Nine Dog Society Election Law

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It has become painfully obvious in the last few years, with the collapse of the economy and the outrageous acts of the rich and powerful, that the biggest problem the United States faces isn't terrorism, isn't global warming, isn't any of the individual issues that plague our nation. The single biggest problem we face is our own political system.
Through campaign and lobbying laws our political system has become little more than legalized bribery.
In an effort to end the march toward oppression that we all face, We the People in the form of the undersigned hereby propose the following law be enacted with all due haste.

It shall be the law that campaigns for public office in the United States will be financed solely by the private citizens thereof. Citizens shall be allowed to donate up to $100 per campaign cycle to the candidate of their choice, and those contributions shall be matched by the FEC using funds from the election check off on US tax forms. The FEC shall disburse those funds only in direct correlation to contributions reported to them under current disclosure laws. No contributions from any entity other than private citizens shall be allowed, and violation of this statute will result in permanent disqualification from elected office for the violator. The FEC shall create and maintain a publicly accessible website containing all relevant data and shall create a paper backup file and shall comply without condition with any request made under the Freedom of Information Act

We believe that whatever great issues we face as a nation it is essential to the public good that our government be beholding to the people themselves and no other entity.

88 Signatures

  • Gale Nelson
    • Comments
    • This is vitally important to our nation.
  • M. Foss
  • Rob Backues
    • Comments
    • Election laws must be simplified to be effective.
  • Timothy F. Stanley
    • Comments
    • Corporations are NOT citizens.
  • Jeanette Sherard
  • Kevin Morris
  • Patt Reid-Polenz
    • Comments
    • I consider this to be a serious and viable offering.
  • Emily Feagin
  • Cheri Ross
    • Comments
    • Finally a grassroots movement I can get behind.
  • Kevin C. Logan
  • Kelly Arellanes
    • Comments
    • This is an open and upfront need that we, the people, do strongly need!
  • Laura Shriner
  • Teresa A. Van Remortel
    • Comments
    • Lobbyists, PACS, corporations and special interest groups who line our elected officials pockets often make them renege on the very promises they made to the people who put them in office as evidenced clearly by the elimination of the public option and other pertinent portions of this bill that would have made a real difference in the lives of many Americans like me and this is just one example of many where money is the real factor that dictates what our Congressmen decide to do and it has to stop!!!
  • Peter Sassi
  • Christine Krystofik
  • Walter E. Williams III
    • Comments
    • mtduffer@bresnan.net
  • John Brooks
  • Fay Lind
  • Gordon Andrews
    • Comments
    • Great Idea! Its the special interests $ that has corrupted Congress!
  • Willard Jackson III
  • Gabby
    • Comments
    • End the march toward oppression
  • Wally Klingensmith
    • Comments
    • I believe the petition should be changed to say : "No contributions from any entity other than private citizens shall be allowed, and violation of this statute will result in permanent lifetime disqualification of the violator from holding any U.S. Federal elected or appointed office."
  • Teresa Simmons
  • Darwin B Phillips
    • Comments
    • One of WE THE PEOPLE
  • Pamela Pendergraft
    • Comments
    • We must take our country back
  • Macario Canillas Jr.
  • Robert Stephenson
  • Allan S. Maines
    • Comments
    • The recent ruling by the Supreme Court is an abomination and an afront to my freedom!
  • Hazel Garnett
    • Comments
    • These changes are needed in order to have a just democratic society, and all legislators should want to be a part of this action.
  • Mary VanGorder
  • Deborah Stowers
    • Comments
    • No comment needed.
  • Andy Gee
  • Frank Schmeisser
  • Rick Cutcliffe
  • Carol Corrao
  • Daniel Perkins
  • Stuart Abrams
  • Holly Caster
  • Gayle Davis
    • Comments
    • It is about time that OUR government responds to the voices of WE THE PEOPLE instead of the corporatists who are destroying our country.
  • Thomas Gansel
  • cyndie webster
    • Comments
    • Sick and tired of the corporate hijacking of US democracy. Our system is wraught with corruption.
  • Brian Kline
    • Comments
    • Stop Corporations from running OUR government
  • William Nitram
    • Comments
    • В
  • larry f west
  • Hamza Lee
  • Kathlyn MacCartney
  • Cynthia Sue Timko
  • Carla Johnson
    • Comments
    • I respectfully request the cessation of progressive enslavement of the low and middle income.
  • Gail Archibald
  • David Collins