What we have had since term limits was the removal of more principled left leaning politicians replaced by rabid strident partisans who serve NGOs and Public Employee unions, and give cushy jobs to neerdowells and charlatans like the one who invested and lost mass amounts of our Public Employees Retirement funds, to be covered by us, the sucker tax payers.
What we have had since term limits was the removal of more principled left leaning politicians replaced by rabid strident partisans who serve NGOs and Public Employee unions, and give cushy jobs to neerdowells and charlatans like the one who invested and lost mass amounts of our Public Employees Retirement funds, to be covered by us, the sucker tax payers.
Maybe financial blind trusts for all elected officials and their spouses and review of windfalls of wealth befallen on any close relatives would be more effective?
Thank you for your response, I was not aware of how the term limits have turned out in California. I am older & have watched well intentioned people start out working for us, then after a term or two the emphasis changes & the grift begins. What if the election process changed & candidates got equal shares to spend from a taxpayer funded account? All private funds could be outlawed or added to the group fund. Politicians would have to run on what they are doing for their constituents. HavenтАЩt really thought this out but it levels the playing field and eliminates civil servants being bought and sold. It would cut extravagant spending and time wasted as the lawmakers stump for money. Put our ideas together we could keep our elected representatives honorable.
Government dollars going to support politiciansтАЩ political campaigns would only grow the cost to the taxpayers. Pac money makes it easy for special interests to bypass individual limits on campaign donations. ThatтАЩs a huge unfair advantages to incumbents and bought politicians.
Low hanging fruit for improving election results would be to reform voter laws that reduced and deterred fraud and that restored confidence in voters so more actually voted.
To restore faith and thus, participation in elections in California:
1) Require voter I.D. Everyone has an I.D. Even drug addicts who live on the streets, if theyтАЩre receiving monthly public assistance and EBT funds have I.D. ItтАЩs racist to argue that requiring voter I.D. is racists or discriminatory.
2) Eliminate Motor voter registration that happens when ever anyone applies for or renews their driverтАЩs license, automatically mailing out vote-by-mail ballots to everyone.
3) Eliminate vote-by-mail as the rule for everyone, use paper ballots and end wide spread adjudication of ballots.
Early voting starts a month ahead of election day.
4) Stop accepting ballots that are not postmarked or that are not received by election day. In California, counting of all mail in ballots goes on well into the following month of December, whereby candidates who won on election night end up declared losers to their opponents who win by a razor thin margin, a month later.
5) Follow the law and clean up the voter rolls so that voter ballots are not mailed out to dead people or people who have moved.
If these issues were reformed, we would restore faith in elections by greatly reducing abilities for fraud and this would increase voter participation.
What we have had since term limits was the removal of more principled left leaning politicians replaced by rabid strident partisans who serve NGOs and Public Employee unions, and give cushy jobs to neerdowells and charlatans like the one who invested and lost mass amounts of our Public Employees Retirement funds, to be covered by us, the sucker tax payers.
Maybe financial blind trusts for all elected officials and their spouses and review of windfalls of wealth befallen on any close relatives would be more effective?
Thank you for your response, I was not aware of how the term limits have turned out in California. I am older & have watched well intentioned people start out working for us, then after a term or two the emphasis changes & the grift begins. What if the election process changed & candidates got equal shares to spend from a taxpayer funded account? All private funds could be outlawed or added to the group fund. Politicians would have to run on what they are doing for their constituents. HavenтАЩt really thought this out but it levels the playing field and eliminates civil servants being bought and sold. It would cut extravagant spending and time wasted as the lawmakers stump for money. Put our ideas together we could keep our elected representatives honorable.
Government dollars going to support politiciansтАЩ political campaigns would only grow the cost to the taxpayers. Pac money makes it easy for special interests to bypass individual limits on campaign donations. ThatтАЩs a huge unfair advantages to incumbents and bought politicians.
Low hanging fruit for improving election results would be to reform voter laws that reduced and deterred fraud and that restored confidence in voters so more actually voted.
To restore faith and thus, participation in elections in California:
1) Require voter I.D. Everyone has an I.D. Even drug addicts who live on the streets, if theyтАЩre receiving monthly public assistance and EBT funds have I.D. ItтАЩs racist to argue that requiring voter I.D. is racists or discriminatory.
2) Eliminate Motor voter registration that happens when ever anyone applies for or renews their driverтАЩs license, automatically mailing out vote-by-mail ballots to everyone.
3) Eliminate vote-by-mail as the rule for everyone, use paper ballots and end wide spread adjudication of ballots.
Early voting starts a month ahead of election day.
4) Stop accepting ballots that are not postmarked or that are not received by election day. In California, counting of all mail in ballots goes on well into the following month of December, whereby candidates who won on election night end up declared losers to their opponents who win by a razor thin margin, a month later.
5) Follow the law and clean up the voter rolls so that voter ballots are not mailed out to dead people or people who have moved.
If these issues were reformed, we would restore faith in elections by greatly reducing abilities for fraud and this would increase voter participation.