What if voters said: "You know, you talk a good story. You make all sorts of wonderful promises. But for some reason when you get to Washington DC, you apparently come down with some acute form of amnesia. SO ... while we sometimes like what you say, sometimes are confused by what you don't say, often scratch our heads wondering why you don't seem to get the messages we're sending you loud and clear, and are incredibly disturbed that things we want done never seem to get done, we've decided that from now on we're taking the guesswork out of all of this. We're putting in writing what we want done. It'll take the form of a friendly little contract between you, our elected official, and us, the ones who vote you into your cushy job. This contract will spell it all out in black-and-white. If you sign it, great! You've got our votes. If you don't, well ... not so great for you. Because we'll find someone else who will sign it and vote for that candidate."
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the candidate contracts work. It's that simple.
Toward the end of the previous article in this series, this appeared ...
If your immediate reaction is ... "Why, my congressman will never sign something like that!" ... all I can do is jump for joy! It means we're getting somewhere!
What am I saying?
Simple. The candidate contract makes everything clear. Either candidates are serious about doing their jobs, either candidates are serious about representing those who voted them into their powerful positions in Washington DC, either candidates are truly listening to constituents and promoting the things those constituents want ... or they're not.
If your current "congressman will never sign something like that", it means one thing.
It means that despite all their campaign promises, all their stated good intentions, despite the happy-face rhetoric on their website and campaign literature, this person is not going to represent you or take into account what you want done. That's exactly what it means.
And I jump for joy ... and you should too. Because NOW WE KNOW!
We know exactly where things stand ... and we know exactly what to do.
We don't want this person in office. We know what will happen. This charm-peddler with the teeth-whitened grin will head off to the Washington DC bubble, forget all about us -- the people who elected him -- and do the bidding of deep-pocketed campaign donors, rich and powerful corporate plutocrats, and the swarms of guns-for-hire lobbyists who are like locusts in our nation's capital.
Good riddance to these sweet-talking shills!
As the expression goes: "Knowledge is power."
Exactly! And the knowledge and understanding of the true loyalties and commitments of the candidates running for office is our power!
It is the power for us to say: No more lies. No more empty promises. No more excuses. No more equivocation and double talk.
No contract = no vote.
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