Forum Post: What Politicians are with the 99% ?
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 22, 2011, 11:36 a.m. EST by antipolitics
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Are there ANY politicians that's on our side?!?
I just watched "The Inside Job", and it seemed we got royally screwed by the people who claims to be on our side. Namely Obama and Clinton.
So is there any Politicians on our side? Or do we have to get rid of ALL of them?
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Jill Stein seems on point.
Positions:
Jill Stein for President 2012Downsize Wall St.
Taxing Wall Street Speculation
Stopping Off Shore Tax-Havens
Taxing Multimillion Dollar Estates
30% Reduction in the U.S. Military Budget
Get Money Out of Politics
Green New Deal
Employ Every American
Health Care for Every American
Education for Every Student
A Home for Every Family
Bring Our Troops Home
Repeal the Patriot Act
Address Climate Change
Sustainable Energy Infrastructure
Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
Sustainable Production Infrastructure
Mass Transit
Regional Food Distribution
Organic Agriculture
Clean Manufacturing
http://metapolitik.org/content/time-green-president-draft-jill-stein-us-president-2012
http://www.jillstein.org/
... Also: Bernie Sanders
I won't sign anything that doesn't call for an end of wars
Gov. Buddy Roemer, perhaps. Not taking any BIG money, so far. Sadly, nobody knows him either. I really don't know much about his background though. He'd have to be vetted.
http://www.buddyroemer.com/
I've been looking into the green party
don't know too much about them yet
http://occupywallst.org/forum/what-politicians-are-with-the-99/#comment-193205
judging from this article I would say Senator Bernie Sanders of VT. Its good to note that his office released this LAST MARCH
http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=67562604-8280-4d56-8af4-a27f59d70de5
awesome, thank you, I will mark Bernie Sanders as 'pretty confirmed'
Possibly Jesse Ventura, possibly Ron Paul.
Ah, Jesse Ventura, nice...
So that makes 6 so far
Ron Paul? So he def. wants to separate Wall St. from Government? But doesn't he want to do all sort of other things, like de-regulate everything (aka let Corporations run amok) ?
How about Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine ? she seems to have a good head on her shoulders...
That's why I gave Paul a 'possibly', and possibly by a slim margin at that. He's running on the GOP ticket, therefore keeping company with the most vicious scum in politics. J. Ventura likes him and wants to be a runningmate, but only if Paul goes independent.
I know Eliot Spitzer is down for the cause as well.
Spitzer would be great if he got back into nys politics. Spitzer against corporate lawyer Cuomo would be a great matchup.
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, just to name a couple. Problem is that the right wing that is in power or seeking power are deep entrenched in special interest groups. Until we the people can call for an Article V constitutional convention to get the money out of politics, we will undeniably fail. We have a start here and we believe this will gather enough support to make change and get the money of the corporations out of our politics.
http://www.articlevmeeting.info
Be sure to fill out the form and confirm that you want to receive updates and we will invite you to our conferences to explain our ground game and get this movement moving in a concise pattern that will work within the framework of our constitution.
Thanks! That's two! Sweet, one more than I thought...
How about, Barney Frank? Chris Dodd and Al Franken ?
Barney Frank & Dodd, passed some type of mortgage reform bill? That seemed to got the Republicans mad, so maybe they are on our side...
Al Franken just came into politics and grew up a comedian, so maybe he's on our side...
Hey speaking of constitutional amendment, you seen this? http://wolf-pac.com
Seems like yall visions are aligned.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/cenk-uygur-separate-money-and-politics_n_1023053.html
Come and support us. We have a conference room for assembling. Yes, Dodd, Frank and Franken are on our side as well. There are a few more and definitely.
http://articlevmeeting.info
We are organizing tangible action. We are with you and Cenk is right on the money.
Awesome, we need all the support, will, firepower we can get!
We are starting a web conferencing platform that can be very useful in forcing state legislatures to request a constitutional convention through article V of the us constitution.
Oh yeh? nice...
Hey when was the last time this was done? Is there not something we can try first, or is this our only/best recourse?
It is plain language in the constitution that the top does not want you to know.
if OWS could get a CC and propose reform of Corporate Governance it's definitely a lofty goal to aim for. :]
I see... I gotta look more into this. So general reasoning, being that it's easier to "move our state government" then to move the national one all at once?
And if we can get 30 states, we can get a constitutional convention, to vote on new Constitution laws?
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lol... yeh he's our champion... let's call him up, see what he's up to...