We will have a legislature that is not for sale when we end the practice of financing campaigns by soliciting donations from interests that want something in return. 
 
The solution is simple. Place an initiative on the ballot offering voters the chance to pass legislation requiring five years of imprisonment for elected officials who fail to declare a conflict of interest and recuse themselves from voting on legislation appropriating state and/or federal resources to themselves, their family, their employers, their business partners, their contributors, and persons showering them with gifts. Extend the penalty to those who benefit from buying favors and give the statute a ten year statute of limitations. The risk would make the statute self enforcing. Seedy characters may have their deal cut with the existing AG or Governor but there will be a new Governor before the statute runs. Nine of nine the US Supreme Justices say we can do this. Let's fix it.