| Last month, I embarked on an ambitious project counting down the top 10 defining votes of the Nebraska Legislature's 2009 session. After perhaps delving a little too deeply in the first four articles in that series, I quickly exhausted myself and escaped back into the easier and more comfortable terrain of following the latest political headlines. Almost a month later, I regret that choice because our state is literally starving for independent, in-depth coverage of our Unicameral - especially from a progressive viewpoint.
Well, here I am committing myself once again to completing this project. I hope readers will understand if the remaining entries in the countdown don't go quite so in-depth as those that preceded them. Ideally, those votes deemed the most defining should receive the most coverage, but such demands on my time and concentration would almost certainly guarantee that I never complete the series or that I reach the top of the list just in time for the 2010 session to begin. Rather than dragging things out like that, let's just see if we can get this thing over while the stories behind the 2009 session are still somewhat fresh in our minds.
In case you needed a bit of a refresher, here's where we'd left things on the countdown:
#10 - Rejecting Scott Lautenbaugh's Assault On State's Campaign Finance System
#9 - Buckling To Gov. Heineman's Veto Threat Over Lancaster County Judgeship
#8 - Adopting Lethal Injection As New And Improved Method Of Execution
#7 - Choosing Modest Immigration Reform That Protects Educational Opportunities For Children
And now, coming in as the sixth most defining vote of the 2009 Legislature, I present to you..... |
