The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.
The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.