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Good Vibrations at the General Assembly
By AA | 1/23/2008 | Assembly Anonymous

Whew! Assembly Anonymous nearly blushed when Sen. Tommy Norment thanked Sen. Louise Lucas for “vibrating me twice—that’s the most excitement I’ve had today!”

The senator from Williamsburg arrived to appear before the Senate Local Government Committee when he had a cell phone call—well, a vibrate. That’s how legislators get called to present their bills these days. AA doesn’t have his cell phone number or we’d pass it on so the senator could have even more excitement!

Perennial pony-tailed lobbyist Roy Scherer was minus his flower pot containing pot. Scherer has long pushed for relaxed marijuana laws. To demonstrate something (AA isn’t sure what), challenge the cops, or maybe share his weed, Scherer has sometimes arrived at the GA with a budding marijuana plant.
This week, though, he touted the importance of being able to carry a gun.

Which reminds Anonymous of LAST YEAR. We all remember the importance of not getting shot by a gun-totin’ delegate in the General Assembly building.

Oh, those mean Republican Grinches. The Dems sold out their $175 tickets to the annual Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner the day after they went on sale. AA is told they were just having a bit of fun in the House Tuesday when the GOP voted to ban Party fund raising during the legislative session. They even put an EMERGENCY CLAUSE on the legislation to make it effective immediately.

With all those $175 tickets purchased for the sold out JJ Day dinner, AA hopes the Republicans were just having fun.

College of William and Mary lobbyists are NOT having fun in the halls of the GAB. After finally getting the cross issue out of the news, now there’s the Sex Workers/Art Show featuring porn stars, strippers and monologues (The Vagina ones?) to deal with.

It’s hard to get legislators much interested in the proposed higher ed bonds when W&M President Nichols has yet to give the green light for the Sex show.

Will he or won’t he? After the cross battle, the embattled W&M president finds himself in a sticky spot again.

Anonymous simply can’t imagine the flood of MOM mail the poor prez is getting.

Forget the sex show. Time for vibrator calls to Sen. Norment! After all, he represents William and Mary.

2 Responses to “Good Vibrations at the General Assembly”

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Roy B. Scherer Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 2:17 am

Gee, AA, I’m flattered to have been recognized — my fifteen minutes was up long ago.

I should correct you on one point, and explain another, though.

First, that “pot plant in the Capitol” thing happened only once, in the seventies. I wasn’t arrested for having “arrived at the GA with a budding marijuana plant”, but for carrying a plant WHICH HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME BY A MEMBER OF THE CAPITOL POLICE. It’s a long story, but suffice it to say that I was acquitted of all charges in Circuit Court, on the what-I-wish-had-set-a-precedent grounds that the judge “didn’t believe that [I] meant any harm by having the plant.”

Second, there’s no disconnect here. I believe that we should each have the maximum amount of freedom, so long as we do no harm to others. As a necessary corollary to that, I believe that we must each take responsibility for our actions and their consequences. Drugs, and guns, and for that matter sex and rock’n'roll are all part of that. The word is freedom, and the philosophy is libertarian.

BTW, I send out an email report to anyone interested in Capitol happenings as seen from my admittedly narrow viewpoint. If by any chance you or your readers would like to be added to the BCC list, just drop me a note. I don’t blog, but the reports are online. I should warn you that the writing is pretty straightforward — I ain’t got no litry ambishuns.


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Roy B. Scherer Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

Well, I see that the software stripped out my email address, and the website where my comments are posted.
Here they are again, in a more acceptable form.
To request to be placed on the BCC list for my reports: rscherer AT infionline DOT net
To view posts online: www DOT richmondliberty DOT org
– Roy


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