Recently, the Bonusgate Grand Jury issued a report which has received a great deal of media attention. This report had nothing to do with the criminal charges against specific individuals they investigated. This report was an extremely rare supplemental grand pronouncement on the state of the our government, along with numerous recommendations for restructuring the entire legislature. Because I believe that the methodology, the conclusions and the recommendations of the report are, in many respects, dead wrong, I felt compelled to comment.

First, let me concede that bashing the legislature is easy. Like any profession, we have our bad apples and it is lazy but effortless to generalize their conduct to everyone. Further, because virtually every citizen is unhappy with some of our policy decisions, it’s not difficult for a candidate for Governor or other office to glean votes by pandering to those who think that only people who are corrupt or stupid could make the decisions they disagree with.

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