...and no one even noticed.
Well, that's not true. When we got pulled over yesterday for speeding through East Nowhere, Iowa, and couldn't find the registration card anywhere (turns out I had filed it thinking it was merely the receipt for my "tabs"), B. wondered if the records department of the MN state police had been shut down and therefore the IA officer wouldn't be able to verify that the car was registered. We had visions of the car's being impounded and us living by the side of the road in E. Nowhere, scrounging corn from farmers' fields, until the MN Legislature gets back to doing the work they were elected to do.*
Hence my Declaration of Independence. Regardless of their qualifications, I am not going to vote for any MN legislative incumbents in the next election. And not the governor, either (although I would never have voted for him anyway!). I realize that the legislative members are probably not equally responsible for the morass they've made, but nevertheless, they are all equally responsible to transcend the BS and get the work of government done.
If a majority did the same, then we could have a brand-new government. Can't be any worse than the current state of affairs!
*Evidently the records dept. is unaffected. The officer verified that the car was registered, and let us off with a warning. 42 in a 30-zone, indeed!
Posted by otto0114 at July 4, 2005 02:14 PM