Your last post is overbroad, Jack. While it is true that the majority (or at least a plurality if more than one candidate) support the office holder, that doesn't mean the majority support every bill s/he introduces or votes for. Most people (not all) vote strictly by party; some, a particular issue of pressing importance to them.

Among the most nonsensical thing governing bodies have done, I've never hear of a councilman running on the 'ban cigarettes in pharmacies' platform, or a school board candidate vowing to eliminate stoop tag and dodge ball at recess if elected. And I've never heard of a governor promising to cut all state employees salaries to minimum wage to get the office. Yet all of these things--and more--have occurred.

The only recourse is the courts and/or the next election.