How is that repeal of the 17th Amendment going for Republican candidate for Congress, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist? Not so good. TPM :
....The "Repeal The 17th" movement is a vocal part of the overall tea party structure. Supporters of the plan say that ending the public vote for Senators would give the states more power to protect their own interests in Washington (and of course, give all of us "more liberty" in the process.) As their process of "vetting" candidates, some tea party groups have required candidates to weigh in on the idea of repeal in questionnaires. And that's where the trouble starts.In Ohio, Steve Stivers -- the Republican attempting to unseat Democratic Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy in the state's 15th District -- came under fire from Democrats when it was revealed he had checked the box saying he would repeal the 17th Amendment on a tea party survey (see question 11 here).
Kilroy's campaign set up a website slamming Stivers for the stance, and attacked him in the press......
Stivers admits now that he made an error in pushing for the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Why did he make the mistake? Did he think no one would find out his answers to the survey he filled out for the right wing group? Did he even know that the 17th Amendment was the one that allowed voters, and not state legislatures, to vote directly for their own U.S. Senators? Was Stivers really in favor in repealing the 17th Amendment but has flip-flopped on what he wants?
No matter the reason, Stivers looks like someone who is trying to take rights away from the voter. I am not happy with that idea on any level.
*****The Knox County Democrats visited a recent speech by John Kasich and noticed that there was something missing from his talk to the pitiful crowd of 200 people: "substance."
While Kasich talks in generalities, and goes on and on and on, he never mentions specifics. That would be too hard and cause people to really start asking questions. He won't tell you what services he'll cut, if elected. You can be assured that if elected, our lives will never be the same. Every Republican contributor that owns a company will get the contracts to take over parts of the state government. Good bye, public schools. Good bye, libraries. See you later, state parks.
Once you lose those services, agencies, public schools, state assets, they won't come back.