and our legislature is so out of touch with the rest of North Dakota.
You hit the nail on the head there. No disagreements.
Just by it's make up we're relegated to farmers, ranches, real estate agents etc that can take 3 months off every 2 years to legislate.
Include the insurance agents in there as well.
would have to guess there is more silver in the legislative chamber than spirit lake casino slot machines?
boy..you will get me going here. I can't believe no-one made any fuss when our legislators gave themeselves a 15% increase in pay while the guidelines specifically state they cannot give themselves more than 8% at one time. How they got away with that makes me want to puke my guts out.
I have tore into more legislators than I can shake a stick at, but the reality is that it doesnt' do much good. I have found that if you can take some time to educate them, you may have a chance.
Education used to make up quite a bit of the budget, now all of these over-aged polticians are dumping money into human services instead of education. How convenient for them. arrrgggghh