Spence: Boise’s ‘Theater of the Absurd’
In a column for the Lewiston Tribune today, William L. Spence comments on the silliness now occurring in the Idaho House:
What do you do when you read about the “Theater of the Absurd” and realize it describes your own life?
That actually sounds like a great plot for the kind of play that might make it to the stage.
For the record, I started boning up on the Theater of the Absurd well before Monday’s call of the House, when White Bird Rep. Priscilla Giddings objected to the common practice of suspending the reading of a bill.
The move forced a 90-minute delay in the floor proceedings while she read a 21-page bill aloud to her colleagues - on the scintillating topic of Idaho’s notary laws.
Afterward I asked Giddings if she was concerned about undermining her effectiveness in the Legislature. She objected to that as well, saying the question was slanted.
“I ran on a platform to uphold the Idaho Constitution. That’s all I did today,” she said.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t seem out of line to wonder if there might be better ways to sway the body. More here .
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