Posted on 06/27/2014 5:56:18 AM PDT by don-o
How about the following re campaign funding:
Federal
Senate: All funds must come from from within the state in which the candidate is running. Individual contributors must be state residents and business contributors must be incorporated in the state.
House of Representatives: All funds must come from within the district that the candidate will represent. Individual contributors must be residents of the district and business contributors must be incorporated in the district.
State elections based upon the same principles of funding being limited to area which the candidate will actually represent.
It is not going anywhere
Majority of House needs to ratify it
Majority of Senate needs to ratify it
Same Amendment no changes identical
Then it goes to the State Legislators and 38 States must ratify it.
Anyone seeing our dysfunctional Country getting this accomplished?
I agree that he is positioned as the ying to the Koch Brothers yang, but I think the whole Koch brothers brouhaha was intentionally created as a counter balance to the exposure of Soros' political machinations. He was trying to mask his political contributions from public scrutiny through foundations, but when he was exposed they needed a rightwing boogie monster to point at.
And generally, there's more evidence of evil doing by Soros, like intentionally manipulating currency markets to enrich himself at the expense of entire nations or his conviction for insider trading.
But he has no more megalomaniacal magic than the Koch brothers, he's just a world-class a-hole.
Not just a majority in the Senate, a 2/3rds majority. This is just red meat for the Dem base.
Good point.
No other entity can give money. Not unions, not pacs, not corporations, not trusts, not foundations, etc.
From today’s Patriot Post:
“[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788
In other words the IRS will redistribute like with Obamacare.
This will not apply to unions. I did PAC reports for a labor union in CA. According to the law, the donations are not made by the union itself, but the thousands of members in the union. If a member didn’t want to donate to political activities, they could be “fair share” payers, but they were harassed by others.
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