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Byzantine and scattered out, state legislators still ride the same elevators as everyone else, still walk from the Capitol to the General Assembly building with everyone else and can be visited casually in their offices where they might be wolfing down a sandwich before scurrying off to the next committee meeting.
Simply put, we still have a parttime citizen legislature composed of people who spend most of their time at home earning a living in various occupations. They make laws in Virginia an average of seven weeks or so a year in Richmond; and even when they’re legislating, mingle freely with anyone who happens to be around for the proceedings on any
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