By Peter Schorsch, SaintPetersBlog.com, SouthFloridaReporter.com, Dec. 29, 2015 – ‘Tis the season, and the Legislature’s dubious Christmas present this year was moving up the 2016 Legislative Session two months from its usual March start date.
We will no doubt have many gifts in store, besides the inevitable policy food fights, such as perhaps seeing some lawmakers in their ugly holiday sweaters (the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts “T-storms, then sunny, cold” for the first day of session).
Of course, there’s the Gay Pride Festivus pole, rainbow-colored with a disco ball on top, but that should be gone from the rotunda by Dec. 28. And you can’t take it home before then, anyway, or you risk the wrath of the Capitol Police.