Two good bills died yesterday in committee.
Recall last year when the unions put four poison pills on the ballot and then withdrew the on the promise of $3 million from business?
Rep Amy Stephens put forth a good government bill that would have made that illegal. It died on a 6=5 party line vote, although one Democrat voted for it.
Likewise, a bill to require identification to register to vote died in another committee on a 4-3 party line vote.
I've been making the point for two years that the greatest power of the majority party is the power to stack the committees in the legislature.
When social conservatives want to "thin the ranks" of "weak Republicans," they forget that if those "weak Republicans" are in the legislature at the time the legislature is organized, the social conservatives will have more power, not less.
We all pay dearly for the losing strategy that social conservatives have insisted that the Republican Party play.
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