To: Bernie Sanders and all presidential candidates
Tell Bernie Sanders: no bribing delegates!
Elections should be decided on experience and ideas -- not backroom bribes. Please publicly pledge not to provide cash, gifts, travel beyond reasonable reimbursement costs for attendance at the convention, food, and/or other tangible or intangible gifts to delegates.
Why is this important?
Bribing voters is illegal. Bribing delegates isn’t -- but should be. Tell Bernie Sanders and the rest of the presidential candidates to take the #NoDelegateBribes pledge.
As competition for delegates grows fierce in both parties' primaries, the presidential campaigns may resorting to "delegate buying." Campaigns can lavish delegates with gifts and free travel, in hopes of influencing their votes at the convention.
That's not how our democracy should work. Delegates shouldn’t be tempted to support the candidate who gave them the most gifts.
We're calling on candidates to take the "No Delegate Bribes" pledge -- to refrain from offering delegates anything of value in an attempt to swing their votes, and urge independent groups that support them to do the same. Candidates also must support changing convention rules to expressly forbid this sort of delegate buying. Anything less than that undermines public trust in our democracy, and reinforces voters' cynicism about our political process.
Join Common Cause in asking Bernie Sanders and the rest of the presidential candidates to sign the #NoDelegateBribes pledge. It would send a clear message that this election is about the voters -- not backroom bribes.
As competition for delegates grows fierce in both parties' primaries, the presidential campaigns may resorting to "delegate buying." Campaigns can lavish delegates with gifts and free travel, in hopes of influencing their votes at the convention.
That's not how our democracy should work. Delegates shouldn’t be tempted to support the candidate who gave them the most gifts.
We're calling on candidates to take the "No Delegate Bribes" pledge -- to refrain from offering delegates anything of value in an attempt to swing their votes, and urge independent groups that support them to do the same. Candidates also must support changing convention rules to expressly forbid this sort of delegate buying. Anything less than that undermines public trust in our democracy, and reinforces voters' cynicism about our political process.
Join Common Cause in asking Bernie Sanders and the rest of the presidential candidates to sign the #NoDelegateBribes pledge. It would send a clear message that this election is about the voters -- not backroom bribes.