Two days, two of my committee chairs are out of the legislature. I posted yesterday on the death of Rep. Jim Bottorff. Today, I see in the Evansville Courier Press that Senator Larry Lutz (D-Evansville) will retire. When I was working for the legislature, Senator Lutz was a Representative and he chaired the House Public Safety Committee, another committee on which I had the privilege to serve as staff counsel. In his inimitable style, Senator Lutz described his reasons for retiring this way:
“A wise man once told me that there’s three ways to leave the Legislature and two of them aren’t very good,” Lutz said Tuesday. “It’s time to retire. It’s time for a younger person to take over.”
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