State politicians seek cover for gutting statute reform

I wanted to begin this column with a great rant about politicians from an old "Monty Python" episode.
It's presented in the guise of an apology for some previous content and scrolls down the screen as a very-proper narrator reads it and "Pomp and Circumstance" plays. I didn't have space for the whole thing — you can find it on YouTube — but here's an excerpt:

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