If your like most people you find it hard to trust our elected officials. I sat down at the computer before and though it wasn't really a surprise I read that Massachusetts was changing their law again. This is the law that governs how they replace a representative due to death or retirement. Thay change in 2003-04 in case Kerry was elected to keep a Republican govenor Romney from naming a replacement. Now there is a Democrat in the govenor's chair so they need to put it back so a replacement can be named for Kennedy. These type of shenanigans are exactly why people don't trust their elected officials.
The Dems aren't the only ones playing games. Anytime there is a census and districts need to be redrawn they carve the states up in to as many safe districts as they can.
Arbitrary rules that only serve to advance political aims are trust killers.
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You get more of the behavior that you reward and less of the behavior that you punish. So as long as politicians get re-elected for pulling stunts like this, the voters have no one to blame but themselves.
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