Glockster30
NES Member
I'm not content to sit and wait for the next session of the legislature in 2017 or wait 2-5 years for lawsuits to run their course.
The governor has the authority to call the legislature back into a special session. The legislature can also call themselves back into special session. Instead of just sitting around wondering what we can do next, why don't we start bombarding the governor's office and the legislators demanding that they return to a special session and address the overreach of the AG.
They can start with Senator's Bruce Tarr's legislation (strip the AG of her power over gun regulations) "An Act to Protect Due Process and Strengthen Public Safety" that DeLeo wouldn't allow prior to the session that ended on 7/31.
http://goal.org/Documents/healey-2016/An-Act-To-Protect-Due-Process.pdf
Fifty percent of the states representatives are already on record as supporting Tarr's bill. I don't recall the number of senator's that supported it.
The governor and the legislature work for us, The People, and not the other way around, so let's start demanding that they address our issue with the AG. If the legislature still decides that this should be settled in court, that means that they can also repeal the AG's edict and wait until it is resolved one way or the other in court.
There is no logical reason why they need to hold us hostage with regard to Due Process until the courts decide on this, not to mention that it is most likely illegal for them to do so since the AG has no legislative power to reinterpret constitutional laws already passed by the legislature.
We should also remind the governor and the legislature that millions of dollars of tax payers' money is going to be spent by the AG defending lawsuits that will be filed on many fronts for no reason other than to try and further her own political aspirations.
I'm sure that there will be a number of "nattering nabob's of negativism" (Spiro Agnew is famous for something) that will respond to this, but let's discuss it anyway.
The governor has the authority to call the legislature back into a special session. The legislature can also call themselves back into special session. Instead of just sitting around wondering what we can do next, why don't we start bombarding the governor's office and the legislators demanding that they return to a special session and address the overreach of the AG.
They can start with Senator's Bruce Tarr's legislation (strip the AG of her power over gun regulations) "An Act to Protect Due Process and Strengthen Public Safety" that DeLeo wouldn't allow prior to the session that ended on 7/31.
http://goal.org/Documents/healey-2016/An-Act-To-Protect-Due-Process.pdf
Fifty percent of the states representatives are already on record as supporting Tarr's bill. I don't recall the number of senator's that supported it.
The governor and the legislature work for us, The People, and not the other way around, so let's start demanding that they address our issue with the AG. If the legislature still decides that this should be settled in court, that means that they can also repeal the AG's edict and wait until it is resolved one way or the other in court.
There is no logical reason why they need to hold us hostage with regard to Due Process until the courts decide on this, not to mention that it is most likely illegal for them to do so since the AG has no legislative power to reinterpret constitutional laws already passed by the legislature.
We should also remind the governor and the legislature that millions of dollars of tax payers' money is going to be spent by the AG defending lawsuits that will be filed on many fronts for no reason other than to try and further her own political aspirations.
I'm sure that there will be a number of "nattering nabob's of negativism" (Spiro Agnew is famous for something) that will respond to this, but let's discuss it anyway.