Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

Re:Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $15... by gumby on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:35PM (#29100609)

There is a minor way in which this situation can become a predicament. Outsiders who become governors don’t tend to have a network or know how the mechanisms work, so tend to either get nothing done or end up having little input into things being done by those who do know those things.

But having an outsider as a legislative member is generally a good thing.

In California we have term limits, so no member of the legislature (or any other position) can have the time to develop expertise. This gives lobbyists a lot more power.

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Re:Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $15... by travoc on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:46PM (#29100731)

For those who think government has too much power, getting nothing done isn’t as bad as it seems.

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Re:Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $15... by gumby on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:24PM (#29101221)

I kinda like having speed limits, food safety rules, building codes, courts, free vaccines (removing barriers to your vaccination helps me, just as mine helps you) and a bunch of other things governments do.

Having lived in countries both with and without generally well meaning and competent government, in my experience the former is vastly better despite its manifold faults.

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