Putting Pocketbooks First
2011-04-22 - by
Sometimes you have to rise above principle.
That’s what Rep. Leo Daughtry and several Republican House members did this week when they voted to weaken the tort reform bill.
Normally, tort reform is an article of faith for Republicans. It’s not only in their platforms, it’s in their genetic code.
But that principle ran headlong into Daughtry and his band of lawyer-legislators. They went to the mat for something far more important: their fees.
Limiting non-economic awards to a half-million dollars, you see, would limit their contingency fees. They’re all for reform, you understand, but don’t cut into their incomes!
You wonder how Republican primary voters would like that.
Putting Pocketbooks First
2011-04-22/
Sometimes you have to rise above principle.
That’s what Rep. Leo Daughtry and several Republican House members did this week when they voted to weaken the tort reform bill.
Normally, tort reform is an article of faith for Republicans. It’s not only in their platforms, it’s in their genetic code.
But that principle ran headlong into Daughtry and his band of lawyer-legislators. They went to the mat for something far more important: their fees.
Limiting non-economic awards to a half-million dollars, you see, would limit their contingency fees. They’re all for reform, you understand, but don’t cut into their incomes!
You wonder how Republican primary voters would like that.