-- Arizona partisan politics has produced a peculiar habit: state legislators are allowed to gut a bill, called "strike everything", and substitute another bill into the framework, thus ending up with a completely different bill with the same number. So when independent Congressional candidate
Annie Loyd went to testify yesterday on a bill that the state Senate passed legislation by a 27-0 margin that would allow independents to vote in the contests, apparently
the state House frankly didn't give a damn. By the time Annie got there, the House had struck everything from this bill. No soup for you!
Here are 2 more examples of this practice:
- Add teeth, or pull bill aimed at self-promotion (East Valley Tribune Editorial) That plan couldn’t get even a committee hearing in the state Senate. So Waring used a “strike-everything” amendment to put his proposal on another bill that already had reached the House.
- It's back: Marriage proposal resurrected (Arizona Capitol Times)
