The people in power in this state, are so deeply rooted in how they came to power, there is no chance of them being fired. Everyone in the state knows someone else, and that’s the basic reason they are even employed. Even pee-ons like us are hired on from knowing someone on the inside. Its hard to hire anyone out of the blue into a state job, even contractors have politically tied contracts behind them. The connections the people higher up have are unfathomable for ave joes like us to grasp. A majority of the people making decisions for you and I are sitting in office full of self important SELF APPOINTED office chairs. They are there to put a name to an action, and could careless what the outcome really is for anyone else. Its called “I make XXX an Initiative, 6 months from now if I carry it out I was successful. Then it goes on my yearly review”. Example, my agency wants to decom some physical servers and move them to virtuals. Sure it saves money on hardware, but the virtual servers run like such shit and they know it. “We will just add virtuals when we hit bottle necks later on” < another “initiative!”. So basically they know it will make hell for admins and users, shit will run worse and eventually cost more expense and wasted time/effort. They straight up don’t care. Getting back to how they even are in a position to make dumb fucking moves like that…. there are people in my agency that made the position they wanted to hold, then moved right into the seat. Simple as that. You think that guys going to get fired?
Everyone of power here has one hand in their pants holding their wallet, and the other hand is holding the persons hand next to them.
And it has nothing to do about not caring to do anything against the bullshit they see every day. The people that see it and want to change it have next to ZERO chance at doing anything about it. The only people that CAN change it, are the people who did it in the first place and cant accept mistakes so they wont change it. Happens like you said EVERY day here, small beans stuff like I see to big problems like this issue we dont see till its too late.
Back to the gun rights and legalities of the way they passed the bill during one night… They don’t care. EVEN if it was somehow illegal, you can bet your ass state lawyers were working that night and probably still working on the “right” way to sneak it right back in later on if it gets repealed. It’s the typical way we do everything here. “It’s probably not right and won’t work long term, but we will do it anyway to buy us time to figure out the right way.”