You don't want to see the sausage being made! Or, do you?

Our representatives in the Roundhouse have created a sausage
for us and it's a doozy.  Even those whose normal tendency is
toward more dispassionate reporting are steaming, link.

Legislating has been likened to sausage making in that,
you don't really want to see either in process of being made.

The implication is that you would be disgusted if you really knew what goes into sausage.  And according to the saw; you would be disgusted if you really knew what goes on in the legislative process in Santa Fe.

So why are we allowing a disgusting process to continue?
Why do we continue to allow legislators to engage in conduct we find so disturbing that we don't want to watch. Just because we can't watch?

It is precisely because we cannot see the sausage being made,
that the sausage making process is repugnant.  And, why
it never changes.

The sausage makers like sausage making just the way it is.
The sausage makers have no reason to change their process.

However and whatever individual New Mexicans feel about
the philosophically different solutions to complex issues,
they all must be universally upset with the process that eschews
philosophical discussion and debate in favor of middle of the
night votes, and last minute procedural maneuvering.

It is time to re-visit the NM Constitution and how the Roundhouse works.  It's time to set new standards and new expectations.  It is time to revisit the process; beginning with the addition of the most fundamentally important ingredient; more sunlight.