The Democrat majority in the Alaska House of Representatives has told the Republican minority to sit down and shut up. They make the rules to advantage the Democrats.
House Republicans who were assigned to serve on Finance subcommittees as assigned Finance members are not allowed to sit at the table with the voting members of the subcommittee and are not allowed to speak. They can only watch the proceedings — essentially giving them no role at all.
However, when Rep. Andy Josephson took over for Rep. Bryce Edgmon during Thursday’s subcommittee meeting on the Department of Environmental Conservation’s budget, he was allowed to sit in as a voting member, since Edgmon was trying to leave town. Josephson is in the Democrat majority, but not on the subcommittee. It’s a rule violation that was brought to the attention of the committee by Rep. George Rauscher, who said he had never seen that done before — the plug-and-play of a legislator who was not a voting member of the subcommittee.
Watch the committee meeting here as the double-standard is revealed by Rauscher:
The rule that co-chair Rep. Sara Hannan cited allows the majority to, indeed, slide in any of its Finance Committee members if there is an absence on a subcommittee of a member of the majority. That way the Democrats can ensure that no alternate Republicans will ever be allowed to sit at the table.
The spending continues until the voters finally get a clue
So probably forever.
All the Republican elected Senators and Representatives need to be expelled from the State Party and not receive any funding to run. I am tired of voting for Republicans who are traitors to the party. Each year we elect majorities in each chamber only to have the traitors give the power to the Democrats. Why vote or give money to any Republican only let the Democrats run the State.
All comes down to a weak spineless Alaskan GOP. They allow this to happen.
Thanks Governor……..
Thanks for cleaning up those voter rolls
Bare-knuckle politics. But we all know that flipping the sides – substitute Republican for Democrat in this piece – and the article could read the same. It’s sickening either way. Because in the end, us common folk lose. Spitting in the face of people who have a different opinion isn’t government, and eye-gouging isn’t politics. It may help sell newspapers or fire up online blogs, but it leaves us with nothing else but hate.
How do we try to fix it – if at all? A start might be to take more care about who we elect. Again, on both sides of the aisle.
When you are in the Minority that’s life.
Republicans and their supporters need some serious self reflection on how a party with half the membership continues to run circles around them strategically and continue to run the legislature. Balloons, purity tests and getting wrapped up in meaningless social issues doesn’t seem to be working.
Double standard is the Democrat’s mantra. They accuse Republicans, often without evidence, for the crimes and ethics violations that they commit. But under Trump, that standards are equal and enforceable. Democrats beware!!!!
You will be investigated, prosecuted, and punished for your standards.