I want people in there who will honor and cherish the words and intent of our Constitution, not try to find ways around it. I want elected officials who take their oath of office seriously, even if it causes them hurt.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. — Justice Charles Evans Hughes

And I certainly do NOT want people in there who enforce our Constitution “as interpreted by the Supreme Court”, or some other Lawyer in a Robe (LiaR). Judges often appear as frustrated legislators; people who can't get elected to 'make law', so they legislate from the bench. Thus we get 'case law'.

I certainly have a distrust of anyone who makes a career out being an elected official. Let them serve a term or two, then go home. Keeping fresh blood in our Statehouse would keep fresh ideas in the pipeline, and might help to hold the lobbyists at bay.

Just a select few determine which way the herd is supposed to jump. Those select few are less likely to be ordinary people trying to do a good job.

And, for the rest, I doubt they even see that their lack of individual responsibility to their constituents is happening.

BUT, when it's time for the taxpayers to speak (after waiting for hours), the meetings are adjourned.

“Every bill passed gets the input of the people.” Really? Why didn't government give us the opportunity to vote on the new Colt's playground?

They admitted — after the fact — that if the People were given the opportunity to vote on the 'project', that it would have been voted down.

If those reprobates were REALLY there for “We the People” and not “They Themselves”, then they would NOT vote for their own payraises — they would defer to us. They would not vote for that golden insurance policy for themselves and their families.

I could go on and on. Most here don't seem to be a naive as others.

Good motives may always be assumed, as bad motives may always be imputed. Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it, even if we were sure that they existed.

It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. When bad intentions are boldly avowed, the People will promptly take care of themselves.

On the other hand, they will always be asked, why they should resist, or question, that exercise of power, which is so fair in its object, so plausible and patriotic in appearance, and which has the public good alone, confessedly in view?

Human beings, we may be assured, will generally exercise power, when they can get it; and they will exercise it most undoubtedly, in popular Governments, under the pretences of public safety, or high public interest.

It may be very possible, that good intentions do really sometimes exist, when Constitutional restraints are disregarded.

There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. — DANIEL WEBSTER, IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE PROTEST AGAINST EXPUNGING, MONDAY JANUARY 16 1837

We won't get a check and we won't hold our politicians accountable.

We (most) are sheep. Baahhhh. We follow our party/people.

And the politicians continue to get re-elected. And Hoosiers continue to put up with this thing we call a “democratic republic government.

If nothing else, we decide on who we put in that position. And they know that.