KEEPING VOTERS INTENTIONALLY IN THE DARK

[Psycho]

KEEPING VOTERS INTENTIONALLY IN THE DARK

 

 

 

Often when you read a proposed bill introduced by a member(s) of the DC City Council, the language is so vague that you wonder what they are really saying.

 

As a matter of fact, the bill(s) often in themselves do not lend to what the member(s) of the council say they are trying to achieve.

 

Each bill that the DC City Council has proposed often is not accompanied by a legislative intent and/or platform for execution so that voters can get into the mind of the council.

 

This vagueness leads voters who follow these bills to do a lot of guess work as to what is really intended, how far does it go, is it constitutional, is it Big Brother being too intrusive and so much more.

 

Case in point is, the District of Columbia Public Education Reform Amendment Act of 2007 is a forty eight (48) page bill that says a lot but in fact really says nothing, and in a very verbose manner seems designed more to bore and insult the intelligence of readers if not to confuse us more than its author already has.

 

The foregoing is liking to those old days when our religious leaders performed their services only in Hebrew or Latin as a means of keeping most ignorant of what they are doing and saying.

 

The DC City Council needs to start proposing legislation in a more coherent format that does more than say what the bill is intended for but illustrates to all concerned its intent, how the council proposes it should be effected and more before it becomes law.

 

When I was a young man, I use to on weekends act as the golf caddy for NY State Supreme Court Justice F.M. Gagilardi and he always told me that the art of being a good lawyer/legislator is routed in how well you can confuse and mislead the masses.

 

It is time that all legislation follow a user friendly format so voters can better follow what their local leaders are really attempting to do before they do it.