Fix Washington is Out

Randy Kuhl's list of constituent ideas for fixing Washington is out. The Messenger-Post has a story on the effort.

Voting is now open, and Kuhl will introduce the highest-voted idea as a bill later this year.

The most commonly-suggested idea was term limits, which speaks for itself.

Comments

I assume Bonaventure NY refers to Olean, but I may be wrong. It is interesting that all the other comments come from the northern part of the District. Either the southern part of the district has no idea(s) -insert your punchline here- or he is trying to cozy up to the northern voters. My favorite is term limits.

Somebody from Ellicottville wanted term limits -- that's Southern Tier, isn't it? I won't make a Southern Tier joke. It looks to me like someone in the Pittsford Republican party called a few friends.

$75 million for a gasoline alternative was too vague -- there are hundreds of possible alternatives to gas. The credit card and stop loss proposals were both good, and NASA could do far better studying alternative energy than spending money to send men to the moon again.

I'm not a big term limits supporter, and definitely not 12 year limits.

My take is that he wanted to select centrist, or even slightly left-leaning, ideas, and that more of those come from the northern part of the district. Aside from term limits, those ideas aren't exactly conservative -- undoing the bankruptcy bill, ending stop-loss, and spending more on alternative fuels are all more Nancy Pelosi than George W. Bush.