To get special interests out of politics, get Congress out of Washington

By Ralph Benko

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.congress02,0,2975827.story

We send our elected representatives far from home to conduct the people’s business. We send them to Washington, D.C., where they form what our flyboys (and flygirls) call “a
target-rich environment” for the lobbyists and for the political party
leadership.

We send them far from us … to conduct our business. There was no other way in
the 18th and 19th centuries and most of the 20th. In the 21st century, of
course, this is absurd.
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