VA: Puckett's Senate exit undid T-Mac's plan for Medexpansion

[RogueBeaver]

Pretty fun read from WaPo.

[Miles]

Old news, but Sawx put it best:

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[free my dawg]

If Terry McAuliife decided to go full Underwood, and hire a bunch of prisoners to murder this guy like in Breaking Bad, I don't think any of these deaths would be fitting for him.

Rotting in prison, away from the comforts of his cushy political life, where he's known for endangering the lives of 400,000 people for his family's benefit, is the only fitting punishment for this disgusting person.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Even with Puckett, it would have been a long shot.  Why would the heavily Republican House have assented to the budget McAuliffe was hoping would pass if the narrowly Republican Senate didn't?

[Indy Texas]

I realize that forcing someone to stay in office against their will would probably qualify as indentured servitude, but I think legislators should be required to sign a contract at the beginning of every term promising to serve out their full term unless they die or are removed or recalled from office. If they want to resign before their term is up because they were elected to another office or resigned to become a judge or a lobbyist or something, they should be required to "buy out" the remainder of their term by paying the state/federal government the amount of salary they would have received for the remainder of their term.

[IceSpear]

Next poll: Andrew Cuomo vs. Phil Puckett

[SPC]

I realize that forcing someone to stay in office against their will would probably qualify as indentured servitude, but I think legislators should be required to sign a contract at the beginning of every term promising to serve out their full term unless they die or are removed or recalled from office. If they want to resign before their term is up because they were elected to another office or resigned to become a judge or a lobbyist or something, they should be required to "buy out" the remainder of their term by paying the state/federal government the amount of salary they would have received for the remainder of their term.

Because the public would obviously benefit from legislators who have an explicit disinterest in performing their job.

(I initially wrote that in jest, but come to think about it, there might be merit in the idea of having legislators who hate their job. A lottery system of representation would certainly be preferable to representative democracy in the sense we know it in a few ways.)

[Indy Texas]

I realize that forcing someone to stay in office against their will would probably qualify as indentured servitude, but I think legislators should be required to sign a contract at the beginning of every term promising to serve out their full term unless they die or are removed or recalled from office. If they want to resign before their term is up because they were elected to another office or resigned to become a judge or a lobbyist or something, they should be required to "buy out" the remainder of their term by paying the state/federal government the amount of salary they would have received for the remainder of their term.

Because the public would obviously benefit from legislators who have an explicit disinterest in performing their job.

(I initially wrote that in jest, but come to think about it, there might be merit in the idea of having legislators who hate their job. A lottery system of representation would certainly be preferable to representative democracy in the sense we know it in a few ways.)

The goal wouldn't be to force them to stay. It would be to make them reconsider running for another term to begin with because of the added costs associated with doing so if they decided to leave.

We've had members of the House resign literally a few months into a given term. They obviously had whatever they left to do already lined up before they were reelected, so this would just be incentive for them to skip the pretense altogether and just retire.