Was Cole one of them? State seats are minor leagues.
Doesn’t matter who they were. If they were incumbents, they were Swamp Filth.
Unfortunately, Cole survived.
Not when it comes to creating the State's election laws.
"State seats are minor leagues."
Respectfully DIRTYSECRET, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Constitution's drafters had left the care of the people uniquely with the states, not the federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
The problem is that probably most state lawmakers today don't understand that the federal government steals state revenues by means of unconstitutional (imo) federal taxes facilitated by its abuse of 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes), taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
In other words the "federal" funding that states often beg from the federal government to help keep their state programs running are arguably state revenues that should have never left the states in the first place.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Since Congress can no longer be trusted to respect the Constitution, it is up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" Congress in November, supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.