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In reply to the discussion: No, this is not how you "Fix Congress." [View all]progree
(10,864 posts)[font color=blue]Exaxtly! I was just working on a OP about this. [/font]
Feel free to use anything I wrote (or copied and pasted) in an OP. It is definitely worth an OP, maybe with a catchy scary edgy title that everyone will look at...
Certainly better than writing more about it in this thread. I didn't realize this thread was in General Discussion with a last reply date of January 3 before I replied with my #15. That puts it in the archives (since the first 30 pages sorted by Last Reply goes only back to Monday 1/13, and anything that isn't in the most recent 30 pages gets archived automatically) which means any new replies don't kick it to the top or kick it anywhere for that matter (something I read in the Help Forum - anything that lands in the archives stays in the archives forever). So probably only you have seen my #15.
[font color=blue]So, who is working against this? What organization I join? [/font]
I don't know, I haven't looked into it. I heard a little bit about this issue before the election (and now and again once in a long while in the past decade or so) but this is the first time I've heard of it moving towards the front burner. (I first got alerted to the looming front burner status by Thom Hartmann about 4 days ago). Considering all the damage these Republican trifectas have done in the states they control (union-busting, gerrymandering, voting restrictions) I take this quite seriously and am glad you do too. 59% of my political contributions in 2012 went to one cause -- defeating voter photo ID in Minnesota (which we did, something that was thought impossible to do until a month before the election when it started to look close). The other 41% went to (unsuccessfully) try to recall Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin -- since I think what happens at the state government level is so important but gets relatively too little funding compared to federal government races (president, Senate, House).
By the way, thanks for your excellent OP on Congressional pay and benefits -- to add to my little library of postings that cover a topic in a thorough comprehensive way.