Posted by The week played as I expected unfortunately. The Constitutional Amendment to remove the state portion of the sales tax from certain grocery sales in Alabama failed to receive the BIR vote. With that the House Black Caucus vowed to kill the rest of the legislative session with filibustering until this bill was passed. I find this position somewhat interesting because the black caucus also took a position several weeks ago against my legislation to grant subpoena powers to the Ethics Commission. Since they took their position the bill is now not allowed to be put on the Special Order Calendar. While I obviously did not like this I didn’t threaten to make government come to a stand still. I just moved on to the next legislation we were working on in the House. We have too many issues to deal with in this state and to let one bill hold up the entire House for the rest of the session just isn’t sensible in my opinion.
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If the black caucus is killing the session then it should be front page news in every paper and blog and website in our state. Are people too scared that they will be called racist to call them out on killing ethics legislation and the rest of the session?
The Mobile Press Register covered it:
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/123814537399410.xml&coll=3
Thanks for the link – I hadn’t read that. However, it looked to me like the PR article was more about calling Governor Riley a liar than the black caucus playing politics with the session.
You’re right, William. You can count on the press to usually miss the real story and focus on just the name calling. Why doesn’t the House GOP have a press conference and highlight the fact that it is Democrats in both the House and Senate who are killing the session with filibusters. The Dems always claim it’s Republicans who do that.
Where in the world is Mike Hubbard?
I swear Cam I think you are the only real Statesman in that entire body. Thank you for doing the right thing when your (very important and worthy) bill granting subpoena powers to the ethics commission was killed. All legislators should take a page from your book. And it sounds like more than a few of them should revisit kindergarten to learn all over again how to get along with others.