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Honesty evidently is a great tradition in Lansing. “I’m on both sides of the law enforcement issue,” said Sen. Jack Toepp. Said a colleague: “We’re not setting a precedent here today if we lie.” In the 1979 session, Rep. Frank Wiersbicki provided a reminder for orators everywhere: “Before I give you the benefit of my remarks,” he said, “I’d like to know what we’re talking about.”
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Michigan isn’t the only state in which legislators get tangled in their remarks. In Baton Rouge a few years ago, a Louisiana lawmaker loudly opposed a bill for the benefit of dependent children:'“To hell with posterity!” he cried. “What’s posterity ever done for us?”
The AP struck another blow for incoherence in a roundup of com
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