One of things I am looking forward to doing whilst posting here is to get some positive feedback and dialogue on certain issues that I, and probably many others, believe to be important. LTE’s is not the correct venue for that.
One of the issues is election reform, and I’m talking from the bottom up. From paper trail ballots, to having the elections no longer controlled by special interest monies.
It’s a tall order to research, however grass root ideas start this way, with one person putting it out there and the collective community participating in the brain storming process.
In the next few days I’ll be posting more thoughts on this subject, it sickens me that WE THE PEOPLE are being sold out as if we’re the lowest common denominator.
Any Ideas would be of value.
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I always like to start with whatever kind of aggregative sites I can find. A quick search reveals the following (in no particular order):
* http://www.electionreformproject.org/
* http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=34044
* http://aceproject.org/regions-en/countries-and-territories/US/default?set_language=en
* http://osdv.org/
* http://www.trustthevote.org/
* http://vote.caltech.edu/drupal/
* http://www.whytuesday.org/
* http://www.reformelections.org/
There's a start....
My not so tongue in cheek answer to campaign finance reform is to limit election spending to the expected income for the duration of the position. As soon as you spend more to get elected than the job pays you owe someone. If you spend more of your own money than the job pays you are expecting to GET paid.
In my perfect little word, and one I personally think would be great for our nation is that elections were not bought by contributions, and to take it one step further, contributing to a candidate for political office should be illegal, not unlike a bribe.
Now I'm sure my perfect little world won't fly, at least not yet....
98507, thanks for the links, I've visited a couple of them briefly, but will be getting more serious in the next few days.
Anon the Great, I agree with you 100% on that statement.
Limit campaign donations to individual donors of no more than $100 each.
Watch the tide change.
And prohibit employers from giving money to employees and/or their families to contribute to favored campaigns.
No hedging of corporate bets by giving to both or all candidates for a position.
Get rid of the concept of "Corporate Personhood". Solve all kinds of corporate corruption opportunities.
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