You people all miss the point. You debate and argue over who said what and who promised this and that.
They are all liars. All parties involved will say and do whatever it takes to get power, and will turn around and do all the same things that the last party in power did.
It is all a game to the politicians. If they don't win, do they have to go find another job after? No, they still collect a huge salary from us and go sit on the bench and jeer the winners for the next 4 years. If they do win, they give themselves a big raise on our dime, pat each other on the backs and say. "See you in the finals next time" What a joke. On us. Our one political power is our vote, and it has no power when our only choices treat election to power like winning the Stanley cup. I have voted every year of my adult life because it is all I can do. I see the futility of it more and more as the years go by. The only thing that keeps me voting is a little shred of hope that something will get better. It's this hope that will probably keep us all birds in a gilded cage.
I may just as well go vote for the Marijuana party
