Thursday, December 3rd, 2009...9:05 am
Hell Hath No Fury…
Someone pointed out an interesting response to a Seeing Red Arizona post that I linked to the other day. The issue was payday lenders and their lobbyist’s ties to Jan Brewer. Here is a response from Ron Gould regarding one of those lobbyists:
I will be interesting to see how Republican Legislators, who found their name on [Chuck] Coughlin’s hit list last session, respond to his lobbying efforts.
An interesting question, yes, for bloggers, pundits and railbirds. But here is a state senator who, theoretically anyway, should be deciding the issues by policy merits and his own concience, arguing that this may be decided by pique over the goings on of internal Republican politics. This was, by the way, the entirety of his response to the post. Nothing there about what he felt about the actual issue at stake. It is only about the wrong lobbyist arguing the issue.
I guess I should be somewhat happy that Gould and his allies may be inclined to vote against the payday lenders, even if the motives are somewhat less than noble. Right for the wrong reason is unfortunately the best we can expect from the legislative majority these days.
2 Comments
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
As always, comedy Gould.
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Look, I think Senator Gould is of the worst ideaology ever. But why are we surprised he is making a vote based on personal notion rather than political competence?