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    Just wondering where you would stand on this...

    Should a Governor, for example, be required to resign his office in order to run for President?
    Or a Mayor have to resign to campaign for Governor?

    I can understand somebody campaigning to be reelected to their SAME office, but to pay somebody to continue to serve as Mayor, for example, while he/she is focused on a higher office seems a bit strange.
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    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

  • #2
    I guess they want job security in case they fail?

    maybe that is why we have lieutenant governors and assistant mayors.

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    • #3
      Interesting question. Perhaps a compromise would be suspending their pay until they resume their elected duties.
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God


      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
        Interesting question. Perhaps a compromise would be suspending their pay until they resume their elected duties.
        Yep. It's not as if one can actively campaign AND devote sufficient time to one's job; there aren't that many hours in a day.
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        • #5
          I think congress people should have to resign before being allowed to campaign for re-election.

          Term limits!

          I wonder if term limits would actually work? you would end up with a ton of lame duck senators and representatives that go nuts in their last year.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            Just wondering where you would stand on this...

            Should a Governor, for example, be required to resign his office in order to run for President?
            Or a Mayor have to resign to campaign for Governor?

            I can understand somebody campaigning to be reelected to their SAME office, but to pay somebody to continue to serve as Mayor, for example, while he/she is focused on a higher office seems a bit strange.
            I believe some jurisdictions require that.

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #7
              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
              I believe some jurisdictions require that.
              I was thinking that, but couldn't think which ones.
              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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              • #8
                It's an interesting idea and I'm not sure what I think yet

                I dislike the idea of term limits as being up for re-election is supposed to be the means by which officials are held accountable.
                "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                  I was thinking that, but couldn't think which ones.
                  Only 5 states. Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, and (figured you'd know this) Texas. There was actually a bit of a controversy here in Georgia since the Secretary of State is running for Governor but since his term as the former expires when the term of the latter (assuming he wins) starts, it's legal.

                  I'm always still in trouble again

                  "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                  "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                  "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    I think congress people should have to resign before being allowed to campaign for re-election.

                    Term limits!

                    I wonder if term limits would actually work? you would end up with a ton of lame duck senators and representatives that go nuts in their last year.
                    I'd love to see "politician" in general become a part-time, unpaid profession. Force them to actually work for a living.
                    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                    Than a fool in the eyes of God


                    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                      I'd love to see "politician" in general become a part-time, unpaid profession. Force them to actually work for a living.
                      Then the only people who could do it would be the people who could afford to take weeks off from work at a time whenever the legislature was in session. That was why George Washington reluctantly accepted a salary as president; he didn't need it, but he didn't want to set a precedent where only the super wealthy could afford to take the position.
                      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                        Then the only people who could do it would be the people who could afford to take weeks off from work at a time whenever the legislature was in session. That was why George Washington reluctantly accepted a salary as president; he didn't need it, but he didn't want to set a precedent where only the super wealthy could afford to take the position.
                        I have been in that situation as bi-vocational pastor at times - I didn't need a salary, but the Church needed to get used to paying for one. I had the option, at least, of turning my salary back in as tithes.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                          I'd love to see "politician" in general become a part-time, unpaid profession. Force them to actually work for a living.
                          My role model for a politician is Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus who, despite being granted supreme power twice, held onto it for not a day longer than absolutely necessary, voluntarily stepping down the instant the crises had passed.

                          I'm always still in trouble again

                          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                            Then the only people who could do it would be the people who could afford to take weeks off from work at a time whenever the legislature was in session. That was why George Washington reluctantly accepted a salary as president; he didn't need it, but he didn't want to set a precedent where only the super wealthy could afford to take the position.
                            Exactly. If anything our elected representatives are underpaid compared to the importance of their jobs, particularly considering the general lack of job security due to the obvious possibility of losing re-election. I've long thought this article (although from 2014) made some good points in regards to this:
                            ...the rest of us need to face up to the fact that we are being incredibly penny wise and pound foolish with the salaries we pay for those who control millions of dollars at the municipal level, billions of dollars at the state level and trillions of dollars at the federal level.

                            A successful economist, engineer or surgeon who leaves the private sector to become a member of Congress would take a serious pay cut. A Corporate CEO would have to take an even bigger pay cut to become President of the United States.

                            If the current mess in Washington doesn't convince us that we need better people in public office, it is hard to know what could.

                            What do we do when we want a more upscale product -- a better house or car for example? We pay more to get it!

                            If we want better people in government, we are going to have to start paying them enough that people would not be sacrificing their families' well-being by going to Washington or a state capitol, or serving as a judge.

                            It is not a question of whether the people currently serving in Congress, the courts or as chief executives at the municipal, state or national level deserve a raise. Most of them don't. It is a question of whether we need far better replacements for them.

                            That means drawing from a wider pool, including people with real knowledge and expertise in the private sector, who currently make a lot more money than we are paying government officials. Cheap politicians turn out to be very expensive politicians, in the way they waste money, even if they are not stealing it.

                            We could pay every member of Congress a million dollars a year -- for a whole century -- for less than it costs to run the Department of Agriculture for one year.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Terraceth View Post
                              Exactly. If anything our elected representatives are underpaid compared to the importance of their jobs, particularly considering the general lack of job security due to the obvious possibility of losing re-election. I've long thought this article (although from 2014) made some good points in regards to this:
                              I don’t know, I mean, how many members of Congress are millionaires?
                              "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                              GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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