As an example, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives would have to collect 1,500 contributions from people in their state and raise a total of $50,000--that's an average of less than $34 per contribution. No single contribution could exceed $100.
Since states vary widely in population, the formula for the Senate candidates receiving public funding is more complicated, but it uses the same principle of gathering small donations from a specified number of people in the candidate's state.
The cost of Fair Elections would be borne by a small fee on large government contractors. The largest recipients of federal government contracts would pay a small percentage of the contract into the Fair Elections Fund.
The above Fair Elections Now Act information was obtained from the Web site at:
click here. Visit this Web site for a more complete summary of the Fair Elections Now Act.
Under the Fair Elections Now Act, federal candidates would run for office without relying on large contributions and big money bundlers, and would be freed from constant fund-raising, allowing them to focus on what people in their communities want. Participating candidates will be seeking support from their communities, not the Fat Cats in Washington D.C.
Similar public funding legislation has been initiated in a few states on limited bases with outstanding results. Voters have been overwhelmingly electing publicly financed candidates over privately financed candidates, bringing into government grassroots public office holders listening to their constituent Alley Cats rather than the few Fat Cats. It really works.
So here's the deal.
The Fat Cats own us through owning our government and our media. The great number of voting Alley Cats have been outgunned and outmaneuvered by the monied Fat Cats. It is time for us Alley Cats to stop running off in all directions--each following their own pet project, no matter how important. If we can come together for one year, work for one very specific issue (the Fair Elections Now Act), we can be successful in getting our government back and making it work for all Americans.
All you have to do is let your own so-called representatives in Congress know that either they actively support and vote into law the Fair Elections Now Act by the end of August, 2010, or you will do everything in your power to see they are not re-elected in November. That may be very difficult to do in some cases, but the threat must be real, and it must be carried out.
And really, what's to lose? If your so-called representatives in the House and Senate are unwilling to get out from under the Fat Cats' monied control, how much good will they ever do? Nothing good will happen through our government until the money disappears from the political scene. We, the Alley Cats, have asked nicely, pleaded unendingly, demanded vociferously, written until we got writer's cramp, marched until our feet were blistered, and got arrested so frequently we had cells reserved at our local jail. And still our government has turned its back on us.
John F. Kennedy said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Threatening our so-called representatives isn't the nicest way to operate, but it may well be the final peaceful action left to us. There are not many among us who want the inevitable violence that President Kennedy spoke of.
If we work together, in true solidarity, united in this one action for just one year; we can change the direction of this country, and maybe the world. Getting the money out of politics will give us the power to pursue all of our pet projects--and win. Just think of the many good causes that will be achievable through a congress filled with grassroots office holders listening to, and working for, all the Alley Cats of America.
ALLEY CATS OF AMERICA UNITE!
Since states vary widely in population, the formula for the Senate candidates receiving public funding is more complicated, but it uses the same principle of gathering small donations from a specified number of people in the candidate's state.
The cost of Fair Elections would be borne by a small fee on large government contractors. The largest recipients of federal government contracts would pay a small percentage of the contract into the Fair Elections Fund.
The above Fair Elections Now Act information was obtained from the Web site at:
click here. Visit this Web site for a more complete summary of the Fair Elections Now Act.
Similar public funding legislation has been initiated in a few states on limited bases with outstanding results. Voters have been overwhelmingly electing publicly financed candidates over privately financed candidates, bringing into government grassroots public office holders listening to their constituent Alley Cats rather than the few Fat Cats. It really works.
So here's the deal.
The Fat Cats own us through owning our government and our media. The great number of voting Alley Cats have been outgunned and outmaneuvered by the monied Fat Cats. It is time for us Alley Cats to stop running off in all directions--each following their own pet project, no matter how important. If we can come together for one year, work for one very specific issue (the Fair Elections Now Act), we can be successful in getting our government back and making it work for all Americans.
All you have to do is let your own so-called representatives in Congress know that either they actively support and vote into law the Fair Elections Now Act by the end of August, 2010, or you will do everything in your power to see they are not re-elected in November. That may be very difficult to do in some cases, but the threat must be real, and it must be carried out.
And really, what's to lose? If your so-called representatives in the House and Senate are unwilling to get out from under the Fat Cats' monied control, how much good will they ever do? Nothing good will happen through our government until the money disappears from the political scene. We, the Alley Cats, have asked nicely, pleaded unendingly, demanded vociferously, written until we got writer's cramp, marched until our feet were blistered, and got arrested so frequently we had cells reserved at our local jail. And still our government has turned its back on us.
John F. Kennedy said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Threatening our so-called representatives isn't the nicest way to operate, but it may well be the final peaceful action left to us. There are not many among us who want the inevitable violence that President Kennedy spoke of.
If we work together, in true solidarity, united in this one action for just one year; we can change the direction of this country, and maybe the world. Getting the money out of politics will give us the power to pursue all of our pet projects--and win. Just think of the many good causes that will be achievable through a congress filled with grassroots office holders listening to, and working for, all the Alley Cats of America.
ALLEY CATS OF AMERICA UNITE!
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