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Some hope remains: Primary elections! Where worse offenders lose to challengers within their parties! Do you get your butt off the chair or the driver's seat to vote in those, especially in years other than one that is a multiple of 4 with a second-termer in the Oval Office?
The good news that I hope catches on comes from *of all places* the US state that has most of its land area sometimes said to be more like Alabama than Alabama is, and as far as I have heard the only 1 of all 50 that has no lobbyist disclosure law covering all state politicians!
That state had a sneaky state government pay raise that raises pay of those who had a chance to vote on it before they survived re-election (which is against the state constitution), and did so in a convoluted way that was convoluted ("unvouchered expenses") so as to have some chance of being upheld by state supreme court judges (who also benefited from this pay raise legislation).
Last November, a state supreme court judge who voted to uphold that in a court case lost a retention election - second time in state history. Another state supreme court judge voting in favor of upholding that pay raise and being up for a retention election survived it by a historically low margin.
But back to primary elections: About a dozen state legislators lost to same-party challengers in these, including the top 2 ranking state senators!
That state is Pennsylvania.
Oh, the top rank member of PA's lower house of legislative branch? Survived - and I believe because his district is in Philadelphia. What else about Philadelphia here: Biggest primary election challenge on the basis of incumbent voting for this pay raise had the incumbent surviving by a few percent. The Philadelphia one that looked most likely to go in favor of the challenger (too close to call for a while and I did not check into late official/final tallies) was mentioned in the newspapers as being decided more by race than on the pay raise issue. And the supreme court judge that lost the retention election had the votes from Philadelphia being in his favor. So much for Philadelphia being better than "more like Alabama than Alabama is"!
