Election Reform & A Billionaire for President

Our campaign theme is "Action Against Apathy". It consists of these four main actions:

1. Run a self-financed independent for president;

2. Run 435 House and 33 Senate candidates to support the independent for president and generate grassroots get-out-the-vote activity;

3. Secure pledges from our candidates to enact our ten-point National Election Reform Platform.

4. Ask all independents, third parties and members of the Big Two to suspend their ideological differences long enough to establish fairness in elections and improve the process so that ordinary Americans will return to civic duty and run for office. 

We put out the call now for a full slate of independent congressional candidates to prepare to make the ballot in 2008. It is time to hold the Big Two accountable for continuing to raise the debt ceiling in order to earmark valuable brownie points for reelection.

The fourth point asking Independents, third-party loyalists, and swing voters to suspend their deepest ideological principles will only succeed if we secure pledges and hold those who get elected to honor them. We understand that supporting a true independent at the top of the ticket requires a stretch of faith. Most will not align squarely with our chosen nominee. But the trade-off will be worth it in exchange for Election Reform that will allow our candidates to compete.

As it stands today, our default candidate based on his ability to pay for an election without begging to the Big Box party financiers is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He brings credentials as a capable elected executive that Ross Perot did not. A draft committee (DraftMichael.com) has started recruiting Independent candidates for offices all over the U.S. in 2008. Building a grassroots network will turn out the crucial independent vote to finally elect an "Independent" chief executive to the White House in 2008. Supporting Bloomberg will be a challenge, but with a pledge to enact election reform measures in his first 100 days, he is the one we should support.

I appeal for the nearly 40% of the electorate who consider themselves independent to take up this challenge in order to fix the flawed election process. Commit to not wasting another vote on the Big Two candidates. Better yet run for office. Why should we as voters – and nonvoters – allow those who broke the system to continue in power? The Big Two simply write laws to legalize their misdeeds acting as though there is no problem.

Politics, government operations, and our electoral system can all be improved if we shake up the establishment, and introduce new ideas and invite new operators that are not bought and paid for by the highest bidders. No use trying to get money out of politics; our energy needs to be focused on getting people in. That is why we need a billionaire like Bloomberg to promote our platform.

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