Goooh

[halfnote19]

I ran across this website and found it quite interesting. www.goooh.com

GOOOH stands for 'Get Out of Our House' and is pronounced like the word 'go'. It is a NON-PARTISAN plan to evict the 435 career politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and replace them with everyday Americans just like you

I like the idea but don't know if it will really work. What do you think?

 

[crushing]

Make it 434 politicians. It's the other voter's politician that is the problem, plus we already have a method (or two) in place to deal with our own representative.

 

[CoryKS]

Sounds like yet another group who want to dismantle the democratic process in order to get what they want. Those 'career politicians' they refer to were voted into the office. The fact that they remain in office for many years means that they are considered by enough of their voters to have done a good job. This group claims to be 'non-partisan', but there has to be an underlying assumption about what would happen if common folk ran the house. They're not just doing this because they think it would be fun to see what it would be like.

 

[halfnote19]

Sounds like yet another group who want to dismantle the democratic process in order to get what they want.

How are they dismantling the democratic process? All they are doing is helping people who want to run to get funds to run with out having to go to special interest.

Those 'career politicians' they refer to were voted into the office. The fact that they remain in office for many years means that they are considered by enough of their voters to have done a good job.

Just because they stay in office does not mean they are doing a good job. It just means no one else ran against them.

In the 2000 Congressional Elections out of the 435 Congressional districts in which there were election, 359 were listed as "safe" by Congressional Quarterly