Among the distinguished guests at Fawn Spady's campaign kick-off on Sunday (see the previous post) was state Senator Jim Horn, chair of the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee. I chatted with him for a few minutes and asked him about the vehicle registration bill that I've mentioned in connection with the Monorail tax. (Actually, I started the discussion by thanking him for killing the bill).

Sen. Horn told me that he felt that it should be left up to individual localities to decide whether to require vehicle registration at a specific address and that it shouldn't be imposed on the entire state to do it that way. He explained that some people in the state have multiple residences and that the precedent here is that "people live where they say they live". I asked him what he thought about the Department of Licensing adopting an administrative rule to achieve an outcome that the legislature rejected. He said that he did what he felt he needed to do to establish legislative intent and the facts are there if anybody wants to challenge the DOL in court...

Sen. Horn is a good man.