Just for laughs, I’ll see “number of governments” and raise you the last three Speakers of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts, all of them convicted felons.
Not “charged,” convicted.
The question remains would they do any worse than Massholes who elected Elizabeth “Liawatha” Warren to the senate? Or the same Massholes who sent Dead Ted back over and over after he murdered a woman in a drunken stupor?
That looks like a “heads I win; tails you lose” situation.
You make a superb example of Massachusetts. With repeal of the 17th, the chances of electing Scott Brown go to zero. The state has not had a GOP legislature in 60 years and you would’ve had nothing but Kennedys or Charlie Flahertys, Tom Finnerans, or Salvatore DiMasis (capped with useless garbage like “Marcia”(sic) Coakley). Brown was no prize, but compared to the rest of the garbage from there... and the people did elect him, something impossible if this ill-advised repeal were to take hold. For a Massachusetts Republican (or Conservative) to suggest it is madness.