Icet retaliating after being exposed

Budget Chair Allen Icet (R-Wildwood) is in a grumpy mood.  I guess I would be too if I'd been called out for making all sorts of bogus budget promises and making ridiculously lame excuses for denying health care to struggling families.

So logically, Icet took out his frustration on other legislators:

Two noncontroversial bills from Rep. Rachel Bringer, D-Palmyra, didn’t get heard Tuesday night in the House Rules Committee, even though the bills were on the schedule.

Bringer said it’s because of the amendment she sponsored that morning that would codify Gov. Jay Nixon’s latest health care proposal.

Budget Chairman Allen Icet said he wouldn’t consider her amendment, which would allow hospital providers to pay a higher rate, until he heard from the providers. But when their lobbyist showed up, Icet didn’t speak to him.

Bringer said she heard from other Democrats, including Minority Floor Leader Paul LeVota, and ranking Rules Committee Democrat Mike Talboy, that because of the amendment, the Rules Committee will kill her bills until Icet  and other Republican leaders say differently.