Comments on: 300,000 North Coast residents without a state senator

By: Dan Drummond Sr

Dan Drummond Sr — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:26:08 +0000

@ bear
You got me wrong. I was comparing 2013 to 1784. Only a fool would compare 2012 to 1781.
Oh, and the point was … they had to compromise about something that went against an earlier agreement.

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By: MOCKINGBIRD

MOCKINGBIRD — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:15:24 +0000

Thanks Reece-you are one of the smart ones who know where his bread is buttered. Honestly, you would think that it would be clear to anyone with little gray cells that the decline of the middleclass correlates directly to the decline of unions and union membership over the last 40 years. I get the argument that there are laws on the books to protect workers rights so we don’t need unions anymore. Like all those laws got on the books because beneficent, caring politicians put them there out of the goodness of their hearts! The union bashers don’t seem to notice that those laws are being gutted all across America right now with money from billionaires like the Koch Brothers buying elections. Non union workers don’t seem to realize that what benefits THEY HAVE were brought to them by union members in the past that fought and sometimes lost their lives to bring rights to all workers.

I am astonished how the clueless in this country seem to be growing in number.

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By: Taxpayer

Taxpayer — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:07:12 +0000

Worthless.

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By: bear

bear — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:00:21 +0000

@Drummond Sr.

Takes a lot of guts to compare 2012 to 1781. So we can have slavery, no votes for women, no votes for people who don’t own property and gun rights only for those who own one-shot muskets or dueling pistols?

Great. And Jefferson, despite his good ideas, could still sleep with his slaves.

I’d like a good over-18 female republican slave. Guess I’m just 220 years too late?

How old are you? Really?

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By: Reece

Reece — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:08:04 +0000

Jim,

If unions had all the power you right wingers think they have, they’d be increasing numbers and wouldn’t have to fight off all the right-to-work-at-a-crummy-payrate-with-no-benefits crowd.

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By: Jean Anderson

Jean Anderson — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:40:36 +0000

Evans, Pelosi, and Obama are three prime examples of why stupid people should not be allowed to vote.

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By: Demosthenes

Demosthenes — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:51:19 +0000

Anyone who thinks our Assembly or Senate represents are “lining their pockets” clearly have no idea what their compensation level is. The vast majority took pay cuts to go represent us.

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By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:28:34 +0000

Want to see who the Legislature represents? Want to understand how much control and power the unions have in this state? Read this article on the police union tactics.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204475004574126873641971850.html

This state is bankrupt. Period. Legislature is worthless. Politicians are overspending morons. Voters are idiots who want to point to the other side rather than to ALL the elected criminals, blind to what is actually going on.

That’s ok, just keep paying the highest taxes in the country on purchases, gas, income, hotel stays, rental cars, air, energy, etc, etc, etc, etc

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By: Troll spotting

Troll spotting — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:33:39 +0000

Hey PD editors: who is the administrator for this site? Please let us know, so that we know who is responsible for letting the countless trolls, many from out of state, continue to post nonsense and deliberately offensive personal comments to articles of local interest and concern to the rest of your readers.

By demeaning people and almost anything written, and by continuously trotting out the Tea Party Madness, they allow their egos to interfere with any useful discussions on this site.

Please exercise some discretion in editing posts at the PD website. Otherwise, it gets really really tiresome. Why bother having comments if they are dominated by Trolls?

Thank you.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:15:47 +0000

Is it fair to say that, oh, about 99% of effected residents won’t even know of this “leadership gap.” Their lives will simply go onward in blissful ignorance.

But, please, publicize this more. Maybe then people will begin to realize how little difference having an “on-the-job” legislator makes.

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By: Dan Drummond Sr

Dan Drummond Sr — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:34:00 +0000

Happy Ratification Day! Even at our launch, things were not so simple …
This act officially ended the American Revolution and established the U.S. as a sovereign entity.
Due to the severe winter of 1783–1784 (now known to be a consequence of the volcanic eruption of Laki in Iceland) only delegates from seven of the thirteen states were present in Congress. According to the Articles of Confederation, nine states were required to enter into a treaty.
Jefferson was elected to head a committee of members of both factions and arrived at a compromise. Assuming that only seven states were present, Congress would pass a resolution stating that the seven states present were unanimously in favor of ratification of the treaty, but were in disagreement as to the competency of Congress to ratify with only seven states. That although only seven states were present, their unanimous agreement in favor of ratification would be used to secure peace. The vote would not set a precedent for future decisions; the document would be forwarded to the US ministers in Europe who would be told to wait until a treaty ratified by nine states could arrive, and to request a delay of three months. However, if Britain insisted, then the Ministers should use the seven-state ratification, pleading that a full Congress was not in session.
In the event, delegates from Connecticut and South Carolina arrived at the last moment, and nine states ratified the treaty. Three copies were sent by separate couriers to ensure delivery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_Day_(United_States)

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By: Grapevines

Grapevines — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:48:53 +0000

“I’m going to do my utmost to represent them just like I would any other constituent,” she said.

Which means don’t expect anything because if she has to go out of her way to accomplish it, it isn’t going to happen.

Evans is bought and paid for by the State Employees and prison guards unions and she only does what they tell her to do. If your expecting her to think for herself and what the rest of who she is supposed to represent, you have the wrong person in mind because that’s not going to happen.

Total waste of oxygen as a representative of the people.

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By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:20:53 +0000

Anyone who believes any Legislator actually represents anyone but themselves is living in some sort of fantasy world. Remember Evans was the one who was complaining when there was talk of taking away some of the exorbitant perks for “representing” the voters.

With an approval rating below 10%, who cares whether there is a pseudo representative or not. They are all thieves and leeches who cower to the demands of their big dollar campaign contributors.

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By: BigDogatPlay

BigDogatPlay — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:52:18 +0000

My interests have not been represented in Sacramento, or Washington DC for that matter, in more than a generation. Why should this story make any fuss at all? It’s just business as usual.

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By: No Representation

No Representation — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:44:43 +0000

No representation or representation by the likes of Senator Evans. I’ll take the no representation. Senator Evans represents herself and her desire to line her pockets.

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