How can you be reasonably confident of a legislator’s integrity?
The acid test comes when he faces a showdown question.
Commonly, there are vast differences between our daily lives and the perks routinely enjoyed by legislators.
Is he willing to live under the same conditions he has been advocating for, and has helped impose on, his constituents?
Especially when those conditions are both mandated for the peasantry and still are regarded as experimental.
A sterling sample of legislators with two faces bobbed up the other afternoon in the state Assembly.
Since California’s 120 legislators are exempted from Obamacare, that did not seem fair to Scott Wilk, Republican Assemblyman from Santa Clarita.
Said Mr. Wilk: “I truly want to understand how the Affordable Care Act is working and being applied to our everyday life.
“There is no better way than to enroll in the (state exchange, Covered California) along with the people who elected us and share in the same benefits program.
“If the laws that Sacramento passes are good enough for our citizens, they should be good enough for elected officials to comply with as well.”
Keep in mind that from the hour Obamacare made its doddering, Hillary-like debut in October 2-13, all Democrats, no exceptions, tooted their bugles about the joys of Obamacare. This was the killer government program of the millennium, they boasted. Especially since they did not have to comply.
Mr. Wilk introduced Assembly Bill 1109 in February that would have replaced legislators’ health plans with plans only from Covered California starting next January.
Week before last, 1109 went before the Assembly Rules Committee.
It lost lopsidedly, 7-3, because every bugle-tooting Democrat voted no and every Republican voted yes.
The Orange County Register noted this morning that Democrats Richard Gordon of Los Altos and Ken Cooley of Rancho Cordova both voted no even though on their websites they chirped about the unprecedented benefits of Obamacare.
Another cloudy-minded Dem, rabbit-eared Autumn Burke of Inglewood winked to herself and voted no. Sadly, she inherited her mom’s ethics as well as her good looks .
Hopefully these three beauts won’t have their honesty tested in public until voters forget their most recent disgraceful snobbery.
