EW Letter of the Week

When you have a non-reality based non-solution for "fixing" a corrupt political system, where do you turn to get your ideas out there? The Eugene Weekly, of course:

ENDING CORRUPTION

Alisa McLaughlin almost got it right in her Oct. 4 letter to the editor. She wrote, "Our votes are too valuable to give away, so I suggest, like the people we elected, you sell your vote to the highest bidder."

McLaughlin should advocate democracy instead. Under a democracy, special interests would have no influence because their bribes would be spread too thin to make a difference.

We need a statewide initiative that allows voters to vote directly on a bill or lend their votes to a fulltime representative in Salem. This initiative will give power to voters who refuse to vote for corrupt politicians.

T. Poulsen, Eugene