http://www.hjblogs.com/former-legislator-refutes-renegade-republican/ HJblogs.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.hjblogs.com/former-legislator-refutes-renegade-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Lynda Jensen, Editor Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:55:19 +0000 http://www.hjblogs.com/former-legislator-refutes-renegade-republican/#comment-223 Are legislators supposed to mindlessly support "their party" regardless of their own logic and thoughts on the issue at hand? You know that I like the governor very much, but even he does not expect so much -- his instructions to Republicans before the "veto" vote was to "Vote your conscience." I don't know about you, but I would hope that each legislator weighed the pros and cons, and then voted accordingly. I don't care for the gas tax increase, but I respect those who voted in favor because they felt that the roads and bridges needed to be fixed now with money now. That's honorable. Are legislators supposed to mindlessly support “their party” regardless of their own logic and thoughts on the issue at hand? You know that I like the governor very much, but even he does not expect so much — his instructions to Republicans before the “veto” vote was to “Vote your conscience.” I don’t know about you, but I would hope that each legislator weighed the pros and cons, and then voted accordingly. I don’t care for the gas tax increase, but I respect those who voted in favor because they felt that the roads and bridges needed to be fixed now with money now. That’s honorable.

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