Flawed Process = Flawed Result

When you do go visit ReformNY, you’ll be greeted by this fantastic piece of punditry:

Assembly Majority Leader Paul Tokasz on the hospital closing process: “A flawed process cannot result in anything but a flawed outcome.”

We couldn’t agree more Majority Leader Tokasz! Wouldn’t it be great to have a legislative process where there were actually hearings on major legislation that was destined to become law? Where a bill could be debated on the floor and brought to a vote even if the Speaker objected? Where conference committees were institutionalized, so there was a public airing of the differences between bills, rather than a closed-door resolution (or no resolution at all)?

Geez, people. I mean, whadda ya want? Mr. Smith goes to Albany?

I think it’s time that the Brennan Center reforms were more widely known. Now, it’s only people who are deeply interested in politics who have heard of them. We need Joe Sixpack to have heard of them and to call his legislators about them.

They need to become such a common topic that candidates for state Assembly and Senate regularly invoke them and try to out-do themselves with respect to their implementation.