Tuesday, December 12th, 2006...11:25 am
Pearce Controversey Makes Yellow Sheet
The Yellow Sheet, a capitol tip sheet that all the cool insiders read (you know it must be what the cool people read because I don’t), has a few items on the ongoing controversey about Russell Pearce’s reappointment as head of the appropriations committee.
The editors give credit to our own Jim Nintzel (who is cool because he reads this blog) for highlighting not only this appointment but several others made by Jim Weiers in a recent column. The Tucson Citizen ran an editorial on the matter last week, and I also wrote about this as well.
The Democratic caucus has scheduled a press conference on this matter tommorrow, and Steve Gallardo was sharply critical of the appointment of the often bombastic, divisive and at best borderline racist Pearce to this important committee.
Apparently, according to the Sheet, nitpicking liberals like me and Gallardo aren’t the only ones who have trouble with Pearce:
Pearce’s antics have been so offensive, a railbird told our reporter yesterday, that House Republican Leaders are having difficulty filling out the Appropriations Committee roster–expected to be between 15 and 18 members–because a number of members are unwilling to sit on a committee he chairs.
Ouch!
How bad does it have to be that a legislator won’t sit on appropriatons? Isn’t that what lawmakers dream of at night?
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