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You are not going to be able to buy off 30,000 reps if you are a lobyist. More reps and less staff are the way to win back democracy.
by danieltillett 7y ago
You are not going to be able to buy off 30,000 reps if you are a lobyist. More reps and less staff are the way to win back democracy.
- kingkawn 7y agoIt is probably cheaper to buy off a large number of low-power reps than a smaller number of high power ones
- danieltillett 7y agoIt might be cheaper, but it is going to be hard to organise.
- IgorPartola 7y agoI don’t know. Russia seems to have bought McConnell no problem.
- rocqua 7y agoMoreover, if the reps have fewer staff, they will probably rely more on lobbyists for research.
- rtkwe 7y agoThere's loads of ways to solve it though. Let them form groups and pool money to pay for analysts and staff as blocks or beef up the OMB to provide better faster analysis of bills and let them use those. The pooling makes a lot of sense to me because with groups that large you're going to have to form shared interest groups just to have reasonable length debates.
- danieltillett 7y agoNot if actual experts get elected. With 30,000 reps you are going to get a wide variety of people elected many of who will know something about the world outside of politics. If you include the staff there already are 30,000 reps, just that most of them are not elected. The current system is more like having 450 mini corporations running the place.