State House Memo
The Monitor's April 5 editorial about House Speaker Bill O'Brien is one of the sillier ones of the last year and a half. It reminds me of the old legal adage, "When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on your side, pound the table." The Democrats - with the Monitor following closely behind - have not had good…
April 7, 2012
State House Memo
Re "House redistricting plan is unconstitutional" (Sunday Monitor Viewpoints, Jan. 1): It is sad that Rep. Terie Norelli is more interested in complaining about a problem than in helping solve the problem. She admits that the House redistricting puzzle is "difficult to piece together," but her team contributed nothing to the process. As one of the volunteers on the project I would…
January 5, 2012
State House Memo
Re "Lawmakers set to ignore state Constitution" (Sunday Monitor Viewpoints, Nov. 6): Grant Bosse is needlessly pessimistic about the state redistricting project. We will, in fact, be breaking up mega-districts into smaller districts, and we will be using floterial districts to help conform to the one-man-one-vote principle. I don't speak for the redistricting committee because I…
November 10, 2011