90 Days Without A Senator For Minnesota

[Dinger]

Isn't this a bit ridiculous???

[DU9598]

1. Yes

The system in Minnesota - and other states - needs a mechanism where some representation is provided in the interim of a court challenge. The winner of the recount is a good candidate to to the representing, IMO.

[jwirr]

2. Doesn't the Constitution guarantee us 2 Senators? I am furious that

my state does not have 2.

[dflprincess]

3. We've only had one senator since Oct 25 2002

Normie was there to represent Bushco, not us.

[jwirr]

5. Absolutely and I guess that makes us better off now than then. But

I so much want to be in the fight with both votes to help President Obama.

[suston96]

4. Ironically, that was the very reason the Seventeenth Amendment was passed......

Bickering partisan state legislatures couldn't agree on a choice and some states went not months, but years without a US Senator.

So much so, that many states, almost enough states, had issued convention calls - for a Second Constitutional Convention - specifically to fix this problem by establishing direct elections of US Senators.

Congress acted quickly when it looked like the last few states would issue con-con calls and there could be - Congress felt - a constitutional rewrite disaster.

The Seventeenth passed very quickly.