To: You, Potential catalyst for real change., President Donald Trump, The New Hampshire State House, The New Hampshire State Senate, Governor Chris Sununu, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Eliminate Influence Peddling In Our Elections and Increase Popular Ballot Access To Individuals a...
This petition is to call for a legislative ban on private electioneering and campaign contributions and the establishment of a publicly funded, ballot based system of election for public offices.
The call is to have created, a system wherein all individual and partisan efforts to campaign for public office are done so with a leveled and even amount of granted public funds, used in place of current private fund raising schemes. Funding for elections will be granted based on demonstrated public support for a given party or candidate, itself based on ballot initiatives and extended rounds of voting, ranging from the local, to the region and onward to national and district elections.
As influence within the present system is bought and established well ahead of time by which ever institution provides the greatest campaign support, it is the goal of this petition to address this inequality of speech created by legislation such as the Citizens United ruling and the overturning of the Glass Steagall act, wherein the power of one's individual franchise (their vote) is supersceded according to a darwinian scheme of individual and institutional sovereignty trumping that of popular sovereignty (the core principle behind original Republican theory and the founding of this nation.)
Please sign this petition and lend your voice to the cause. For regardless of partisan loyalty, political ambition, your chosen religion, ideology or values set and beyond even your most strongly held issue, not an ounce of real change will ever be seen until the partisan mold, secured by an institution of corruption and horse trading, is brought to an end. This nation was founded to be a republic and it has evolved into a corporatocracy. Into an autocracy. Its time we demand Congress, the Senate and the President himself to take the issues of campaign finance and private electioneering seriously, or be voted out entirely. Because until we clean up the systems by which our government is formed, the arguments we wish to be held in the halls of power, will never be herd by anyone other than those with which WE argue. Let the soundess of our thoughts mean more than that and let the power of our voices be heard.
The call is to have created, a system wherein all individual and partisan efforts to campaign for public office are done so with a leveled and even amount of granted public funds, used in place of current private fund raising schemes. Funding for elections will be granted based on demonstrated public support for a given party or candidate, itself based on ballot initiatives and extended rounds of voting, ranging from the local, to the region and onward to national and district elections.
As influence within the present system is bought and established well ahead of time by which ever institution provides the greatest campaign support, it is the goal of this petition to address this inequality of speech created by legislation such as the Citizens United ruling and the overturning of the Glass Steagall act, wherein the power of one's individual franchise (their vote) is supersceded according to a darwinian scheme of individual and institutional sovereignty trumping that of popular sovereignty (the core principle behind original Republican theory and the founding of this nation.)
Please sign this petition and lend your voice to the cause. For regardless of partisan loyalty, political ambition, your chosen religion, ideology or values set and beyond even your most strongly held issue, not an ounce of real change will ever be seen until the partisan mold, secured by an institution of corruption and horse trading, is brought to an end. This nation was founded to be a republic and it has evolved into a corporatocracy. Into an autocracy. Its time we demand Congress, the Senate and the President himself to take the issues of campaign finance and private electioneering seriously, or be voted out entirely. Because until we clean up the systems by which our government is formed, the arguments we wish to be held in the halls of power, will never be herd by anyone other than those with which WE argue. Let the soundess of our thoughts mean more than that and let the power of our voices be heard.
Why is this important?
Private campaign financing and electioneering, be it from corporations, unions, PACs or individuals, has skewed the nature and function of our government. This petition is to call on the United States to place an outright ban on private show-boat elections and to reform the system to a publicly funded, democratically based system of ballot initiative, petition and election rounds.