Weighing in at 260 pages of nightmarish complexity, House Bill 441 was launched too late, wobbled badly in hearings and was finally carried out on a stretcher while the governor and other politicians acted like the public outcry was just a simple misunderstanding. They pledged to go around the state now and “listen.”
Translation: It’s going to get an IV placed and come roaring back in special session.
I won’t question why the bill had large exceptions for special interests, was promoted by simplistic analysis and floated by overinflated rafts of political sloganeering. No. Others have already done that.