Oh BTW, you know Jesse Helms? He never would have been a Senator under your plan cause the rats only recently lost control of the North Carolina legislature.
Honestly, you people. Think. Putting more power into the hands of politicians? Seriously? Jesus.
Politicians are scum, your state legislator is no more likely to have your “state’s interests” at heart than your Congressman. What matters is are they a non-corrupt conservative Republican or not, that’s all that matters. That is the only distinguishing feature. If they are they do, if they are a democrat or RINO then THEY DON’T.
You know who virtually the entire Republican membership of the Texas legislature thought should be a Senator? Why the boss of the State Senate RINO David Dewhurst. Thank goodness the people had other ideas. Can you say cronyism?
You’d have a small handful of state legislative leaders making the choices. No sale.
They’ve been told that repeatedly, they choose to ignore it (you’ll note they never address the subject of individual Senators). The NC legislature of 1973 would’ve elected Helms’s opponent, the liberal Democrat Congressman Nick Galifianakis (uncle of that bearded boob actor, Zach), in a landslide (as there were very few Republicans in their leg. in those days).