The N&R’s Mark Binker checks in with Triad freshman legislators, gauging their goals, expectations and disappointments.

Davidson County Rep. Rayne Brown said she “particularly wanted to put a constitutional amendment before the voters that would require lawmakers to seek voter approval before undertaking any borrowing…..The amendment would end so-called Certificates of Participation, which are a way around constitutional requirements that all state debt be voter approved.”

Like the municipal broadband bill, I’m sure local politicians would view this bill as more legislative micromanagement. But since excessive government borrowing —–voter-approved, that is —- caused the mess we’re in right now, does it not make sense to do away with non-voter-approved borrowing?