Patrick Allen is my hero of the day
So the shit is hitting the fan over the Maui trips that went unreported by some Republicans and two Dems (that we know of so far).
Let me be the 137th person to get in line to rap these dumbasses across the skull.
You go to a swanky resort in Maui on the Beer and Wine Lobby tab and (most of you) say you didn't think you had to declare it cuz the lobbyist failed to tell you to do it? Jeezus.
There's obviously a laundry list of problems with that excuse, not the least of which is if you can't figure out that a vacation in Maui is over the $144 limit that requires it to be declared, you're too stupid to be in office.
With this sort of legislator brainlessness comes the inevitable hand wringing over what needs to change so this sort of thing doesn't happen again.
Enter Paul Farago, cowpoke extraordinaire for Term Limits. Paul uses the brouhaha to peddle term limits over at Blue Oregon:
The eagle eyed Patrick Allen offers the next comment following Farago's:
Yay Patrick! God, you're good.
Hilariously, Farago's own term limits website confirms Patrick's comment right on the front page:
Measure 45 - AMENDS CONSTITUTION: LIMITS STATE LEGISLATORS: SIX YEARS AS REPRESENTATIVE, EIGHT YEARS AS SENATOR, FOURTEEN YEARS IN LEGISLATURE. M45 restores voter-approved limits in effect from '92-'02.
Ding!
Farago then goes on to dig himself a big ol hole by saying that term limits aren't a panacea.
Uh...ya think?
So in summary, Paul Farago would like everyone go out and vote for term limits because it isn't a fix-all and it doesn't solve the problem at hand.
This has been a public service announcement.
Let me be the 137th person to get in line to rap these dumbasses across the skull.
You go to a swanky resort in Maui on the Beer and Wine Lobby tab and (most of you) say you didn't think you had to declare it cuz the lobbyist failed to tell you to do it? Jeezus.
There's obviously a laundry list of problems with that excuse, not the least of which is if you can't figure out that a vacation in Maui is over the $144 limit that requires it to be declared, you're too stupid to be in office.
With this sort of legislator brainlessness comes the inevitable hand wringing over what needs to change so this sort of thing doesn't happen again.
Enter Paul Farago, cowpoke extraordinaire for Term Limits. Paul uses the brouhaha to peddle term limits over at Blue Oregon:
There's already more to this story, and much more to come. For example, today's article left out the post-trip political donations that were detailed about the 2002 trip; it's public record. You can go here to learn about similar trips in '94, '96 and '98 bought and paid for by super-lobbyist Paul Romain of the Oregon Beer and Wine Distributors Association.
The eagle eyed Patrick Allen offers the next comment following Farago's:
Paul, I'm shocked.
How could there possibly have been trips in '94, '96 and '98? We had term limits then, and those politicians would have been above such things. Or something like that. I guess. Whatever.
Yay Patrick! God, you're good.
Hilariously, Farago's own term limits website confirms Patrick's comment right on the front page:
Measure 45 - AMENDS CONSTITUTION: LIMITS STATE LEGISLATORS: SIX YEARS AS REPRESENTATIVE, EIGHT YEARS AS SENATOR, FOURTEEN YEARS IN LEGISLATURE. M45 restores voter-approved limits in effect from '92-'02.
Ding!
Farago then goes on to dig himself a big ol hole by saying that term limits aren't a panacea.
Uh...ya think?
So in summary, Paul Farago would like everyone go out and vote for term limits because it isn't a fix-all and it doesn't solve the problem at hand.
This has been a public service announcement.
posted by carla at 10:36 AM
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