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So for people who don't understand how government works: The governor does not create legislation, they simply sign or veto legislation the legislative branch
by olliej 3y ago
So for people who don't understand how government works:
The governor does not create legislation, they simply sign or veto legislation the legislative branch passes.
Another thing the story doesn't acknowledge: the donor in question just owns a lot of fast food franchises, including non-Panera ones.
Let's be clear, it's very suspicious to me that this story is suddenly getting a lot of coverage but not stating the origin of the exemption.
But the other thing is billionaires donate a lot of money to many politicians, hell non-billionaires donate a lot of money to many politicians. Given the gross excess of donations in US politics I feel you could create more or less any conspiracy or corruption story you want to for almost any legislator and legislation combo you like.
- akira2501 3y ago> The governor does not create legislation The governor is NOT ENTITLED to create legislation. That doesn't mean it's somehow physically unrealizable in our universe for him to draft the law and then submit it to the legislative branch and for them to "rubber stamp" it.
- trts 3y agothe number of people saying this in this thread is what feels inorganic to me. what created this era where people are eager to come to the defense of incumbents? what's wrong is wrong; this isn't good policy. someone reported on it, people are finding out and they don't like it.
- coolspot 3y agoYeah, top comment is also sus. Are there HN upvoting/downvoting farms?
- olliej 3y agobecause people are responding to the sudden surge of this one story, so keep seeing exactly the same near identical story from multiple different sources on multiple different sites, so have have already gotten tired of the same BS everywhere. As far as I can make out this piece of (still BS) legislation was present for independent bakeries, and that happens to also cover outlets like Panera. But people who own multiple franchises have lots of money so make large political donations, and they own a bunch of businesses so a pile of legislation in notoriously anti-worker US laws eventually benefit them. This was my point: if you want to, you will find a donor that benefits from a law that someone they donated to has signed.