That leaves Arkansas
If Louisiana -- Louisiana! -- can pass tough new ethics legislation, why can't Arkansas? Is Arkansas more corrupt?
I do predict that the Louisiana lobbyists will endeavor to find end-runs on the cap on meal expenses, just as Arkansas lobbyists have done. The first hurdle is getting them to report at all. There's a famous sin industry lobbyist in Arkansas who has a nightly open bar tab at a downtown watering hole. Last time, I checked, he'd filed no reportable expenditures on the legislature, though I've seen legislators drinking at his table. Maybe they were picking up their own tabs. You think?
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It was twenty years ago today that 700 Arkansas citizens packed the state Capitol's rotunda to organize a petition drive for an initiated act reforming state campaign finance and ethics legislation. It will take a similar response by citizens to complete the job, because our legislature will not reform even it's own rules, much less the laws on the matter. The charade of the last session is proof of that and of the games played by the legislative "leadership" in our state.
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February 28, 2008 07:58 AM
I wish that I could claim that we have the best legislators that lobbyists can buy, but I'm afraid that not even those guys are getting their money's worth out of these goobers...
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February 28, 2008 08:09 AM
What is a legislators salary in LA?
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February 28, 2008 08:28 AM
FORGET the high-minded stuff - WHOSE tab, WHERE please?!! ;>)
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February 28, 2008 09:07 AM
A comment from someone who can't get through the sign-in process:
What is really needed to take care of these goobers are photographs of them with the drink in their hands to run in their local paper. Since most belong to a church denomination that is negative on alcohol usage (at least for everyone else), it might result in at least a different crop of goobers.
That's the reason why you never go fishing with just one of them. They'll drink all your bee
Fed Up to Here
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February 28, 2008 12:30 PM
I am still over here on the left wondering about the environmental damage caused by this industry in an area of the top of clean watershed and very porous ground.. If the tax proposals are not considering it now.. who will pay later? and how much? Is anyone even monitoring the impact now?
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February 28, 2008 01:19 PM