{"id":750,"date":"2009-02-04T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T00:10:43","slug":"how-to-replace-a-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2009\/02\/how-to-replace-a-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to replace a Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made recently of Governors replacing Senators who have been asked to serve the new administration. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/01\/feingold-introduces-28th-amendment.html\">Feingold has proposed an amendment<\/a> that would require a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat as soon as possible. <small><i>(read the rest of the article I linked to at 538. It talks about what methods the various states use today)<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Why not go back to the original Senatorial appointment method and let the state legislature fill the vacant seat and let the citizens elect a replacement in the next general election. This reduces the chance for &#8216;pay to play&#8217; corruption, allows the new Senator to be a consensus choice of the people&#8217;s representatives, and saves some taxpayer money by eliminating the need for a special election. <\/p>\n<p>Of course this might make horse-trading Senate replacements more difficult since it can&#8217;t be guaranteed that the replacement will be of the party or persuasion you might want. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made recently of Governors replacing Senators who have been asked to serve the new administration. And Feingold has proposed an amendment that would require a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat as soon as possible. (read the rest of the article I linked to at 538. It talks about what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2009\/02\/how-to-replace-a-senator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to replace a Senator<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}