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Originally Posted by dogzilla
So how long should they allow debate? 600 hours? At some point it's time to move on and hold the vote.
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Well, I'm not about to pull out some abstract number, but it should be expected to debate for as long as required to ensure all have had a chance to be heard. From what I've read, there were Democrats queued for commenting when the GOP decided to spring the vote on them, and it was over in a flash. Bad timing, and it looks like strong-arming.
I don't expect them to debate
ad nausem, but this is clearly a big issue for the state, and if everyone has a say in it, then everyone should have their say, especially for something that includes conditions that have specious support outside of the Assembly GOP. It would seem that they would rather just have it over with and get their way. Better do it soon, or they might lose too much public support. Politics can be messy like that. That meddlesome public.
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It's also time for the members of hte party of NO to demand that their Senators return from hiding and vote on this bill.
Either that or the governor should declare their seats vacant and hold new elections since the current Senators are unwilling to do their job.
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The senate thing is another issue. The whole thing has become messy.
A question (to anyone): There was a fairly recent ruling in a top Canadian court that considered collective bargaining a right protected by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms*. Is there a similar defense of it under any American document, including, but not limited to, the Constitution?
*The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to the Canadian Constitution much in the way the Bill of Rights is to the United States Constitution.