WDT: How an Edict Becomes a Law

 I read with interest the news coverage of a proposed new recycling law.  The media says the law was proposed by DANC, but I didn't see that name on the list of fifteen Jefferson County legislators.
   I thought legislation was supposed to be proposed by a lawmaker, rather than an outside entity. The reason is now you have lawmakers boxed into debating a law not of their making. Any rejection of the idea will then be seen as knuckle-dragging on the part of pols. 
    I know we live in a world run by the bureaucracy, but can't a legislator be found to champion this cause, so we can pretend there is representative government ?
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