Editor:
First, let me state that all laws should be constitutional. I have been following the legal goings-on with respect to mail-in balloting. What I find most interesting is that 11 of the 14 legislators that are contesting the constitutionality of the law voted for the law.
This got me wondering why they voted for it but changed their minds a year later. What changed? The obvious answer is that it was political and they didn’t like the outcome, or they went along to get along. But I wondered if there were other possible reasons.
Were they just lazy and didn’t read the law and constitution? I know it took me 30 minutes to find and read appropriate parts of the constitution.
Were they incompetent in that they did read it and didn’t understand it, or were they just unknowledgeable on the subject and didn’t bother to understand it? Or possibly after getting a pay raise they then had the time to investigate.
We have more full-time legislators than any other state. We pay in gross dollars the second most in salaries of every state, behind only New York, but on a population basis we pay 50% more. We pay almost $10 million more than California. I think we can expect better from our legislators.
Bernie Igusky
Spring Township
Source: Berkshire mont