Ken Buck Clarifies Position: He Doesn't Want To Repeal 17th Amendment

[ccharles000]

Newly nominated Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck clarified on Friday a statement he had more than a year ago in which he said he supported efforts to repeal the amendment allowing for the popular election of candidates like him to the United States Senate.

In a brief phone call to the Huffington Post, Buck said that he did not favor repealing the 17th Amendment, which allows the public, not state legislatures, to vote on who represents them in the Senate. As late as June 2009, Buck had held the opposite view, telling the Pikes Peak Economics Club, that the American public needed to be educated "about the populist nature of the 17th Amendment and how it has taken us down the wrong path."

"I don't know that we get tomorrow, but I think we get there in the very near future when people understand just what a horrendous effect the 17th amendment has been on the federal government's spending."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/ken-buck-clarifies-positi_n_681777.html

[karynnj]

1. He is right that the 17th amendment is populist - it is in all the best meanings of the word

The shock is that he was actually against it. It really says that he was - and likely still is - pretty far out there.

[Arkana]

2. Dumbass. Guess he realized that without it he wouldn't be running for Senate

right now.