Give 'em time

I figure this is what the Wisconsin Constitution would look like if we gave the current legislators a few more cracks at it.

In a few hours, Rep. Frank Lasee (R-Bellevue) will introduce yet another version of TABOR. And while he is promising a version that is less complicated than what Sen. Glenn Grothman and Rep. Jeff Wood introduced, the version Lasee introduced in the 1999 session was about eight pages long.

This really has become a joke at this point. There is almost no way now the legislature can come out of this looking good or doing any good either. Is it wise to pass a constitutional amendment that is cobbled together at the last minute? Anyone up for election later this year should be suspect of any lengthy proposal that they can't explain fully to their voters.

If the legislators keep this up, their constituents might demand to be allowed to vote on pay raises for legislators again. Every time that went to the ballot it was shot down. Then the legislators got wise and decided they should set their own pay instead of letting the public decide if they were worthy of a raise. I'm guessing the current batch of legislators would be turned down for a raise if they asked.

At the rate they are going, many might be turned down on their request to be hired again in the fall.