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Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Sat March 25, 2023 4:14 am
mXn
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Jfc I saw on the news where a Seattle city councilmember was challenging the notion that late fees incentivize people to pay for things (parking tickets, mortgage, rent, bills, you name it … even returning library books) on time.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Sat March 25, 2023 6:15 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32515 Location: Where everybody knows your name
Bammer wrote:
Jfc I saw on the news where a Seattle city councilmember was challenging the notion that late fees incentivize people to pay for things (parking tickets, mortgage, rent, bills, you name it … even returning library books) on time.
When are you going to announce your candidacy?
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Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Sun March 26, 2023 4:54 am
mXn
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wease wrote:
Bammer wrote:
Jfc I saw on the news where a Seattle city councilmember was challenging the notion that late fees incentivize people to pay for things (parking tickets, mortgage, rent, bills, you name it … even returning library books) on time.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Fri April 28, 2023 9:43 pm
mXn
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Bammer wrote:
Trag, (this post probably belongs in the local government thread by the way):
I wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to the idea that members of XYZ committee are better equipped to vet a bill covering XYZ topic than the members of a different committee. In my experience very few people in XYZ committee have close working knowledge of XYZ topic. They move very quickly (at least in WA) throughout their day talking about gun laws, then salmon population, then housing, then drugs, then whether or not to tack on $1 to the cost of each Mariners ticket for SoDo neighborhood improvements, to stem cell research, etc. it’s like speed dating from one issue to the next in rapid succession, and again, members of XYZ committee are not necessarily experts on XYZ topic.
Yeah but that’s what legislative services divisions are for dawg
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Fri April 28, 2023 10:21 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47166 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
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ABOUT THE LEGISLATIVE SERVICES DIVISION
The mission of the Legislative Services Division (LSD) is to provide bill and amendment drafting, committee staffing, policy and legal research, reference and communications, information technology, and administrative support services to the House, Senate, and other divisions of the Legislative Branch and to support the mission of the Legislative Council.
Established in 1957 as the Montana Legislative Council, LSD was originally created by the Legislature as the first permanent legislative agency to provide information to legislators and the public and to study selected problems confronting the Legislature in the interims between biennial sessions.
Since then, the Legislature has added to the division’s duties and responsibilities in a variety of areas. The division is organized into five functional offices, each of which is nonpartisan and serves the entire Legislature. These are:
Financial Office Human Resources Office Legal Services Office Office of Legislative Information Systems (OLIS) Office of Research and Policy Analysis (ORPA) Legislative Environmental Policy Office (LEPO)
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