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not conceding anything senator thompson does or does'nt do has the "brotherhood seal of approval", what legislator has introduced anything better this session? and when or if someone else introduces something, we can all watch and see that it does not even get out of committee.

ARK. BLOG: Will Bond's constitutional amendment.

Just amazing, Hogs in NWA and Pork at the Capitol. Think I'll fetch some BBQ for the weekend.

How much longer before that POS Altes is term limited out? I've never been in favor of the limits preferring to let the voters decide such things, but I'm willing to make an exception for the inbred morons who keep putting that piece of crap down here.

where is that altes person from?

I dont have anythign to hide, but that doesnt mean I want big brother or anyone else goign through my medicine chest.

If they found out I was on antidepressants, they would rate my policy higher, and im taking them because im taking steroids, so as to sleep four or five hours at night, along with other medications, but you cant splain anything like that to some Nazi who just goes through your prescriptions.

people like this Altes person get all worked up over the War on Drugs and dont consider the considerable havoc they could wreak on innocent people who are just taking what their doctors gave them. You cant talk to insurance companies, everybody knows that. we dont need anything more for them to harass us about, do we?

Its just so much cleaner, easier, and nicer to fight the war on drugs from the legislature than, say, if mr altes went with the police the next time they busted up a meth lab.
Let him handle the pit bulls.

Would it be so wrong to simply bar legislators from being lobbyists altogether? I know, they're not going to vote that way. After all, it's "career development" for them.

Still, it would limit the time they could spend at the public trough to either the time they spend as legislators OR force them to go into lobbying in the first place if that's what they really want to do.

I dont really have a problem with thompsons bill. What I am interested to see is if Thyers term limits bill will be one of the 3 chosen by the leg for voter approval. The only hope for passing that with voters is actually spend some ad money promoting it. Most voters didnt even realize it was on the ballot in 04 or what the bill would do. The only way our state can fight legisltors becoming big money lobbists is to let them be legislators a little longer. Any other thoughts?