A Single House Upon A Hill

Cross posted from Blue Jersey. I hope you have a comment you want to make, but please make it there.

Huntsu mentions calls for a state constitutional convention in his diary on the timidity of the legislature. And it's not only timidity our current system fosters, it's the corruption that ebbs and flows, but always remains much higher than we'd like.

The heart of the problem is the individual legislators' relative anonymity. Most well-informed voters probably know who at least one of their legislators is, especially if the voter comes from a town large enough or lucky enough to have one of its own political figures in the legislature. But how many, even among primary voters, could name all three?

I don't know what solutions she thinks a convention would or should come up with, but I know of one change that would make for a more accountable and probably courageous set of legislators. It sounds radical, but it's been in place n Nebraska since 1937. ( Read more... )

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I'm on a trial run as a potential front pager at Blue Jersey. I have to come up with three New Jersey policy/politics posts a week for a few weeks, for me and Juan (the editor) to see if we both want me as a regular there. Any support you want to give, by engaging in conversation in my posts there, would be nice.