest-limits/ A Senate committee backed restrictions on neighborhood protesters on Wednesday after hearing from one of the construction executives who has been targeted by abortion protesters for building a Planned Parenthood clinic. The men's neighbors also urged lawmakers to pass the bill, saying they had been harassed by protesters who have played recordings of crying babies, put up large photographs of fetuses on their sidewalks and sneaked into their backyards to leave plastic Baggies holding small baby dolls and fake blood. Weitz Co. regional senior vice president Gary Meggison told lawmakers his house in Lakewood has been protested 35 times in the last seven months and most of the time the protesters have sat in lawn chairs in front of his house. Twice he said they grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, most recently on Super Bowl Sunday. The home of Weitz president Bill Hornaday in Greenwood Village has also been targeted as well as the metro area homes of subcontractors building the clinic.

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