Fire 99% of all elected officials
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Fire 99% of all elected officials Posted on Jul 27 2007 at 6:57pm by Important Ballot Items for 2008:
Want green collar jobs,alternative energy, jobs back to america and healthcare for all? Fire 99% of all elected officials!
Why is it Americans cannot elect a representative instead of a name from corporate america? What is the romance? Why do americans fall over themselves for political media stars and fat cats? Have we not learned that these people NEVER make things better they just continue the corporate welfare and watch american jobs go abroad. It really stinks!
The news media and corporate america do NOT need to decide who OUR candidates should be for local,state or federal level representation.
The media takes in a ton of cash during our election periods and play a huge role in selecting candidates for all sides of the aisle. Then THEY decide who should participate in televised debates as if no one else matters to the voters. Yes they also seem to decide which issues are important to voters and many times miss the mark. The media has become a large part of the special interest takeover of our process as if they know what is best for all of us. Voters support this takeover by voting for those candidates who also spend the most money and the question is why?
Campaigns go too long,spend way too much money and do not necessarily provide the best available. It is up to us to stop the nonsense at the voting booths on the 2008 ballot.
Not voting sends the wrong message and changes nothing.
Lets’s demand a new system and vote in Fair Vote America : http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
Demand a change on the 2008 ballot.
The big money candidates are more beholden than ever to corporate special interests due to the very long nature of campaigns. How do they have time to do the job they were elected to do? We need public financing of campaigns. Citizens cannot afford special interest money campaigns for it is the citizens that get left out.
http://www.publicampaign.org/
Who would be against Public Funding? The special interest money providers and their bought and paid for politicians!
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RE: Fire 99% of all elected officials Posted on Oct 3 2007 at 3:39pm by This is such a great idea it staggers me that nobody has posted a response to it.
I would like to amend this idea a little bit and propose something quite similar but which I think is a bit more possible in the short term. This next election cycle in '08 we should all vote in a representative that has not been holding the seat. We should just do away with every single incumbent person.THIS is possible and it would send a HUGE message to capital hill that the voters are taking no prisoners and are to be feared by politicians who do not really do their jobs and accept corporate handouts in exchange for political support.
This would change the way that incumbents run their campaigns for re-election and possibly most importantly, it would make it much harder for special interest lobbyists to bribe everyone who is running for office. Right now they can just hedge their bets knowing that 70% of incumbents will be re-elected. Let's force them to spend more money bribing politicians. I guarantee you more political action will start to match the public will this way.RE: Fire 99% of all elected officials Posted on Nov 8 2007 at 12:40am by I want on this wagon! I'm all for it, but am not a politically minded person. I don't understand too much of the political jargon. I just know they aren't doing their jobs, but they get astronomical paychecks while I myself am living at or below poverty level, though I am a hard working citizen sick of minimum wage. I want them FIRED!!!--How about 99.9% even? I'm all for it--just tell me what to do and why I should do it.
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