Lawmakers want to meddle in everything you do, but they protect each other.
By Steven Greenhut
http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/17/sacramento-sex-scandal-offers-lessons-ab/printThere are few areas of private life that California's legislators won't at least attempt to meddle
in, which makes it that much more infuriating when the Capitol crowd can't get its own house in order.
I'm thinking, of course, about the unfolding sexual-harassment scandal, and lawmakers' amazing efforts
to basically look the other way.
Nothing to see here, just keep moving on. Maybe, by the time lawmakers get back to work in January,
the whole mess will be off the news pages. Then they can go back to doing what they do best—regulating
and hectoring the rest of us. But, for now, the rest of us can at least learn some stellar lessons about
political hypocrisy.
One key lesson is that a lawmakers' publicly stated positions and posturing have little to do with how
they might handle any particular scandal . . .
