Truly the ONLY thing a legislator has to do is create and pass a budget. I would expect the leadership from the other parties to minimize my role and hope for the best. I wouldn't get to pick my committee assignments anyway, you take what you get. We have real problems in the state from road funding, education and healthcare.and how we're going to pay for it. It would take 5 emails to figure that one out. I wonder how many committee meetings it took to say yes to that one. Really? What a great idea, a real NO BRAINER and of course it got signed into law in a bipartisan way. Most of the "bipartisan" legislation is on small insignificant stuff like putting an ability identifier on a state ID which recently got signed into law. If I were in Lansing I'd like to tackle big problems. Much of the discussion and debate is likely a waste of time. I think most of the committee work is a law makers paperwork shuffle. What she said was interesting and I wanted to know more. She was in a segment talking about the history of policing and they plugged her book. I heard her in a piece on one of my favorite NPR shows called "On The Media". I'd recommend the Elizabeth Hinton book especially to people who don't think they know much about policing which is in the news lately. I've also heard from a literary junky friend that Ayn Rand is a terrible writer. Most Libertarians or Republicans would dog whistle Ayn Rand but I haven't read her. Because I have a technical structured mind those are the books that interest me. It's kind of technical, covers a lot of history prior to when I was born and basically shows how policing has gone from Andy Griffith to Storm Trooper through multiple administrations both Democrat and Republican. I'm listening to a book titled: "From the ward on poverty to the war on crime: The making of mass incarceration in America" by Elizabeth Hinton. I just started listening to digital books as I commute for work. I learned form him also to be generous and forgiving in my own business. He was generous and had every right to do so. I don't know what that pan cost but he didn't take it out of my pay. I think he initially got upset because he was under a lot of pressure in the restaurant business and watching every penny counts. It's a fond memory and taught me that hard work doing the wrong thing without the right information can be detrimental. I thought it was dirty and I scrubbed that pan long and hard to get all that Teflon off of the pan thinking it was crusted over from cooking and perhaps burning food.I failed but I made a huge dent! He later apologized and we laughed. He got angry at me and explained what an expensive pan that was. I ruined an expensive pan with Teflon and the owner who's now passed on, was quite upset. I rode my bike to work on some weeknights and weekends and it was mainly a summer gig. I got an opportunity for that gig when I was 13 or 14 maybe. My first paycheck type job was a dishwasher at a restaurant by my home called The Bavarian Inn. She taught me how to laugh and I inherited my sense of humor from her! She too was a life long entrepreneur and business woman with varying degrees of success but always found enjoyment in life. As a side, I look up to my mother, her legacy and her hard work and determination never giving up. It helps me put things into a different perspective rather than getting one sided and agenda driven. I think I'm as reasonable and follow their examples both on the left and right. It was a different time and discourse was in a different place. I also love "classical liberals" like Milton Friedman. I emailed Renk and Mike the other week in fact, Mike replied! I love and look up to the old conservatives like William F Buckley Jr and Thomas Sowell. I often catch a guy name Renk and sometimes a guy fills in for him named Mike Gallagher. On the right I can't say I "enjoy" listening to it but I do and I listen to my local right winger station 95.3 WBCK FM talk radio when I want to get their take on pop culture. Although I don't always agree with them I appreciate their perspective. I look up to people like Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens and I read left winger rags like The Nation (I subscribe). Like consuming media from all avenues of the thought spectrum, left, right, center, radical, etc. When I was a kid I looked up to athletes, they were my heroes but as I aged and sports became less important to me probably because I grew out of the routine of caring about them, I found interest in intellectual things.
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