“This is kind of, I think, par for the course for the Legislature, which is, we do the right thing, but not until we’ve tried everything else,” Hortman said. “We never get along until we have the dueling press conferences and, ‘We’re going to take it to a shutdown, and we’re going to deny quorum.’ You’ve got to have the most extreme options on the table before everybody’s like, ‘OK, well, shucks, I guess we have to get along.’”
