This is dusgusting. Our governement was set up for average people to serve and then go home, not milk it for a career and use their popularity to get their family to take their place. Then they give each other awards for “public service”. I don’t care what party it is, term limits is the only answer.
Of course, the problem with term limits is that you get officeholders who have no accountability to the electorate.
Term limits isn't the answer. An informed electorate combined with an expectation of honest statesmanship (so colleagues remove offenders) is.
Will America ever get back to that? I doubt it.
Sadly the best the GOP in that RINO(ish) state could do (to win anyway) would be to put up Mike Castle, if they has any cajones (and actually believed conservatively): they’d put up Colon Boninisp?
This is dusgusting. Our governement was set up for average people to serve and then go home, not milk it for a career and use their popularity to get their family to take their place.
It can go both ways as sometimes the electorate decides not to make it a family heirs position. Hunter of CA did that this time with his son riding his name recognition into the seat. However a few years back the electorate in LA rejected Billy Tauzin’s son when he tried to assume the seat and the Texas group did the same when Dick Armey’s son attempted to assume his seat.
I know it stuns me that a good man like Duncan Hunter gave his seat to his son. Ok they had an election...most were voting for his father. The whole system is corrupt.
Welcome to the late Roman Republic where a handful of Patrician families rule as oligarchs...