To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wasn't one of the goals of the 17th amendment to remove corruption of party bosses and take the huge sums of money out of the process?
That worked out well didn't it?
Now we have external influence picking the Senator that is supposed to be representing YOUR State.
5 posted on
12/16/2010 1:09:44 PM PST by
frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: frogjerk
--yep--the railroads and "Rockefeller" were the big bug-a-boos then-
-does anybody seriously think that having the present day California or New York legislatures electing senators would be a great improvement?
9 posted on
12/16/2010 1:26:25 PM PST by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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