Comments on: Alabama Secretary of State Abets GOP? http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/11/alabama-secretary-of-state-abets-gop/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Wed, 23 May 2012 19:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/11/alabama-secretary-of-state-abets-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-3626 Glynn Wilson Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:11 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/11/19/alabama-secretary-of-state-abets-gop/#comment-3626 Apparently they think they can say a prayer and get better candidates. Obviously that doesn't work. It got us GWB. Apparently they think they can say a prayer and get better candidates. Obviously that doesn’t work. It got us GWB.

]]> By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/11/alabama-secretary-of-state-abets-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-3625 Yana Davis Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:40:16 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/11/19/alabama-secretary-of-state-abets-gop/#comment-3625 Sounds pretty fishy to me. Once again, I call for all now-elected political offices to be filled by random draw from lists of eligible voters -- just like for jury duty -- for at least the next 20 years. (You get one term, and you're done. All former officeholders will be ineligible.) We save: (1) the costs of holding multiple primary and general elections; (2) the costs to taxpayers from corruption of now-randomly-chosen officials by special interests. We get: (1) legislators and executive officials who *really are* ordinary people; (2) a fresh set of them every four years; (3) an end to professional politics as a career option, mostly for lawyers. Chances for this happening? Probably less than a snowball in... Sounds pretty fishy to me. Once again, I call for all now-elected political offices to be filled by random draw from lists of eligible voters — just like for jury duty — for at least the next 20 years. (You get one term, and you’re done. All former officeholders will be ineligible.)

We save: (1) the costs of holding multiple primary and general elections; (2) the costs to taxpayers from corruption of now-randomly-chosen officials by special interests.

We get: (1) legislators and executive officials who *really are* ordinary people; (2) a fresh set of them every four years; (3) an end to professional politics as a career option, mostly for lawyers.

Chances for this happening? Probably less than a snowball in…

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