Tonight I attended a political meeting with several legislators discussed some of the events for the 2015 events. These are the notes I took. Any inaccuracies are my fault.
Panel: Legislation Session 2015: with Sen. Margaret Dayton, Mike Kennedy, Alvin Jackson, and Sen. Brian Green
The legislature officially meets one time a year, but throughout the year they come up and spend two or three days discussing perspective deals and become familiar with what’s going to be presented at the main meeting.
Margaret Dayton: She has two goals 1. Support the Constitution. 2. Support traditional family. Thomas Jefferson quotes, “when people feel government. You have tyranny on governments fears the people you have liberty. She is happy that the legislator passed the bill for students had to take citizen tests. She invites us to take that same test.
Brian Greene District 57: some laws do not support citizen liberties. But they get enacted in increments. One example is the seatbelt law. First it was presented that children should be in seatbelts. Parents accept it because kids can make their own decisions. Second, seatbelt requirement is considered a secondary offense. No seatbelts can be ticketed when someone is pulled up for a different reason. The third phase, where the liberties are restricted even further in the sample size for own good to have the seatbelts and people who are called out the seatbelts have to pay $30 or take an educational course. In the next couple years will be the lot to have mandatory seatbelts for adults.
Mark Kennedy: syndication with the legislature can be compared to a realtor, home seller and the buyer. The realtor is similar to those who want to push certain things into law. Like a realtor. They don’t want the homeowner and the homebuyer to communicate. Don’t let bureaucracy be a voice for you.
Q&A: bill 296. Only about 10 legislators voted against the bills (gay rights) and Bill 297. (Religious liberty) the Constitution was to protect you from the government. The government is getting more and more power on dictating what you can do. Now you have to ask what they don’t control. Bills introduced to the legislature have good points and bad points. The legislators will often see the good points, and not given enough attention to the bad points. With the passage of the gay rights, gays are designated a special protection class.
Article 5 of the Constitution discusses the constitutional convention. Failure against the bill occurred because not enough conservatives in the legislator. Sometimes when legislators are not certain of how to vote, consider the feedback from their constituents.
The LDS church provided public pressure. They did so by having a media conference was to apostles visiting the legislator. The individual members were not approached or given pressure. The people who will benefit the most from certain bills are the ones that applaud those bills when they were approved.
HR J7 was moved forward by Gov. Rosic a guest speaker. The speech/visit was to pressure a positive vote. The members gather together about 2 to 3 days each month to review upcoming bills. People can view the session of the legislator meets 2 to 3 days a month by going to the following website LE.Utah.gov. It will tell about the bill and who the sponsors are etc.
The two biggest times make influences upon legislators is right after the election is the most susceptible to the voice of the people and the last week of the session. For example, the gas bill was passed at 11:49 PM.
The military will be conducting military practice during the summer in Utah, Texas and other states which many people object to. Texas has responded by having their operations monitored by the state military. It’s recommended that you encourage our Utah Gov. to do the same thing
– Look up infowars.com
– The NSA originally came from a program called trailblazer and acquired $4 billion to begin.
