The committee chair would have killed the bill to teach me a lesson of the impertinence of a freshman introducing policy. Or, if the chair really liked my bill, they'd strip my name off and put theirs onto it, before moving it out of committee. Or I'd have never have sent the bill for a hearing. What wouldn't have happened is for a bill to pass out of committee with my name on it. |
The idea was, 'Let's make citizen politicians, instead of career politicians,' |
The prior system rewarded patience and loyalty. The new system rewards creativity and initiative. Neither of those systems is all good or all bad. It simply changed the value system of what gets rewarded, |
The whole mass of humanity is swarming around this place. And for a brief moment, the whole world is focusing on Rome. And we could be here -- I mean, we have cameras and we have microphones -- but we could be in the 14th Century, |
Their work is only as good as what the Legislature does with it, ... The Bureau of State Audits can't make anyone do anything. |
They aspired to be a legislator, and once there, dug in. They wanted to master a specific area, and aspired to the chair of this or that committee. |
They increased prices too fast and in my mind that is price gouging, |
They rejected it, ... I wouldn't have expected the Bush administration to do anything else. |
They're volleyball fans during the season though, |
Unlike every other town, we don't have a plan for downtown so when state officials say we have to put something there, we do it, |
We had Sam Farr and Henry Mello [in the legislature]. Who knows how long they would have served? |
We see what we need to work on. We're taking it one weekend at a time, |
We want to win the conference and go to the NCAA tournament, |
We're getting to know our opposition, ... We're plenty physical. If we play smart, we'll be good. |
We're so proud of daddy, and what he's doing for our country, |