3/29/2003
Mwah-hah-hah!
It is traditional at this point in the session for commentators to pondor the lack of progress and assume a special session is the only way out. Then everything is saved in the last two weeks of the session when our legislators pass hundreds of bills without reading much more than titles. But this year, notes the St. Pete Times' Lucy Morgan, even less is getting done than usual and the two chambers aren't talking.
The Tallahassee Democrat says "many observers" predict special session. (I prefer "Tallahassee insiders say" to "many observers say" when passing on the wisdom of lobbyists, but that's just my taste.) And Jeb Bush has threatened a special session if is new limits on malpractice suits aren't passed.
Then there's the matter of redistricting. That's right, redistricting. Just a technicality, but it seems the House is going to need the Senate to do it a little favor. As V.S. Date reports in The Post:
King said Friday he had no intention of holding House Republicans' control of their chamber hostage to his own priorities, such as increased taxes or slot-machine gambling, but then burst into laughter.
"It is leverage, obviously," King said, then admitted that he had also laughed during the conversation with Byrd. "I did chortle. I even chortled on the phone. It was a chortling kind of conversation."
Mwah-hah-hah!
That kind kind of chortle.
The Tallahassee Democrat says "many observers" predict special session. (I prefer "Tallahassee insiders say" to "many observers say" when passing on the wisdom of lobbyists, but that's just my taste.) And Jeb Bush has threatened a special session if is new limits on malpractice suits aren't passed.
Then there's the matter of redistricting. That's right, redistricting. Just a technicality, but it seems the House is going to need the Senate to do it a little favor. As V.S. Date reports in The Post:
King said Friday he had no intention of holding House Republicans' control of their chamber hostage to his own priorities, such as increased taxes or slot-machine gambling, but then burst into laughter.
"It is leverage, obviously," King said, then admitted that he had also laughed during the conversation with Byrd. "I did chortle. I even chortled on the phone. It was a chortling kind of conversation."
Mwah-hah-hah!
That kind kind of chortle.
