Tuesday, March 29, 2022

"Part-Time" Leggies?

Nicholson is kicking up a lot of dust.  

The state Legislature would be in session fewer days and be paid less under an idea from a Republican candidate for governor who has centered his campaign on overhauling how state government works and has called for the GOP leader of the Assembly to lose his job. 

Kevin Nicholson, a U.S. Marine veteran and Pewaukee business consultant, said reducing time and pay for lawmakers would focus the Legislature's work and attract newcomers with full-time jobs while saving money. ...

That's the "Good Old Days" plan; Ken Merkel was a Leggie for a zillion years while working full-time at Kearney and Trecker.

That plan worked very well.  Wisconsin had a lot less asinine laws, less Leggie-empowered regulators--it was a comparatively free State, measured against the Thompson-Doyle-Walker-Evers mess we have today.

The dumbest comment on Nicholson's idea?

...Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who is running against Nicholson in the Republican primary for governor, said Nicholson's proposal suggested he did not understand the job of lawmakers. ...

Maybe he understands it better than you do, RebeccaAnd maybe he's not kissing Leggie asses for a reason, Rebecca.

This is going to be a lot of fun!!

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