Arkansas Blog: You've been warned

Non-admirers have warned that House power Chris Thyer could prove to be the chamber's version of the Senate's Bigelow Bob.

If Delphi is right about this, those predictions may be true:

Be watching the stealth power grab fixing to slip through the House of Representatives on Thursday morning. Representative Chris Thyer’s HB1104 authorizes the Legislative Council and its Executive Committee to meet during the sitting of the General Assembly. The Legislative Council, an antiquated administrative creation that predates the reorganization of 1971 and the creation of Interim Committees, was originally intended to mind matters during the extended period when the General Assembly was not meeting. It was never to have power superior to the entire legislative body while sitting.

This is a bold usurpation of legislative authority by a small but powerful sect intent on exerting and keeping control even while the House and Senate are in session. It stinks like a mackerel by moonlight, and the smell is of a continuing purge and reshaping of the dedicated professional staff to reflect the conservative politics of those behind the effort.

Maybe Rep. Harrelson's blog can enlighten us on this.

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"This is a bold usurpation of legislative authority by a small but powerful sect..."

I thought we cleaned this kind of thing out of the legislature years ago. But Karl Rove-type stuff continues, and will continue forever. The only medicine to control it is continued watching/reporting by honest media like the AT and People's Tribune blogs.

Now, if we could only get the general pubic to care.

Posted by: Spirit | January 18, 2007 09:32 AM

I don't trust Thyer at all. From what I hear, his friends don't even like him. In a room full of arrogant men and women, he stands far above them all.

Posted by: rockstar | January 18, 2007 10:31 AM

Culture of Corruption = Arkansas Democrat House members.

As an aside, I love how you never mentioned what party Rep. Thyer represents, but you made sure to ID the Ed Chairman as a Republican (in bold, no less) in a disparaging manner previously.

I thought you were a "journalist."

Posted by: Arkansas Red | January 18, 2007 11:54 AM

Lest we forget, Thyer is ass-hole buddies with Benny Petrus. Think there might be a little coincidence in all this?

Posted by: Charles Eddie Smith | January 18, 2007 03:06 PM

Maybe we can stop this next week?
"Senate - Jan 18 2007 3:08:09 - Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs"
94 Yeas
Nays: 4
Bond Harrelson Rainey L. Smith
Present: 1
R. Green
Not Voting: 1
Schulte

I'm assuming the senators are equally ignorant of the implications of HB1104? Let's get to work on those Senate committee members to start with. . .

Posted by: ARMediaReformer | January 19, 2007 09:55 AM

Arkansas Blog

You've been warned

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