Month: April 2018

Aside from my wedding day and the births of my children and grandchildren, today, April 1st, 2018, has been the best ever.  In the early morning I saw the setting of a blue moon, followed by Easter Sunday on April Fools, the first time they have coincided since 1956.  My daughter-in-law (daughter, really) is visiting with my two granddaughters, and I got my 95 year old mother out of her nursing home to come to the house and visit.  It’s a glorious spring day in Gold Country, with wildflowers coming into bloom, and the first fresh leaves of the year sprouting on the oaks.

And, after having thought about it for five years, I think I’ve come up with a way to get to 34 states next year.  I expect to be attending the next meeting of the National Conference of State Legislators, slated for July 30 in Los Angeles, to make some sort of presentation.  In the mean time, I’ll be discussing it with some people I respect.

I can’t wait for George Soros to hear the news.  He thinks he’s got us beat, and no one will ever get the 34 states needed to propose an amendment.  Soros’ problem is that he’s not an American, and he doesn’t understand the American people.  That’s why he’ll never win.  He doesn’t understand who he’s dealing with.

My mother remembered a song she sang as a child, “Christ is Risen”, and she sang it for her great granddaughters.  She told them to remember her, and her song, on Easter Sundays.

It is a jewel of a day, which I will treasure forever.  Happy Easter from the Pettyjohn family.

A lot of people think it will be term limits, but maybe not.  In small states political talent is pretty scarce.  So when they get really good legislators they don’t want to lose them.  But term limits forces out some dedicated and talented legislative leaders, like Speaker Mesnard in Arizona.  So it’s very difficult to get these states to vote for any kind of term limits.

I think the states should adopt an amendment which would call a Convention of States every ten years, or less.  The Convention would have the full power to propose constitutional amendments, subject to ratification of 3/4 of the states.

If you’re a state legislator, why wouldn’t you want the power to meet every ten years to propose constitutional amendments?

I guess we’ll have to call it the of State Convention Amendment.