Unlike every other town, we don't have a plan for downtown so when state officials say we have to put something there, we do it,
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The committee chair would have killed the bill to teach me a lesson of the impertinence of a freshman introducing policy. Or, if the chair really liked my bill, they'd strip my name off and put theirs onto it, before moving it out of committee. Or I'd have never have sent the bill for a hearing. What wouldn't have happened is for a bill to pass out of committee with my name on it.Keeley
The prior system rewarded patience and loyalty. The new system rewards creativity and initiative. Neither of those systems is all good or all bad. It simply changed the value system of what gets rewarded,
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What is happening apparently is because of the prohibitive price of fuel, people are taking shorter trips, taking long weekends rather than two weeks at the ocean, ... But shorter trips, given the access we have here to large metropolitan areas, means folks are coming to visit us rather than travel to more remote vacation destinations.
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They aspired to be a legislator, and once there, dug in. They wanted to master a specific area, and aspired to the chair of this or that committee.
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That's the difference between asking people about a big nameless faceless institution and someone they have a personal interaction with,
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