Know your senators?

Question

how many people actually know their state senators without looking it up?

Answer 1

Arizona is easy. We have two famous ones. John McCain and Jon Kyle. Two famous Arizona Johns.

ha!

Answer 2

Know em?  I have them over to parties all the time.  I hate having to invite the democrat representatves, and I always have to hose fdown the yacht afterwards, but it's worth it for the cherry government contracts it get me.

Answer 3

In Texas it's easy: John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Huthison

Answer 4

I'm not sure if haystack2083 meant to say "state senators" or "state's senators."  Since he used the plural, and since any given citizen has only one state senator, he must have meant the latter.  any503 caught the confusion.  CHRISTOPHER K and Jorge D answered the question not actually asked.

No, I don't know the name of my state senator.  The irony is I actually wrote her a letter last year!  So I guess I should say I don't remember the name of my state senator.  As for my state's senators: Jeff Bingaman and Pete Domenici (which makes me the next-door neighbor to CHRISTOPHER  K.  Hi, neighbor.)

Answer 5

In what context do you use "State Senators"?

Usually, the saying refers to the U.S. Senators, which represent my state in the national Congress.  My U.S. Senators are Ron Wyden (D) & Gordon Smith (R).

Technically, it would mean the senator(s) from my city, which represents me in the state legislature.  I know the names of one of them, not the other (if there is another; not all states use the same legislative format.)

I live in Oregon.

Answer 6

My State Senator is Diane Savino.  I refused to vote for her because she made a huge deal about what a supporter of labor unions she is--but her campaign literature was all made in a non-union shop.  (I worked in a union print shop for a year while in college)  Her predecessor, Seymour Lachman, was a bigger jerk, and very dull to listen to.

I notice most other answerters are referring not to their State Senator but to the Senator from their state.  Mine are Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton.  Schumer is a great blatherer, and Clinton once invited herself to a meeting of a group where I was a delegate, and proceeded to gratuitously insult everyone in the room.  I haven't voted for either of them.

In case anyone reading this thinks I must be a hard core Republican, I didn't vote for them, either.  I usually vote third parties.  At least I'm not encouraging the SOBs.

Answer 7

I do, but I'm a professor of political science specializing in elections and the only close election in the entire STATE was in my state senatorial district.

However, I can't even tell you who my state representative is, and that's kinda my job!