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"To vote or not to vote?," is the title of Eric Hartley's latest column in Annapolis' The Capital. A quick lesson on how Annapolis works: I called state Sen. Brian Frosh the other day to gauge his thoughts on a compromise aimed at getting full Senate votes on two controversial bills stuck in the Judicial Proceedings Committee, which he chairs.Frosh was very skeptical and explained to me why he doesn't like to let some bills - the anti-gay-marriage proposal soothingly titled the "Defense of Marriage Act," for example - out of his committee.Because they might pass."We get a lot of silly bills people don't want to vote against," said Frosh, D-Montgomery. "They'd rather the chair put it in a drawer...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).