Speaker of the House Rod Jetton has great timing.

Maybe it was purely coincidental, maybe not, but Monday afternoon during a House Rules Committee hearing Jetton popped his head in the door right as committee chairman Shannon Cooper, R-Clinton, was about to discuss, however briefly, the village law repeal. (SB 765 sponsored by Sen. Jack Goodman, R-Mt. Vernon).

Jetton, of course, has been the target of those who want the law repealed because of his involvement in it passing last year. (Jetton denies he was responsible for inserting the provision that helps his buddy developer Robert Plaster).

So Jetton, with a sheepish smile on his face, tells Cooper to hurry things up a bit because there’s a Republican caucus meeting going on. Cooper, noting that SB765 now has a “whole lot of stuff in it” passed the bill through his committee. But he made it clear that the 911-tax that was tacked on will get removed on the House floor, should the bill come up for debate.

Jetton wasn’t the only one with a sense of timing in the meeting. While in the process of passing SB778, which would encourage sixth-grade girls to receive the HPV virus shots, Cooper asked: “This won’t encourage kids to have sex, will it?”

Shot back Rep. Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City: “Not any more than hormones will.”