Get happy!
Sen. Curt Bramble was introducing the bill closest to his heart, SB196 -- a fundamental restructuring of redevelopment law.
When Bramble, chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee, pointedly asked a State School Board representative if the education community was satisfied with the measure,the bureaucrat decided to try for an 11th-hour revision of the bill, something minor that already had been rejected twice in negotiations.
After two year's consensus building that involved actually being diplomatic that was not what Bramble wanted to hear.
The senator is well known for his "intensity." Countless citizens, Democrats, reporters and even Republican colleagues have had their shortcomings publicly dissected by "Brambo." And that's the happy Mother Teresa Curt.
This was a very unhappy Bramble. He didn't move. He didn't blink. It was like looking at Mount St. Helens on a sunny day --- only no birds are singing and there's a wisp of steam coming out the top.
"I'm pulling this bill," Bramble said, staring a hole through the bureaucrat. "We will bring it back when public education is ready to take a position."
Sen. Greg Bell knew something real bad was happening, "Uh, I don't have a program here . . ."
Finally, the bureaucrat got it too. He immediately got on the cell to the powers in the State School Board.
Reports that education officials later prostrated themselves before the chairman are not true. At the end of the meeting, however, the miserable bureaucrat assured Bramble that state education administrators were delighted with the measure and State School Board members would be contacted at home over the weekend and would voice support of the bill.
Then a parade of assorted education and local government representatives expressed how sublime they found Bramble's redevelopment proposal.
Only then did the Provo Senator allow SB196 to pass -- unanimously.
--Glen Warchol
When Bramble, chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee, pointedly asked a State School Board representative if the education community was satisfied with the measure,the bureaucrat decided to try for an 11th-hour revision of the bill, something minor that already had been rejected twice in negotiations.
After two year's consensus building that involved actually being diplomatic that was not what Bramble wanted to hear.
The senator is well known for his "intensity." Countless citizens, Democrats, reporters and even Republican colleagues have had their shortcomings publicly dissected by "Brambo." And that's the happy Mother Teresa Curt.
This was a very unhappy Bramble. He didn't move. He didn't blink. It was like looking at Mount St. Helens on a sunny day --- only no birds are singing and there's a wisp of steam coming out the top.
"I'm pulling this bill," Bramble said, staring a hole through the bureaucrat. "We will bring it back when public education is ready to take a position."
Sen. Greg Bell knew something real bad was happening, "Uh, I don't have a program here . . ."
Finally, the bureaucrat got it too. He immediately got on the cell to the powers in the State School Board.
Reports that education officials later prostrated themselves before the chairman are not true. At the end of the meeting, however, the miserable bureaucrat assured Bramble that state education administrators were delighted with the measure and State School Board members would be contacted at home over the weekend and would voice support of the bill.
Then a parade of assorted education and local government representatives expressed how sublime they found Bramble's redevelopment proposal.
Only then did the Provo Senator allow SB196 to pass -- unanimously.
--Glen Warchol
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