They'll use any excuse to forsake the people who pay their salaries though.
The only thing they understand is the blunt exercise of power through the ballot box.
Spencer Abraham lost not because of the power of organized labor, or the prowess of the MI Democratic Party-in spite of the boasts they might make to that effect-but because he was an open borders Republican.
Unfortunately, the people who unseated him didn't seem to realize that the person who would be replacing him in that seat was just as atrocious on the issue of immigration, but much worse in every other respect.
That's the problem. They campaign one way to get elected, and if they are, they turn into Mr.Hyde. You can't trust the bastards anymore. They just tell you what you want to hear to get elected. On election night, you go to bed with a 10 and wake up with a 1.