Forum Post: How about a petition to outlaw campaign contribs over $100?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 21, 2011, 1:26 p.m. EST by number2
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I don't know maybe it should be less. All you really need to be elected anymore is facebook and that is free. Maybe your own website for a few hundred. I don't see any good reason for the hundreds of millions being raised.
How about NO money from private sources. Only money from the Federal general fund can be used for federal elections. Any candidate for Federal office that takes private money or goods of any kind spends a year in jail. (No bail) We would actually have our Federal Representatives working for us full time, rather than them spending 80% of their time asking for handouts.
number2, I would encourage you to consider what may be a hole in your reasoning.
You plan to "take money out of politics," right? Well, how much money have the protesters spent in NYC? Think about it dude. They've spent thousands of dollars. Each.
Yeah I don't know I just shot that out there. I know what the problem is, but not yet how to solve it.
of course, if you don't actually track who is contributing then you have gained nothing. This was being suggested by the current administration because contributions that are under $100 don't have to be tracked, so you can give under $100 as many times as you want....
add that to the language in the petition.
No good the unions buy all our politicians
yeah everybody with a little money does. Did you see microsoft was completely apolitical, then the government sued them. Ever since then they contribute to campaigns. Now the government is off their back. So even if you don't want to, they make you. If this was the only thing that came out of this movement, it would do alot of good.
I have a meetup.com group called nomoneypolitics.com join it promote it.
sounds good. I will
Thank you support the thread
try to keep this bumped too
Ok sounds good I'm in favor of publicly funded campaigns this 100$ stuff is just propaganda of union leadership
You don't like the $100 figure. why not?
Not all of America has it and it will create a snowball effect first one with 100$ wins
OK I was saying $100 maximum contribution. But now that is actually unaffordable for quite a few of us.
I am trying to do something similar in petition form on the We the People website hosted by the white house. Here is the link.
http://wh.gov/2zR
I think what would be better is a massive OWS movement petition. Like the first thing to really hit the media, coming out of OWS, is this non-partisan petition. Any politician arguing against it wouldn't look good at all.
I agree. I'll post an idea.
NEED 3,000 MORE SIGNATURES ON PETITION TO REVERSE CITIZENS UNITED BY OCTOBER 26. PLEASE SIGN.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/reverse-scotus-ruling-citizens-united-v-fec-constitutional-amendment-supporting-hjres78/vWTGSMJX
can you explain what this is about?
This was a supreme court ruling that allows corporate money to flood campaigns. Corporations can flood the opponents campaign with money against a progressive, liberal candidate. (2010), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment prohibits government from censoring political broadcasts in candidate elections when those broadcasts are funded by corporations or unions.
Haha, I am doing the same thing on the same site.
http://wh.gov/2zR