Arkansas Blog

Sweet Lord! It looks like a kindergarten class with a substitute teacher.

"Surely these shenanigans don't go on in the Arkansas ledge" hehe....surely you jest.....LOL

I think the one clear message of the last 7 years is that NOTHING MATTERS. It makes one question everything ever learned in life, every rule we've ever known means nothing to some people who believe they're above all laws. And isn't it something that those breaking the laws most often aren't crack dealers, but the very people we elect to make and protect our laws.

I fully expect someone in LR to take their little HandyCam to the next Arkansas legislative gathering and find out if this "push every button you can reach" style of voting is going on in Arkansas. We could nip this in the bud real quick by installing Vegomatic type cutters that guard 3 sides of the vote button. Cut off a few damn fingers and our public servants might stay in their own chairs during a vote. And a quick count of fingers would show if your representative has Multi-Vote Fever.

My heart goes out to the poor woman legislator from Texas who lists all the hardships of elected office. Oh...she has so many votes! Oh.....sometimes lunch is delayed! Oh......at times Democrats would vote wrong if you didn't vote for them while they're in the restroom! What shit! She and her goofy hair-do would benefit from some jail time.

We've got 2 choices. Do nothing and let them continue to ruin everything and make us not only look like fools, but be actual fools. Or rise up and make everyone....EVERYONE follow the laws of the land or go to jail. Think this is how Bush-Cheney stole 2 elections?

PS Watch for David Pryor to blame this double triple voting for a lot of his pro-war pro-torture votes as he campaigns across Arkansas next year. "Honest....I didn't vote for torture...that damn Cornyn reached over and voted for me while I was making hand signals under the stall in the restroom!" "I bent down to pick up a penny and Blanche leaned over and voted me to go to war with Iran while sticking her tongue out at me." Yeah.....that's the ticket.....all his many many pro-Cheney votes were made by other Republicans when he had his back turned! Oh lord......let the Arkansas voters be as dumb as I think they are...is the Pryor prayer.

Clearly private pin numbers or passwords as well as verification one is actually present when the vote occurs should be implemented. Constitutionally speaking it would seem a whole lot laws would need to simply be thrown out as well as a whole lots of reps who either pushed the wrong buttons or allowed them to be pushed for them without ever raising a stink.

It's way past time to crash the gates in a lot of places.

In Arkansas this most commonly occurs during voting on appropriations bills. By the time they hit the floor they'be been approved by a joint committee that already contains 40 of the 135 legislators. And members aren't playing games with each others votes - they are voting just as instructed. These folks have a full agenda ahead of time and know exactly what's in the bill. (Well some of them do, but the others will vote just as stupidly whether they push the button or not.) If they want to let the guy or gal next to them punch the button, who cares?

Theo, On what documentation or experience are you basing your allegation that this takes place in AR?

I'm wondering that if RW Texas can have such good video investigations of their legislature why can't we?

Eureka, go sit in the public gallery any afternoon of the session (next chance in '09) and watch. Wait until a couple of weeks have gone by so the appropriations bills are rolling.

Geebus, Theo.. Do they allow Dick Tracy surveillance cameras? *s* That is outrageous!

"To retain respect for laws and sausages, one must not watch them in the making." -- Otto von Bismarck

Well, dern! I guess I will have to go to he leg the next time it is in session. This seems to me a serious ethics violation. No other comment until I sit in the Peanut Gallery.

I am going out to puke