Comments on Advance Indiana™: Tully On The Worst Legislature

Doug, In Section 3 of Article 10, it reads: "No m...

2009-05-03T14:05:00.000-05:00

Doug, In Section 3 of Article 10, it reads:

"No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in pursuance of appropriations made by law."

You can't have a state budget to draw moneys from the state treasury if the legislature doesn't make appropriations.

Got a citation to the part of the Constitution tha...

2009-05-03T13:43:00.000-05:00

Got a citation to the part of the Constitution that explicitly requires the General Assembly to pass a budget? I hear this bit about Constitutional duty from time to time, and haven't been able to identify its source.

Obviously, the budget is a practical necessity, but I haven't found they duty spelled out in the Constitution.

The sad thing is some of us citizens have grown to...

2009-05-02T06:29:00.000-05:00

The sad thing is some of us citizens have grown to expect this sad behavior from the world's worst state legislature that we are un-energetic to do a thing about it as in, the republicans hold their districts so strong you can't get rid of the dead weight there and the democrats are the same. The biggest hypocrite is Bosma who can moonlight as a high profile lawyer and then try to act like a great citizen advocate. Both Bauer and Bosma should be banned from serving the public in any capacity except dog catcher for 10 years.

AI said: "There is a stunning lack of effective r...

2009-05-01T13:58:00.000-05:00

AI said:
"There is a stunning lack of effective rebels in either chamber willing to challenge their legislative bosses and the old way of doing things. Third, if things don't change and if the legislature doesn't start thinking less about politics and more about policy, Indiana is going to sink even further behind other states."

Gary,
100% dead on and AMEN! Convince some legislators in believing some of the tax payers information and they will be leaders not rebels.