Lazy Iowa House Republicans
February 20th, 2007 at 05:34pm Geraldine
As Mark over at Bleeding Heartland notes, four Iowa House Republicans, including Scott Raecker, requested a hearing on a bill and then didn’t show up for the hearing. The bill, SF 62, passed the Senate unanimously. At the hearing, only three people showed up. The four House Republicans have every right to call for a hearing to be held on SF 62 or on any other bill. But for them to set up a hearing and then not show up is an insult to every taxpaying Iowan. It shows that those four legislators are more interested in political gestures (and political gestures that waste taxpayer money to boot) than actually governing. This is a new low for State House Republicans, who have already spent the still young legislative session insulting working families and playing politics with the health of Iowans. Now, they’re not even bothering to show up for work. But if Raecker and his three fellow goldbricks, Carmine Boal, Linda Miller and Tami Wiencek, don’t want to do their jobs, that’s fine. I’m sure we can find four good Democrats to replace them in 2008.
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