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It's easy to want to beat up on Speaker Andy Dillon on the blogs. Personally I like the man, quite a bit actually. But the bane of many politicians and politicos is that you can like the person and but not their policies. Hence, this has often been the case of Liberal Lucy and Speaker Dillon. Fortunately for both he and I, yesterday's remarks at the opening of the 95th Legislative Session, proves that was not at all the case. Eric mentioned one of the points of Dillon's speech - the major debate over state property taxes, but for me, a couple of the other points mentioned really caught my attention. For one, the cutting of legislative pay and benefits. From Chris Christoff at the Freep: In remarks after he was elected to a second term as speaker, Dillon also said a streamlined state government must do more to help people facing job losses, home foreclosures and mediocre schools. "If we are going to ask others to sacrifice, we must lead by example," Dillon said in remarks to the 95th House, where 46 of 110 members are new.
As with anything, there's a catch, but it leads up to an interesting debate...
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