Rep. Carol Shea-Porter promised, before successive terms as our District 1 House winner going to D.C., that she’d not become rich while there. (Not take advantage.) It happened. Charts showing money-worth had her last. A wealth chart now – Google: Quiver Quantitative.com/congress-live-net-worth. Richest is Sen. Rick Scott (R – Florida) with $552.24 million. 2nd is Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D – California) with $260.80 million. Some are at the bottom, worth $13,000, even $3,000. Another chart has the surprising lowest, a CA Representative to Congress, in debt at $17.5 million related to his dairy farming business.

One election strategy, either party, is to get moderates’ votes. I want to bring (skewing all) income into the picture. Since our Granny D’s effort to get big money out of politics, walking x-country to highlight the need, money influencing elections has gotten worse, buying contact with the public. Untrue statements come at us to a sickening degree. Politics is a downer. Yet the fabric of our everyday world can be shredded fast, due to those elections. I just heard Trump’s voice on NPR telling Wal-mart they shouldn’t raise their prices, as they’ve announced Trump tariffs will cause. U.S. Weather Bureau’s funds cut. Storm warnings? FEMA budget cut. There to help? Medicaid cut. Health-care costs help?

Should the super-rich, apt to be blind to bottom-income-level struggles, and looking at tax cuts for the rich, be voting on OUR budget? Okay – new top age-level limit for President? Also new top wealth-limit for Congress? Point – let people win our elections.