I despise the ability of governors to chose who inherits an elected official truce that is vacated. There should be a special election for every elected office that is vacated. You are defending the Deep State’s ability to insulate themselves from the vote.
“There should be a special election for every elected office that is vacated.”
I would compromise with you. There should be special elections to fill vacancies in U.S. Congressional seats, but governors should appoint someone to fill the vacancy until after that special election is held.
Given that the appointee in most cases (and in this case) is only serving the remainder of a term, I can see laws allowing the exception for when that term remainder is less than 1/2 of the otherwise full term, in which the next election will take care of your concern.
By your lights the voters should reject this guy in 2024 merely because he is now being appointed to serve office for the next 22 and 1/2 months.
THe senate was originally a state legislature appointed office. The leftist changed the constitution to allow direct voting.
In 1913 the Seventeenth Amendment officially became a part of the U.S. Constitution, providing for the direct popular election of senators. This was a major departure from the plan adopted by the framers in 1787. According to Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution, “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six Years.” The framers believed that in electing senators, state legislatures would cement their ties with the national government. They also expected that senators elected by state legislatures would be freed from pressures of public opinion and therefore better able to concentrate on legislative business and serve the needs of each state. In essence, senators would serve as “states’ ambassadors” to the federal government. Unfortunately, problems with this system soon arose, particularly when state legislators failed to agree on a Senate candidate, causing frequent Senate vacancies. By 1826 proposals for direct election of senators began appearing, but it took reformers nearly a century to achieve this constitutional change.