We will have to insist on limits for donations. We need both the Senate and the House in order to get it done. But if your representative doesn’t vote for it then you need to vote for someone who will. Raise your voice and spread the word.
We will have to insist on limits for donations. We need both the Senate and the House in order to get it done. But if your representative doesn’t vote for it then you need to vote for someone who will. Raise your voice and spread the word.
Karen & Pamela, I think we can get private money out of politics. Like Karen said, it’ll require a Dem
majority in both the House & Senate to pass legislation overhauling campaign finance, but we
might actually have that after the upcoming election.
Personally, I think we need to finance campaigns
for federal offices with public money exclusively.
A certain amount should be set aside for campaign finance in every national budget. I’m afraid if we leave private money as part of the funding, the grifters in Congress will find a way to exploit it and
we’ll eventually be right back where we started.
As things are now, we are spending billions of
dollars on campaigns. There are entire industries
that exist for the purpose of promoting candidates
& funding campaigns and they will fight tooth & nail against using public money. In fact it has become
almost common knowledge that, although it’s illegal,
a substantial amount of foreign money is finding its
way into campaigns. What that means is, we don’t
know how many of our representatives are beholden to foreign governments for helping them get elected.
That’s a recipe for disaster.
Funding campaigns with private money has corrupted the entire republican party and our
Supreme Court majority. Eventually it will corrupt
every aspect of our government, which means we
will no longer have a representative democracy.
We are well on our way to an oligarchy right now.
There are other precautions needed as well. For example, some elected representatives have been
using inside information to make investments in
the market. Technically that’s illegal, but if most
of our representatives are doing it anyway, they’ll
never pass a law that requires them to personally
disengage from their finances, which is what it will take. They should have to hand over proof of it
before they can be seated in Congress.
The federal election campaign board, (fec) needs
to be overhauled as well. The republican members
formerly on the fec allowed republicans to subvert campaign laws having to do with campaign finance and there was nothing anyone could do about it at the time. When corruption has become that rampant
and when loyalties to corrupt candidates is that widespread, we’re in a heap of trouble.
If you want to know how I know these things, here’s
how—it’s info on the internet for anyone to find. How do I know what I find on the internet is real? Because
some of it was posted on the internet by people in
our government who are in a position to know these things and there’s also info from news outlets that was vetted by reporters before being published. It’s
We will have to insist on limits for donations. We need both the Senate and the House in order to get it done. But if your representative doesn’t vote for it then you need to vote for someone who will. Raise your voice and spread the word.
Karen & Pamela, I think we can get private money out of politics. Like Karen said, it’ll require a Dem
majority in both the House & Senate to pass legislation overhauling campaign finance, but we
might actually have that after the upcoming election.
Personally, I think we need to finance campaigns
for federal offices with public money exclusively.
A certain amount should be set aside for campaign finance in every national budget. I’m afraid if we leave private money as part of the funding, the grifters in Congress will find a way to exploit it and
we’ll eventually be right back where we started.
As things are now, we are spending billions of
dollars on campaigns. There are entire industries
that exist for the purpose of promoting candidates
& funding campaigns and they will fight tooth & nail against using public money. In fact it has become
almost common knowledge that, although it’s illegal,
a substantial amount of foreign money is finding its
way into campaigns. What that means is, we don’t
know how many of our representatives are beholden to foreign governments for helping them get elected.
That’s a recipe for disaster.
Funding campaigns with private money has corrupted the entire republican party and our
Supreme Court majority. Eventually it will corrupt
every aspect of our government, which means we
will no longer have a representative democracy.
We are well on our way to an oligarchy right now.
There are other precautions needed as well. For example, some elected representatives have been
using inside information to make investments in
the market. Technically that’s illegal, but if most
of our representatives are doing it anyway, they’ll
never pass a law that requires them to personally
disengage from their finances, which is what it will take. They should have to hand over proof of it
before they can be seated in Congress.
The federal election campaign board, (fec) needs
to be overhauled as well. The republican members
formerly on the fec allowed republicans to subvert campaign laws having to do with campaign finance and there was nothing anyone could do about it at the time. When corruption has become that rampant
and when loyalties to corrupt candidates is that widespread, we’re in a heap of trouble.
If you want to know how I know these things, here’s
how—it’s info on the internet for anyone to find. How do I know what I find on the internet is real? Because
some of it was posted on the internet by people in
our government who are in a position to know these things and there’s also info from news outlets that was vetted by reporters before being published. It’s
that rampant.