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(5,272 posts)your state or district or maintains a status quo that helps people in your state or district, if it sickens the country for the privilege. I do understand not being able to stop something and taking a piece of it for your state, even if I don't like that so much...for instance Sanders when it comes to the f-35 program, but Corey could have been among the Senators to adopt this amendment into the greater bill.
I grant, sometimes we have principled standouts on measures. I don't actually expect our officials to vote in lock step and I'm not always in agreement with the party line. But when things look on the surface like a conflict of interest, I think its incumbent upon our incumbents to have a very good explanation for their vote, so we should demand that. Throwing people out does not do us that much good. Putting a lot of scrutiny and pressure on our own politicians is a must, however, so that they can do the hard thing already, whether they want to or not.
As to his record, he has always struck me from my previous introductions to him as a fairly pro-corporate Democrat. That could entirely be on principle, and the money would follow either way, but it's not overly convincing to me that he should be serving if we have better options. As to him being a good man, wasn't he the guy who went into a burning building and pulled somebody out of it? I would never want to suggest that people aren't complicated.