Every one of us is a boss. We employ all the state employees and other public servants. We are all public landowners. We own the national parks, state parks and other public lands. It's the way of a democratic republic.
We should be good bosses and landowners. We need to respect the people who work for us. We need to respect our public lands and hand them down to our children and grandchildren in good condition.
Recently the ND Legislature has shown very little respect for our teachers and other public employees. They are telling teachers how to teach and what to teach. Our legislature meets only 80 days every two years, yet thinks it has the wisdom to dictate how the people trained to be in classrooms are supposed to teach 180 days every year. They think they have the right to tell our locally elected school boards how to do their jobs. The legislators have a bad case of marble and brass disease. They are too full of themselves and over-reach their authority.
My voice in the legislature is for restraint. I remind my colleagues of the limits of power, of the checks and balances that require respect for the other branches of government. I remind them of the Constitution.
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