Question: I understand what a striker bill is but I don’t understand how it chooses which bill to delete, and so much more. Doesn’t it piss off the first bill to get deleted for a bill no one voted for and does it have to be the same party deleting the bill that gets the new bill? I’m completely curiously confused.
To summarize, a striker is usually used to turn a noncontroversial (or relatively trivial) bill into something controversial. Sometimes, lawmakers run bills for the sole purpose of later becoming a striker.
Thanks that was really my question, is it strategic? Do they get together (like mice eating a chunk of cheese, I have this imagination) and strategize? Huh, seems devious and petty, but what do I know?
Unfortunately there is just about no news value to Gallego following the money instead of his voters, he does it so often. He appears to be just the latest in an unfortunate cabal of lawmakers who vote republican but have figured out that if they sell themselves right ( read:lie) they can get the bluest precincts in pima county to work their butts off and add to a ( in name only) "democratic" win.
Question: I understand what a striker bill is but I don’t understand how it chooses which bill to delete, and so much more. Doesn’t it piss off the first bill to get deleted for a bill no one voted for and does it have to be the same party deleting the bill that gets the new bill? I’m completely curiously confused.
That's a great question! We wrote all about strikers in this edition: https://www.arizonaagenda.com/p/the-daily-agenda-bill-bait-and-switch
To summarize, a striker is usually used to turn a noncontroversial (or relatively trivial) bill into something controversial. Sometimes, lawmakers run bills for the sole purpose of later becoming a striker.
Thanks that was really my question, is it strategic? Do they get together (like mice eating a chunk of cheese, I have this imagination) and strategize? Huh, seems devious and petty, but what do I know?
Unfortunately there is just about no news value to Gallego following the money instead of his voters, he does it so often. He appears to be just the latest in an unfortunate cabal of lawmakers who vote republican but have figured out that if they sell themselves right ( read:lie) they can get the bluest precincts in pima county to work their butts off and add to a ( in name only) "democratic" win.