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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The "Witching Hour" Approaches the Legislature
It's the "witching hour," the time in the legislative session when bills emerge from conference committees filled with "wooley boogers" and pork.
While there is some limited public scrutiny of what goes on in the legislature prior to mid-May thanks to the lazy and liberal capitol press corps, all bets are off as we move into the last few days. That's when legislators cut their backroom deals, hide outrageous amendments and issue misleading press releases, all designed to fool the public (hard) and the press (not so hard).
Among bills ripe for exploitation are the bills such as the one the insurance industry and their lapdog insurance commissioner Kim Holland are using to try and rip off senior citizens and charities, SB 1980. Others include the endowed chairs backlog, not yet in a bill but could emerge at any time to hurt medical research efforts. Senate liberals will be searching for openings to get their phony official English bill out of the way so as to remove that issue before the Fall campaign.
The list goes on and on.
We invite OKPNS readers to share their knowledge: if you get wind of phony, deceptive legislation that is about to emerge, send in your information to the OKPNS tip line. We'll follow up and try to shine the light truth on the last minute shady deals we get every May.
Labels: Kim Holland, OK Legislature, Rep. Ron Peterson Posted at 5/14/2008 08:10:00 AM 
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