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Kinda like a legislator saying "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it"; we see how well that's working out...

If some state passed a law which outlawed red hair, I would hope that the police would refuse to enforce it, rather than saying "take it up with your legislator." "I was just following orders" is never an excuse for your actions.

You don't have to pass an economics test to become a legislator. I think sometimes in any group that deals with another group there's an "us versus them" mentality that takes over.

Of course, when legislators pass pension hikes, they do so knowing that it pleases powerful unions now and the costs to tax payers are decades down the road. So it is one of the more appealing ways for a legislator to screw their state.

But it's unlikely to change, because the last thing any legislator wants is to be on unfavorable terms with the legal profession.

As a legislator though, it seems the far more practical way of ending phone surveillance would be to draft a bill making it explicitly illegal.

In fact, his "if I were a legislator today" comments are essentially the same as the "I jumped at the opportunity to" do actions in the 1980's.

A HK legislator is backing Snowden because civilian infrastructure in HK has been hacked. This is a criminal offence and must be investigated.

We're using a script that the late Aaron Swartz wrote to deliver emails directly to Congress via the contact us pages on legislator's websites. That means there'll be hundreds of thousands of emails delivered to Congress in the coming days.

Has a legislator ever paid much of a political cost for passing unconstitutional legislation? It must have happened, but I'm not aware myself of any serious pain for any of them.

> If I were a legislator today, Id mandate and provide funding to ensure that every teacher receive training in recognizing symptoms of mental illnesses. Teachers have enough on their plate, and more importantly, that's not what teachers are for.

Reagan wasn't the only legislator responsible for this turn of events, but he was probably the most powerful. Perhaps homelessness is inevitable to some degree.

The rights of US citizens should be the foremost concern of a US legislator and when it comes to satisfying a treaty compromising those rights the treaty or international precedence should be thrown out the window. I feel like I am now living in bizarro world where no right is safe.

I think his point was that OP did exactly that, and found that the 'AAs already have his legislator firmly in their pocket. It's like that scene at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where the chick is all relieved to see someone she knows and trusts, only to realize too late that he has already been converted.

So I spent about a week with headaches because some CA legislator decided it was in my best interest to pay some practitioner to get the same prescription for glasses every year.

Even the dumbest Republican legislator has got to understand that. Likewise, same-sex marriage rights are as inevitable as Loving v.

Meanwhile, your busy job as a legislator means you still get driven everywhere, so you come across looking like a huge hypocrite. Now you've put a regressive tax on getting to work, you've caused a rise in traffic accidents, you're anti-family, you've raised the prices of everything, you've triggered a recession, and you're a hypocrite.

Well, if my choice of senator or congressperson helps make the difference between a land war in Iran or not, I'm going to have a hard time factoring in that legislator's support for copyright reform. The bigger issue here though, the reason I'll go out on a limb and call copyright reform a fringe issue, is that it's supported by crazy people.

Things like this are easy to say: > If I were a legislator today, Id mandate and provide funding to ensure that every teacher receive training in recognizing symptoms of mental illnesses. but teachers aren't psychiatrists or clinical psychologists and can't really be expected to be.

Speaking as a professor, I'd be furious if some legislator told me exactly which textbook to use. I'm concerned about book prices, certainly, but mandating a specific text would immediately shut down the few attempts at innovation in textbooks or curriculum that do exist.

I'd much rather have this settled by entrepreneurs fighting on the basis of their ideas than some legislator without a clue. No company dominates forever esp in technology. Craigslist disrupted a huge classified industry without any legislator saying that papers had to "open" up their data.

Bugs are fixed and problems are addressed faster than the average legislator can spell "malleability". It would work even better if there was less regulation and investors could fund exchanges in the US without having to buy a bank, so that development could actually happen everywhere and not only in Japan and Slovenia.

Additionally, Reagan was never a legislator, but only served in an executive capacity, as Governor of California and as President of the US.

Hang out at the state legislature building with a well-researched, snappy proposal, and hang around trying to talk to legislators or their chief of staff. Its best if you have a list of people who support your proposal. You will get heard. You might not win, but odds are that if you don't it'll not be because some big company stuffed some campaign fund with a big check, but because they simply called up a legislator and said: "this will cost us jobs." People campaigning for environmental laws somehow manage to have a lot of influence, yet they have none of the bargaining advantages of the tech industry. They don't have a ton of money like the tech industry, and half of politicians and voters have an intrinsic distrust of environmentalists because they think it's God's will to pillage the earth's resources. Yet somehow we continue to make progress on environmental issues. The system isn't ideal, but it's isn't broken. Rather, techies are lazy, entitled, and arrogant. The very thought that their beliefs aren't universal, that legislators don't consider their opinions plated in gold sends them into a tizzy.