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Fightin the good fight

When Rep. Bill Callegari introduced his bill to clarify the law about obstructed license plates, he got a House clerk to hold up a plate with a formerly illegal bracket around it.

For grins, I ran the plate. Did I get a lobbyist? Nope. A fellow legislator? Nope? Stolen plates? I shoulda been so lucky.

Nah, the plate belonged to Jeremy Mazur, Callegari's chief of staff. Mazur admitted that yes, that was his plate, and ... even worse ... he didn't put the bracket around it - he used his boss' bracket, sacrificing his own law-abiding status to turn into a scofflaw, if just for a moment.

"Sometimes," he said, "You gotta do what you gotta do in order to help get your boss' bill passed."

Now that's dedication.