-it isn’t much different—and is why I feel that this “repeal the 17th amendment” stuff is so much silliness—does anyone seriously think that the present California state legislature, for example, would elect anyone different than Boxer or Feinstein?
The irony is that while the legislature of a state has little to say about the US Senate, it can influence its congressional delegation by redrawing district lines.
The sovereign remedy for that would be to have a single election for governor and senator - if you get elected as senator, you should serve there for four years and then serve as governor for four years. Then see how easy it is to get bills imposing unfunded mandates on the states through the Senate!
Exactly they’d choose the same scumbags or worse.
I have a rat State Senator and a rat State Rep. No Republicans ever even run for the seats. Why the hell would I wanna give my right to pick my Senator to them?