Engler Concerned GOP Senate Colleagues Will Be Extra Insane This Year
Senate Majority Leader Kevin Engler [R-Farmington] also is bracing for trouble. Eight of the 10 senators term-limited in 2010 are Republicans. Of the 10 additional senators term-limited in 2012, seven of them also are Republicans.
"Over half my majority is term-limited, and most of them aren't running for higher office, so they have no responsibility to the voters," said Engler, R-Farmington. "Some things that would be tempered before will not be tempered now, because their objective is, 'So what? You sure don't care what the public thinks. I can kill everything if I want, because I'm not up for election."
The idea of Republican Senators being even less "tempered" in their obstructionism and extremism gives me the heebie-jeebies.
The eight term-limited GOP Senators are Matt Bartle, Norma Champion, Dan Clemens, John Griesheimer, Gary Nodler, Delbert Scott, Charlie Shields and Carl Vogel. Democratic Senators Joan Bray and Rita Heard Days are also term-limited.
