WAKE UP,

EDITORIALISTS!

[May 11, 2004]

 I regularly scan the editorial pages of more than twenty Alabama newspapers. Lately, they seem to be like a choir, all singing off of the same page - weeping, wailing and lamenting the failure of our illustrious legislature to pass a few reform and accountability bills. In general, the bills mentioned are the same bills I, as well, would have wanted to pass

I am amazed that the learned editorial writers even hoped, much less expected, that any of these bills might be passed, since they, supposedly, are astute observers of the political scene.

Wake up, editorialists!

The most important bills to die in this session were two [HB88 and HB579] that were barely mentioned in state media, and certainly not emphasized as they should have been. Either bill would have provided the voters of this state with the ability to place real reform and accountability measures, which the legislature would not touch with a ten-foot pole, on ballots.

So, editorialists, instead of crying over spilled milk [if you are even, in fact, sincere in your lamentations] hang your heads in shame, and apologize to the citizens of Alabama for not doing your job by informing the public of the tremendous changes which could have occurred if either of these bills had not died, mainly unmentioned, and certainly under-publicized by you.

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