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When legislators ignore constituencies, they can pay a price. And I would call what happened yesterday to veterans organizations ignoring them.
Six veterans organizations had representatives there. The state employees who oversee veterans affairs were there. The only ones missing at the legislative briefing Monday were the state legislators.
Three of the nine senators on the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee who were no-shows had other appointments.
Sen. Jim Holley, D-Elba, had a doctor’s appointment. Sen. Zeb Little, D-Cullman, is a lawyer and had a court docket. And Sen. Ben Brooks, R-Mobile, is working on an insurance reform bill and opted to attend a regional meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners instead.
“If there was any way I could be both places,” Brooks said, “I would be.”
The other six senators — Republicans Larry Dixon and Henry Erwin and Democrats W.H. Lindsey, Hinton Mitchem, Quinton Ross Jr. and Wendell Mitchell — did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
Senators Dixon, Ross and Mitchell are all local, so their explanations will be particularly interesting to me.
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