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Shakenbake's avatar

In my experience, legislators flee like cockroaches when a bunch of meanies (or teachers, same diff) shows up wanting to have a civil conversation with them about funding inequities between urban and suburban school districts. My personal representative pretended to be her own secretary when I came calling. I guess she couldn't get under the fridge fast enough. After quite a while spent tramping through the halls of the people's building wondering where the hell the legislators were, I saw a couple of beefy highway patrol troopers guarding a conference room from whence an equally beefy, mesquite smoked aroma emanated. Well. You could've knocked me over with a brisket sandwich when I saw a sign on the door that said it was a barbecue luncheon sponsored by an oil industry group for legislators only. At least I didn't need to worry about getting bbq sauce on my American flag tie. The voters had the last laugh though. The next governor was a Democrat.

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Verena Block's avatar

What? Why should they have to 'Honor the First Amendment?' It's not like they put their hand on a bible and swore to uphold the constitution or anything.

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