Parete has a personal interest in this, having never missed a regular meeting since he took office in 2002. “People can judge us on two things, our attendance and how we vote,” he said. There’s also constituent work.
Meanwhile, legislature lawyer Langdon Chapman says there are no legislative requirements on attendance. Ergo, snowbirds like Wayne Harris — he left for his annual Florida sojourn in mid-January and should be back for the March 20 legislative meeting — aren’t breaking any rules. Absent legislators are merely marked “absent.”
Legislators might give some thought to those issues when discussing what may come to be known as “the Parete rule.”
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