The definition of a professional politician is a politician whose sole income is from his job as an elected official. If we want to eliminate campaign funding from lobbyists (and all sorts of, um, under the table funding, too), I'm all for that.
I don't think we'd see all together different people running for office, but I do think that politicians would cease being utterly beholden to whatever special interest owns them on that particular day.
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