Rep. Pricey Harrison provides some interesting insight into the legislative process when hashing out costly environmental mandates such as the Jordan Lake Rules:
“On every one of these bills, we’ve reached a compromise,” said Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, who has a reputation of being a strong environmental advocate.
Harrison said that while the stakeholder meetings are open to the public, legislators rarely attend.
“It seems to hinder the process to have us in the room,” Harrison said.
She said that legislators often don’t know the science or technology involved in piecing together a compromise.
“The point is, we kind of know where we want to go; it’s a matter of getting there,” Harrison said. “If the parties that are in contention can work out their differences, I don’t think it’s a bad process.”
Pretty much sums up environmental policy these days, eh?
Meanwhile, Alamance County Rep. Cary Allred says he doesn’t “see the point in pussyfooting around and trying to schmooze everybody” considering the fact that his Democratic colleagues “are more likely to compromise with the environmental radicals.”
