JEFFERSON CITY - At the end of the 2007 session, Sen. John Griesheimer was finished. Worn down and beat after a particularly stressful legislative session that ended in a series of vetoes by Gov. Matt Blunt, he said he thought about resigning. Three years later, as the legislative session closes, he said he's sad to leave, term-limited after 16 years in the General Assembly.
Another amendment, introduced by Sen. John Griesheimer, R-Washington, sought to maintain eligilibity of current legislators to become lobbyists if they leave office before 2011, while restricting lobbyist activity for future legislators.
Missouri's Senate rejected a proposal to require plumbing codes in counties with parks on lakes and streams. The measure was in response to last summer's reports of high levels of contamination at the Lake of the Ozarks caused, in part, by unregulated septic tanks."When you build something, your sewage is going to go somewhere and it's going to affect somebody," warned Schaefer, who supported the provision Without some sort of regulation, Schaefer warned "we're go..