Margolis: Lawmakers deserve more credit

Rep. Tom Stevens, D-Waterbury, the vice chair of the House General Affairs Committee, talks with Rep. Helen Head, D-South Burlington, the committee chair. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
Hardly anyone who has spent time around any state legislature – and almost no reporter who ever covered one – is unfamiliar with the old line that “no man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
So said Gideon J. Tucker (1826-1899), who &nda