Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Resign I say. Thus far, all three major presidential candidates are member of the United States Senate. Each are fully engaged with their respective campaigns. With that said, they should each demonstrate their dedication to their goals by doing what is right. The first candidate to resign from the Senate gets my respect. Before the month is over, each such resign the Senate.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Yeah, I always wondered why we tolerate this. If you were an employer, would you tolerate your employees spending all their time over a year and half looking for another job?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder That's baloney. No incumbent candidate whoever ran for higher office has done this. If they did such a thing, it will prevent other qualified candidates from ever running. Moreover, neither party would ever agree to this because if the sitting governor of a state is the opposite party of the senator, the office would switch seats. And if it were a governor running, that state would possibly run into the same problems with an ascending lt. governor.
Originally Posted By jonvn "No incumbent candidate whoever ran for higher office has done this." Nope. It's pretty silly. It's not how it works. It's the only way you get people to run for higher office. "If you were an employer, would you tolerate your employees spending all their time over a year and half looking for another job?" You are not required to quit your current job if you go look for another one.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Indeed jonvn is right. If you are in a management fast track programme, you do not quit your job before you are promoted. Same thing.
Originally Posted By johnno52 >If you were an employer, would you tolerate your employees spending all their time over a year and half looking for another job?" You are not required to quit your current job if you go look for another one.< Most people don't have this luxury! They usually look for a job after they lost their last one.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn "...No incumbent candidate whoever ran for higher office has done this..." That doesn't mean that they shouldn't resign. All candidates who have previously run for higher (or other) office SHOULD have resigned their current positions. It's not a matter of their own job security. It's a matter of the service of the position due to the people. Running for president is a 24-hour/day job. Effectively, New York, Illinois and Arizona have one Senator each. What a disservice.
Originally Posted By jonvn "They usually look for a job after they lost their last one." Maybe if you sell women's shoes for a living...
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I agree with mrktompsn - if one of us spent all this time looking for a better job and not doing the one we were originally hired to do - we wouldn't have any job!
Originally Posted By jonvn Aside from that, a lot of times people run for office, such as president, and do not file to run for their own office again. So very often someone who runs no longer has an office if they don't win.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy Senators have staffs to do all the heavy lifting for them anyway. It's not like their staff isn't carrying on the functions of the office. And in a Presidential election year, politicians don't accomplish anything anyway. Nobody wants to commit to a program that may not be in favor with the next round of officials elected into the White House. All of your Congressmen and women might as well take the rest of the year off.
Originally Posted By hightp While you're not required to quit your current job to go look for another one, I think my employer would be pretty upset if I sat here every day for a month and used the company time, computer and telephone, to find a job. They may even fire you for something like that.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn "Senators have staffs to do all the heavy lifting for them anyway. It's not like their staff isn't carrying on the functions of the office. And in a Presidential election year, politicians don't accomplish anything anyway. Nobody wants to commit to a program that may not be in favor with the next round of officials elected into the White House. All of your Congressmen and women might as well take the rest of the year off." Step out of your body and read that. How sad. It can all change beginning with resignations.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy It's also not in the interest of voters to have their Congressmen and women resign from office. They lose politicians with seniority to influence policy and appropriation of funds for their districts. Congress is designed to reward politicians (and the states they represent) who stick around the longest. If you have representatives resign, districts and states will find themselves back at the bottom of the pecking order when trying to obtain funding for programs from the federal government.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder mrkthompson, you're not responding to any arguments, you just keep repeating yourself. Step out of your own body and realize the cost to the taxpayers.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn "If you have representatives resign, districts and states will find themselves back at the bottom of the pecking order when trying to obtain funding for programs from the federal government." This is a GOOD thing.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << This is a GOOD thing. >> If you like for your state to be an also-ran, I guess so.
