I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.
I believe in enforcing the laws as written by the Legislature, as signed by the governor.