is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
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is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
The only way I see is to vote out enough of them and vote in those that would vote for it. This would have to happen within a very short time, so as avoid the newly elected becoming part of the problem.
That doesn't work, either. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) promised he would serve only two terms. At the end of his second term, he ran for reelection to a third term.
He would have won, but died in a plane crash (chartered plane, flew into heaving icing conditions). The party substituted perennial loser Walter Mondale, and he might have won, but Wellstone's sons turned the funeral into a campaign event for Mondale. Moderate Democrats in MN were appalled, and either stayed home or voted for Norm Coleman.
Fun fact: Mondale was never elected to any office by challenging the incumbent. He was only re-elected, after being appointed to the office.