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Re: Are some of you guys making it too easy on the rest of us?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:31:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
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> > First off, choosing the senate as a basis for investigation is
> > flawed from the start because their terms are so long.
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> I'm not defending my post as a refutation of your claim, but I'm curious about
> this. How is long term limit a flaw?
The very idea of a senate was to provide a stabler body of legislators-- hence
the longer 6 year term. If you merely get re-elected, you have already logged
12 years.
Compare that to a rep, which would represent 6 terms.
I was thinking of it as an asset because
> it supplies a venue in which long periods of public service are reasonably
> possible. I'm not interested enough to track careers from county clerk through
> two terms of House representation and note all the times and stuff.
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> > Second, he calls a senator who has merely won his third term (but not served 1
> > day of the third term) a "long-timer".
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> Actually, by the way that I did the math, I think they have to have served
> about half a year of the third term (or more if their first term was
> fractional). But I do figure that most senators did politics before to _some_
> extent, so it's not really their career in a vaccuum.
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> > Even he admitted that his exercise was inconclusive.
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> Do you actually have support for the 5:1 claim? I figured you were just
> shooting from the hip and I wasn't really interested in bugging you about the
> specific accuracy of your claim. But if you do have data, I'd be interested.
Yes, shooting from the hip, and not the time or inclination to research it
(because it seems too time-consuming to do so as I stated it) and I'm not sure
it would prove anything significant even if it were true.
I'll retract and put it to rest:-)
-John
-John
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