Out of Bounds
February 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm by Jim Shella under Jim Shella's Political Blog
Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville) created a buzz and earned a rebuke from the Speaker with his speech during the budget debate in the Indiana House.
Brown said that the unusual one year budget proposal would permit a new budget in an election year and, with it, the opportunity for the majority Democrats to garner more campaign contributions. Said Brown, “A vote for this budget is a vote for pay-to-play.”
Minority Leader Brian Bosma, from his seat, said loudly that the comments were not endorsed by Republican Leadership. House Speaker Pat Bauer took to the mike to lecture Brown saying, “You are not to impugn the ethics of any member!”
Tags: Brian Bosma, Pat Bauer, Tim Brown
While not quite the same but there were a few interesting comments by Mr. Bauer when the mike was open concerning (believe) some comments by one of his fellow Democrats shows again –be very careful around microphones.
Sounds like some people are protesting too much.
Sounds like we need a strict and almost overly harsh new set of ethics laws for state and local government.