Surprising Referral

The State Senate's Ethics Committee has finished it's report on disgraced former Senator John Ford and, surprisingly, is going to forward it to the Shelby County Attorney General's office. Since Ford is no longer a Senator, the Ethics Committee can do nothing about Ford's actions, but their sending this report for possible criminal action is a sign of some real and disastrous findings.

It's also a sign of change in the General Assembly. It's hard to imagine Ford being investigated by previous Ethics Committee chairs, even if much of his wrong-doing predates the present chair, Ron Ramsey. Maybe it's that Ramsey is a Republican? Maybe we're finally seeing the corrupt Democratic Party's hold slipping, and the rocks are at last being overturned for all to see the bugs squirming underneath?

It's a refreshing change, at any rate, and hopefully a harbinger of more investigations to come, and maybe for change to come to the House, under the thuggish and corrupt Jimmy Naifeh. We can only hope.