I was originally going to do an extra few comics in this series, and explore some more craziness in legislation. I have become a strong advocate of mercilessly editing your own work, removing unnecessary pieces and where possible replacing words with pictures (these are comics, after all). However, I think in this case I cut too much and the message gets confusing.
Rep. Hassleblapp looks like he’s contradicting himself here, but this was designed to be him talking out of both sides of his mouth, depending on his audience. The bill was engineered for controversy. That was in a bunch of panels that I cut. Sometimes I think I edited this too heavily, but other times I remember that the reason I skipped these strips was because I felt it had bogged down too much because of all the dialog that wasn’t moving the main characters forward.