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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (3675)	1/30/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Michael -- I agree with almost everything you said, except:<<Congress was never supposed to be a lifetime appointment.>> The Constitution says nothing about this. Every congressperson has to go through elections at either 2- or 6-year intervals; that was supposed to ensure that the will of the people prevailed. But the money that incumbents can raise now has taken the competitiveness out of the election process. I believe that serious people can remove the funding differential from the election equation (Feingold-McCain is of itself inadequate to do so, but would be a great start); unfortunately, neither party, neither house wants to pass a law that makes them run for every election. Thus, they are not serious about campaign reform. How can we, the people make them get serious? Any suggestions, gang?