Quote of the day: Legislative quackery

Alfred Doblin provides us with today’s offering, from a column on the state Legislature’s busy agenda on its final day in session before new members are sworn in:

It’s puzzling why the last weeks of legislative sessions are called “lame duck.” Does any legislative body have the inside track on not being lame the rest of the year?

That is a question for the ages.

South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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