Too many Florida lawmakers engage in political theater instead of actually governing | Column
âRepublicans have taken politics as theater to an entirely new level,â writes columnist Mac Stipanovich.
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Updated Feb. 18
Political theater is supplanting public policy as the vocation of too many of our elected officials. Madison Cawthon, the newly elected Republican Congressman from North Carolina, recently said the quiet part out loud: âI have built my staff around comms (communications) rather than legislation.â In this, he is a man of his times.
Mac Stipanovich [ Mac Stipanovich ]
Governing effectively and legislating wisely are hard work, while headline grabbing news conferences, filing purely performative legislation and writing indignant letters certain to be ignored by the recipients but equally certain to be widely reported on by the press are easy pickings. The hard road, always less traveled, is becoming almost deserted in this moment of decadence i