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RE: "Right on! Too bad we couldn't fire all of them and get some new ones who are more like you and me."

Strangely, there seems to be a 'great deal of resistance' (among potential firees) to that concept, even when the law mandating it is already in place. (Massachusetts obviously doesn't have a corner on the 'corruption' market. We have some definite 'contenders' out here on the Left Coast, as the below article, and this thread in general, ably demonstrate.)

From: http://www.ustl.org/

Donations can't fail to catch Nuñez's eye
Groups with bills before the Assembly give $1.68 million to fund speaker's bid to adjust term limits.

By Nancy Vogel, Times Staff Writer
June 4, 2007

SACRAMENTO — The law bars them from donating more than $7,200 directly to Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles). But nothing has prevented teachers, doctors, gambling enterprises, insurers and others from giving much, much more to a cause close to Nuñez's heart.

Those interest groups wrote checks for as much as $250,000 to help bankroll a ballot measure that would tweak California's term limits to give Nuñez another six years in the Legislature. Seventeen unions, corporations, utilities and professional associations have donated a combined $1.68 million for a signature-gathering effort to put the measure before voters next February. Read More

Editor’s Note: U.S. Term Limits is highlighting this article to bring you yet another example of the blatant corruption among elected officials and special interests that must be stopped.

Speaker Fabian Nunez and Senator Don Perata again give us clear illustration as to why they could be named arguably the most corrupt elected officials in America.

http://www.ustl.org/