Legislature should quit, minimize damage

They say your life and property are never safe while the legislature is in session. Here's one legislator who agrees.

State Rep. Mark Pocan says:

The only thing we do know is that the sooner the legislature rests completely, the less damage that can occur. After a session of attempts at banning birth control, allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions, allowing hidden guns, banning stem cell research and letting eight-year-olds hunt, we certainly can only do better by not working.

If we actually did our jobs, the agendas this week would be slated with the Ethics Reform Bill (SB-1), health care proposals and other bills that actually help people.

Instead, this continually dysfunctional legislature can only pass politically-charge legislation with the intent to influence the fall elections. In other words, the legislative goal of the GOP majority is to get re-elected so that we can pass more bills that get us re-elected, rather than bills that actually help Wisconsin's working families.

Hasn't the public had enough yet?

UPDATE: State Rep. Jennifer Shilling says the 100th state rep, a guy named Tom Foolery, makes everyone look bad.