Sunday letters: Time for SC legislators to put away childish things

South Carolina had three priorities for the 2015 legislative session: road improvement, protection of women against domestic violence and meaningful ethics legislation. Legislators might act to protect women from some of the highest domestic violence rates in the nation. Might. But nothing has been accomplished on the others. We will keep driving on our antiquated roads; there will be no disclosure of outside influences on policy making.

It seems the Legislature can’t agree on who is king of the legislative hill. What the House has passed the Senate has rejected, and what the Senate has passed the House has rejected. It’s a standoff for the Legislature but a total loss for the citizens and a waste of our tax money.

I played king of the hill when I was a child. But of course when I was a child I acted as a child, I spoke as a child, and I reasoned as a child. When I became a man, I behaved as a man, because that’s what men are obligated to do.

Pinopolis

This story was originally published May 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM.