Latest fight over cockfighting ends the same.

From: Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, NM) | Date: February 23, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Walter Rubel

Feb. 23--SANTA FE -- The arguments were impassioned and many, but they weren't exactly new and unique. Neither was the final result.

The Senate Conservation Committee voted Tuesday to table a bill sponsored by Sen. Mary Jane Garcia, D-Dona Ana, that would have banned cockfighting.

While a different bill is making its way through the House, the committee has stalled the legislation in the Senate.

Garcia first introduced a bill in 1989 seeking to ban cockfighting, and the arguments haven't changed much since then. Proponents of the bill ...

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