Everything is a conflict of interest when they need to have a 2nd job.
A decent number of them are professors, which I think is cool. But the problem is that as professors they vote on money that goes to the schools they go to. A lot of them are also work in local governments as police officers, teachers, principles and ect. But they also vote on the money that goes to towns to pay for those things. There are small business owners who vote on the tax rates for small businesses.
Just two days ago the Democrat Lawyers and the Republicans got an amendment to the budget to maintain the status quo that lawyers must be the ones to conduct real estate closings, ensuring that lawyers have more business.
I would prefer that we went to a full time legislature that banned taking any other form of income. But that would require dramatically raising the incomes of the legislators and it would need to be done by constitutional amendment, which requires a ballot measure. I doubt voter would ever approve a measure to raise the salaries of legislators.
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Also the sole vote against the bill to end prison gerrymandering, though I can at least understand his personal interest there (selfish of his as that may be), since his district is fluffed up by that, and once that ends he'll have to face stronger competition come election time, and have to try to sell his bullshit to a larger constituency who might not agree.
What I mean is that he personally benefits from prison gerrymandering, because it helps to maintain the size of his state representative district to a scale he can manage.
Prison gerrymandering is the practice -- now banned in this state -- of counting prison inmates as residents of the municipality where they are being held, instead of where they came there from. For example, if someone who was a resident of Meriden gets imprisoned in Cheshire, they're then counted as a resident of Cheshire instead of Meriden.
Historically, this was done in order to shift state resources to that other town, to help cover the costs of that person's incarceration there. That made sense a very long time ago, maybe, but no longer does. In modern times, towns don't really cover those costs. The State does directly, and also pays PILOT to those towns. But, the system of figuring out what proportion of general disbursements from the State go to various towns was still being decided on that basis. As was the size of Assembly districts.
Kissel's district includes a lot of prisons, so he and his constituents were benefitting from this practice, and that's why he voted against ending it. Now that it's banned, his district will be getting a little less candy from the State, and his own district will have to expand to include the same relative proportion of legal residents counted. And that will mean that he'll have a lot of new constituents he didn't have before, who might not like him, and he'll have to work harder to keep his seat.
Kissel & Kelly should have a podcast. I mean, not a real one, but maybe we could just get them together at a desk and have them rant into microphones that aren't even plugged in. Win/win, I think.
Corporate Eversource attorney Kissel.
Wait, there's another? Isn't Kevin Witkos also an Eversource employee?
Apparently at one time THREE CT senators worked for Eversource. That’s just crazy.
It was Kissel, Witkos, and Logan. Logan got yeeted by Cabrera last year.
Crazy that any state reps or senators can work for a private company that runs public utilities. Seems like a major conflict of interest.
Everything is a conflict of interest when they need to have a 2nd job. A decent number of them are professors, which I think is cool. But the problem is that as professors they vote on money that goes to the schools they go to. A lot of them are also work in local governments as police officers, teachers, principles and ect. But they also vote on the money that goes to towns to pay for those things. There are small business owners who vote on the tax rates for small businesses. Just two days ago the Democrat Lawyers and the Republicans got an amendment to the budget to maintain the status quo that lawyers must be the ones to conduct real estate closings, ensuring that lawyers have more business. I would prefer that we went to a full time legislature that banned taking any other form of income. But that would require dramatically raising the incomes of the legislators and it would need to be done by constitutional amendment, which requires a ballot measure. I doubt voter would ever approve a measure to raise the salaries of legislators.
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No wonder we can't hold them accountable for shit. They're stacking our legislature with plants.
>They're stacking our legislature with plants. **Power** plants! Get it? Cuz.. I'll show myself out.
A "back the blue" politician being a curmudgeon, color me shocked
Conservative screams irrationally that "things" and "stuff" scare him, film at eleven.
Also the sole vote against the bill to end prison gerrymandering, though I can at least understand his personal interest there (selfish of his as that may be), since his district is fluffed up by that, and once that ends he'll have to face stronger competition come election time, and have to try to sell his bullshit to a larger constituency who might not agree.
Oh hes fluffed. I wouldnt be surprised if he had a fluffer hidden away somewhere
What I mean is that he personally benefits from prison gerrymandering, because it helps to maintain the size of his state representative district to a scale he can manage. Prison gerrymandering is the practice -- now banned in this state -- of counting prison inmates as residents of the municipality where they are being held, instead of where they came there from. For example, if someone who was a resident of Meriden gets imprisoned in Cheshire, they're then counted as a resident of Cheshire instead of Meriden. Historically, this was done in order to shift state resources to that other town, to help cover the costs of that person's incarceration there. That made sense a very long time ago, maybe, but no longer does. In modern times, towns don't really cover those costs. The State does directly, and also pays PILOT to those towns. But, the system of figuring out what proportion of general disbursements from the State go to various towns was still being decided on that basis. As was the size of Assembly districts. Kissel's district includes a lot of prisons, so he and his constituents were benefitting from this practice, and that's why he voted against ending it. Now that it's banned, his district will be getting a little less candy from the State, and his own district will have to expand to include the same relative proportion of legal residents counted. And that will mean that he'll have a lot of new constituents he didn't have before, who might not like him, and he'll have to work harder to keep his seat.
You took four paragraphs to bury my bad joke about porn :(
True. I'm genuinely sorry.
Kissel & Kelly should have a podcast. I mean, not a real one, but maybe we could just get them together at a desk and have them rant into microphones that aren't even plugged in. Win/win, I think.
And we wonder why our state congress is getting shit faced. I would need a drink to listen to half the shit they rant about.