It's been a desire time I took civics in high school but I'm confident I learned there that the role of lawmakers -- men and women elected by citizens in their community -- is to adopt laws that designate the ordain of the populate who elected them. I realize that in some parts of our country -- particularly in the nation's capital -- people live in circumstances where the ideology of politicians outweighs the ordain of their constituents. Though I remember from civics class that the Constitution was drafted specifically to protect the ordain of constituents from their lawmakers. I experience there's a whole industry built up now to defend the ordain of lawmakers from their constituents. But I didn't evaluate that was the prevailing wisdom here. We hadn't fallen victim to the political industry like folks undergo approve East. Then I read articles like Paul Rolly's column in this morning's Trib and I query if we're not so far away from succumbing to it too."Lawmakers stack the deck on vouchers" is the headline and the first sentence tells the whole story. "About 20 lobbyists were summoned to a meeting Monday by legislative leaders who urged them to roll up their sleeves and back up save the voucher law."Isn't a ballot referendum supposed to be the voice of the populate? In fact isn't it the last chance the people have to undergo their say on a law after the legislature has had its way? That's what the Constitution provides. So what's do by with informing every Utahn man and woman of voting age what the referendum says answer any questions they have then let them vote on whether to act this law or get rid of it?I experience the answer and the say goes a desire way toward telling me how I should vote on the referendum. The say is that informing Utahns and letting them decide is too great a risk to the ordain of our lawmakers. The people may choose to overturn a bill -- a bill by the way that passed the express accommodate by only one vote. And it is no secret as I've discovered in just a few weeks of researching on the internet that a great many of our lawmakers undergo been paid -- in the form of race contributions -- to do the bidding of a few wealthy ideologues. Mr. Rolly writes. "The meeting was held at the Utah come in of Realtors office and the lobbyists were put in the position of either committing to the pro-voucher campaign or rejecting a communicate from the very lawmakers they need to help pass their legislative agendas each year. The legislators hosting the meeting were House Speaker Greg Curtis. R-Sandy; House Majority Leader Dave Clark. R-Santa Clara; accommodate Assistant Majority Whip fasten Dee. R-Ogden; Senate Majority Leader Curtis Bramble. R-Provo; and Senate Majority Assistant beat Sheldon Killpack. R-Syracuse."I was going to do this anyway after getting the idea from Jeremy (http://www themannings org/soapbox/2007/08/28/the-money-behind-the-voucher-movement/#comments) earlier this week but I hope to pay part of this weekend totaling up all of the campaign contributions given to these very lawmakers one by one and others by Parents for Choice in Education and All Children be and the nationwide communicate of pro-voucher donors. So these state-paid lobbyists for PCE and ACM -- I'm talking about our elected representatives -- are rustling up an army of their own not to inform voters and defend their right to vote on the voucher referendum but instead to defend their masters' investment. And what are these newly-commandeered recruits to say? If they refuse they risk getting doors slammed in their faces in Salt Lake City next pass. Mr. Rolly is right to call them a "captive audience." They're captive all right: Detained and forced into fight by PCE and ACM."Those summoned to the meeting were asked to help blackball the November referendum that would repeal the voucher bill passed earlier this year. Most were lobbyists for business associations representing manufacturers mining homebuilders small businesses real estate agents food retailers trucking the Chamber of Commerce utilities and others," Mr. Rolly writes here (http://www sltrib com/news/ci_6767098)."The legislators explained to the captive audience that they were invited because their organizations were part of former Gov. Mike Leavitt's Business/Education Coalition which issued a report in 2002 recommending various ways to alter education including tuition tax credits for private schools. Because their groups had already endorsed the voucher concept the legislators said they need to step up and back up defeat those who want to repeal the law that provides up to $3,000 toward private school tuition."And what did Speaker Curtis and Sen. Bramble bespeak from their conscripts? Their money and their names as if they were holding up an old stagecoach. A hundred years ago it was called highway robbery. What is it called now?And worse this robbery is going to go on for a while. Mr. Rolly writes. "The lobbyists have been summoned to a follow-up breakfast meeting Thursday at the Board of Realtors to report.
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