As the hijinks of the legislative and budget process lurches along, the "day-counts" are becoming a kind of interesting subplot…to me anyway.  Now, with all the conventions over and the bill deadline over, it now can become time for the media to focus on why the Republicans should give in to a tax increase.  Hey, everyone else is.  What I mean by the day-counts is that today is the 70th day since the June 30 fiscal year or "working deadline" came and went.  The latest budget ever was signed Sep. 5 so we have that record going for us, 70 and counting.

Then, counting down, for us legislators termed out this year, we have 79 days until we have to get our stuff out of our state offices, November 26 at 5 PM, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.   They want a couple days for the incoming crop to have their offices switched over, ready on the day of their swearing in Monday, Dec 1 at noon. 

Our terms are technically until November 30 at midnight [83 days] so I guess my constituents will have to call me or our staff by cell or at home for case work issues those last 4 days.  Or maybe they find a way to do without their state legislators for 4 days as perhaps they prefer instead to fall asleep watching football after a nice turkey dinner and get up at 4 AM next morn for that insane first day of Christmas shopping.  

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This entry was posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.