State Representative Cesar Blanco received some press back at home from trying to prevent changes to a state veteran tuition program, the Hazelwood Act.
As it is now, veterans can pass the benefits of the program to their dependents.
Legislators were wanting to change the residency requirements of this program, and reduce the number of credit hours that a veteran could pass to a dependent.
Why?
Because state colleges are absorbing all of these costs, which is in the millions.
So what is the problem?
Cesar Blanco is barking up the wrong tree.
Blanco spent much of his career working for federal legislators, who probably did little to nothing of legislative note to help veteran dependents, but has the audacity to lecture state legislators to find the money to continue the program as is.
The reason why the program exists in the first place is because the federal government doesn't do much for veterans and their dependents.
So enter state government.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, state governments, unlike the federal government, must pass a balanced budget.
But hey, let's not let something like that get in the way of Blanco scoring cheap political points, points that he could have scored while wandering Congressional halls, but instead was more interested in his looks than anything else.