This is why I'm strongly in favor of term limits; always have been.
Nebraska finally got a term-limit law that met the "standards" of the Supreme Court back in 2002, after, I dunno, almost thirty years of trying to get them.
Turnover in the state legislature (49 state senators; that's all we got, at $12,000 per year), has been 100% since 2002.
State taxes, to one extent or another, have gone down every single year since then.
Since they can be around only eight years, state senators don't have much of an opportunity to get "buddy-buddy" with the special interests. They know they're in there only a short time, and so are in a hurry to legislate on issues that got them elected in the first place.