Sir;...I don't mean to be cynical; but perhaps people are elected because they lie, and because the people know they lie, and because voters really do not want the truth...It is possible that the only time some voters are treated as human beings deserving of any respect is when their representative asks for their vote... It's possible...I know a women who spends her self broke at every opportunity...It is only because when she goes to buy something, people treat her like a human being... Sans l'argent, Sans l'respect...Same with voters... Once every few years they get to be some body...They get to see some usually male prostitute begin roasting his eternal soul before their very eyes for their vote... It is a morality play; but it would not be possible if the people were not corrupt themselves, knowing they are corrupt, and fearing the corruption of their neighbors... What is the point now, if we should have some real democracy, and change nothing else about our system??? The poor, the minority, and the powerless would as much be the vitims tomorrow as today...Only if protection for every person could be made law, so each is free in his own affairs so long as he does not affect others, so that his affairs do not become theirs- would true democracy work... Thinking majority rule is democracy, we are all in danger from a tyranny of the majority... The religious right wants to command our lives with a simple majority... Even when they cannot reach a majority they still feel entitled to rule our lives... They will never be bound by the laws of man, but they would bind all with their conception of the laws of God...It is only more corruption... It is not freedom...It is not democracy... Majority rule is the method by which we have been ruled, and our rights denied... We can be ruined by halves, and we have been...But it is a corruption of democracy, when we could demand full respect, to have to settle for some show of respect every few years... We settle for less because knowing our own corruption, we cannot trust the corruption of others...That is the problem that needs fixing...Everyone has to give up the ability to bother others in the pursuit of their own best interest if it does not affect them...It is out of our desire to rule that we are ruled..It is nonsense to think societies are corrupt from the top down... They are corrupt from the bottom up, and corrupt though and through...If we were not all to some degree corrupt the corruption at the top would make us revolt... We all have no virtue..We all want to turn that corruption to our benefit, and so we inevitably must suffer it....Thanks...Sweeney

Barbara Cubin did renege on her promise on term limits; however, she did not run for re-election in 2008, let alone win with a 13% margin.