On Thursday Senate Republicans voted to end the inmate work program at the Governor’s residence. This was, of course, an obvious political play to get some extra cycles out of the recent story about two inmates caught drinking at the residence. I’m not exactly sure how they think this will embarrass the Governor, but that seems to be their objective. It is an election year, after all.

It’s pretty unlikely the bill will ever be taken up by the House let alone pass. But this type of action clearly shows that Senate Republicans are more interested in scoring political […]