Republican state senators have asked that SB 228, which would repeal Arveschoug-Bird, to be read at length.
That’s no little request – the bill is 38 pages. It’s now (as of 11:26) at a half-hour and somewhere in the first dozen pages. This is the second delaying tactic employed by the Senate Republicans – the first was to ask for a division vote on doing a second reading debate, which is very rare.
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Sen. Kopp halted the reading after 40 minutes and 33 of the 38 pages.
Not at all that rare. But the reading at length is indeed.
A division vote on a second reading is not rare, that’s true. My point is that they had a division vote on WHETHER to have a second reading on the bill. That’s very rare – and in 11 years of closely following the legislature I’ve never seen it before.
It’s a bill that passed out of committee, that was heard on second reading as all bills are. They did press on it, and were proud of it – no surprise.
Because it had nothing to do with the content of the post. The original title implied that Democrats were doing a “midnight gerrymandering.”
It wasn’t that the Dems were doing midnight gerrymandering; it was that the Republicans were pulling some of the same delaying tactics on this bill that the Dems tried with the midnight gerrymander a few years ago. And the Republicans aren’t done on this by a far stretch – they promise more of the same on Monday.