Friday, April 10, 2009

Carrying your own water . . .

Jeff Woods of The Nashville Scene is calling out a state legislator for carrying a bill that would "help" his industry of home inspection Nashville Scene, "Pith in the Wind - Conflict of Interest? What's That?"):
Rep. Phillip Johnson, R-Pegram, is looking out for No. 1 in Nashville. He's a home inspector, and this session he's pushing two bills to help that business.
Though I can't find that rule anywhere (see House Rules here), it's not a bad idea.

Nevertheless, I guess it's safe to conclude Jeff Woods and Gary Moore would agree that lawyers in the House and Senate (Kent Coleman, Doug Overbey, Henry Fincher) have no business carrying legislation on behalf of the Tennessee Lawyers' Lobby?




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  1. The Sen.April 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    Look at the bills Moore is running.

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  2. nedApril 10, 2009 at 11:41 PM

    There's only one related to firefighters . . . then again, I'm not sure that proves anything, because Moore only recommended that Johnson would have been smarter to have found someone else to carry the bill--he didn't say it was unethical for Johnson to carry the bill.

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