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Offline Hoodat

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Re: Here are the 11 GOP senators who helped advance the debt extension
« Reply #25 on: October 08, 2021, 05:41:42 pm »
Quote from: EdinVA on October 08, 2021, 05:33:55 pm
So what is to prevent soros to buy the governor?  State legislators?  And totally disregard the state with no accountability what so ever....  I just see it as moving the chairs on the deck of the sinking ship.

We are.  Our responsibility is to get involved in State and local politics.  It is what our Founding Fathers intended.
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Re: Here are the 11 GOP senators who helped advance the debt extension
« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2021, 05:43:55 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on October 08, 2021, 05:41:42 pm
We are.  Our responsibility is to get involved in State and local politics.  It is what our Founding Fathers intended.

So why is voting for senators any different than voting for governor?  Just trying to understand...
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Re: Here are the 11 GOP senators who helped advance the debt extension
« Reply #27 on: October 08, 2021, 05:55:21 pm »
Quote from: EdinVA on October 08, 2021, 05:43:55 pm
So why is voting for senators any different than voting for governor?  Just trying to understand...

Because no member of the Georgia legislature has any connection over what happens in Seattle ports.  But some do regarding Fort Stewart, Fort Benning, Fort Gillem, Dobbins AFB, etc.  So they are more likely to select someone who will serve on a Defense subcommittee rather than a Pacific maritime one.  It is only after the Senator gains power with a committee assignment that that monetary influence comes in.  With the State legislature deciding, we are more inclined to get one who focuses on Georgia's needs rather than Seattle's.

The reason the 17th Amendment was pushed in the first place is because they couldn't get the Senate to agree to spend any of the taxpayer's money.  Frankly, I didn't have a problem with that. 
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

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