My continuing call to oust them all!  Vote AGAINST any incumbent.

I was asked recently, “What would happen if we sent them all packing?  Wouldn’t congress lose its effectiveness?”  First I beg to ask what effectiveness is there now.  That aside.  The way it is “juniors” (rookies) are taught the “way it works” by the “seniors” as they enter Congress.  That perpetuates the “system” and all the problems we have now.  So what would happen it we suddenly replaced the entire bunch over the next few elections?  The new Congress persons would be forced to read the rule book, the Constitution of the United States of America.  They don’t have to read it or any other bill now.  It is simply the senior saying to the rookie, “Just vote like me and you will get on a committee with real POWER!”

We must vote out these thieves and stop the cycle of blatant corruption!! 

Below is a letter from a friend of mine who also want to VOTE AGAINST incumbents.

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If Americans could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 57% would throw out all the legislators and start over again. Just 25% would vote to keep the Congress.

Despite these reviews, more than 90% of Congress routinely gets reelected every two years. It’s a shock when any incumbent loses. One explanation for this phenomenon frequently heard in Washington, D.C. is that “people hate Congress but love their own congressman.”

Voters have a different perspective, and 50% say 'rigged' election rules explain high reelection rate for Congress.

When the Constitution was written, the nation’s founders expected that there would be a 50% turnover in the House of Representatives every election cycle. That was the experience they witnessed in state legislatures at the time (and most of the state legislatures offered just one-year terms). For well over 100 years after the Constitution was adopted, the turnover averaged in the 50% range as expected.

In the 20th century, turnover began to decline. As power and prestige flowed to Washington during the New Deal era, fewer and fewer members of Congress wanted to leave. In 1968, congressional turnover fell to single digits for the first time ever, and it has remained very low ever since.

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