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Lawmakers working on mail-order bride bills receive bizarre proposals
Thursday, February 7, 2002
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES
OLYMPIA -- Politicians advocating protections for mail-order brides attracted some strange correspondence this week.
After progress on a proposal to regulate the international matchmaking industry, some female legislators backing the bill have received bizarre proposals by e-mail, either as pranks or because someone has surreptitiously added the lawmakers' names to a Web site.
Most of the messages are brief and seem to come from nowhere.
"I couldn't figure it out for quite a while," said Sen. Debbie Regala, D-Tacoma, who received 15 or 20 such missives.
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