Comments on: The Virtue of a Part Time Legislature http://shaunkenney.com/index.php/2009/09/the-virtue-of-a-part-time-legislature/ Politics & Religion in Virginia's Public Square Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: What to do about the General Assembly? - Virginia Free Press http://shaunkenney.com/index.php/2009/09/the-virtue-of-a-part-time-legislature/comment-page-1/#comment-5291 What to do about the General Assembly? - Virginia Free Press Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:50:32 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/?p=9395#comment-5291 [...] Kenney, prompted by Waldo’s post, comes to a different conclusion. The problem isn’t one of part-time/full-time lawmakers.  Nor is the problem that of [...] [...] Kenney, prompted by Waldo’s post, comes to a different conclusion. The problem isn’t one of part-time/full-time lawmakers.  Nor is the problem that of [...]

]]> By: Lee Talley http://shaunkenney.com/index.php/2009/09/the-virtue-of-a-part-time-legislature/comment-page-1/#comment-5284 Lee Talley Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:43:12 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/?p=9395#comment-5284 Shaun, Read back even to Jefferson and the early federal government with Washington. Those boys had perks too. It a part of the system from the beginning period. The problem is with Del Hamilton is he just got a lil too obvious. You may want to jump the girls bones and she may want you to, but you know as well as I do there is a proper order and sequence of things... Dinner, Talking, and the like before you get to what in the end you both really are after. Phil just walked in the door and said hey.... lets get it on... Pull the entire GA's campaign finance reports... They all have perks. Some more than others... and a few honorable men who have none. This is bipartisan and endemic of both sides and I bet if you pulled the economic interest forms of any other state you would see the same. Its more pure at the federal level due to the byzantine regulations they put on people there. Not that they dont want perks... they just arent a down in it enough to figure out how to game the system. Sadly nothing will change in Virginia or any other state. The only way to make real refore would be term limits... keep them circulating in and out of the system before they can succumb to the temptations of power. In the end they are all just human, they fall to their demons just like we do. Their failings though make the 6 o'clock news. Shaun,
Read back even to Jefferson and the early federal government with Washington. Those boys had perks too. It a part of the system from the beginning period. The problem is with Del Hamilton is he just got a lil too obvious. You may want to jump the girls bones and she may want you to, but you know as well as I do there is a proper order and sequence of things… Dinner, Talking, and the like before you get to what in the end you both really are after. Phil just walked in the door and said hey…. lets get it on…

Pull the entire GA’s campaign finance reports… They all have perks. Some more than others… and a few honorable men who have none. This is bipartisan and endemic of both sides and I bet if you pulled the economic interest forms of any other state you would see the same. Its more pure at the federal level due to the byzantine regulations they put on people there. Not that they dont want perks… they just arent a down in it enough to figure out how to game the system.

Sadly nothing will change in Virginia or any other state. The only way to make real refore would be term limits… keep them circulating in and out of the system before they can succumb to the temptations of power. In the end they are all just human, they fall to their demons just like we do. Their failings though make the 6 o’clock news.

]]> By: Waldo Jaquith - Shorter sessions and zero pay for Virginia legislators? http://shaunkenney.com/index.php/2009/09/the-virtue-of-a-part-time-legislature/comment-page-1/#comment-5272 Waldo Jaquith - Shorter sessions and zero pay for Virginia legislators? Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:42:57 +0000 http://shaunkenney.com/?p=9395#comment-5272 [...] working—as I wrote about recently—but proposes basically the opposite solutions as I: shorter sessions and no pay. It’s sort of the opposite of the free market approach. Shaun also coins the phrase [...] [...] working—as I wrote about recently—but proposes basically the opposite solutions as I: shorter sessions and no pay. It’s sort of the opposite of the free market approach. Shaun also coins the phrase [...]

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