Principles for Politics

Monday: May 12th, 2008

Candidate Links



Goals
Markedly reduce special interests
      Markedly reduce fundraising
      Involve constituents (YOU) more
Focus first on principles (only you can stop sound bites)
Principles drive policies (some consistency please)

You can help (tell a friend)
6 things you might do
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
If not you, who? If not now, when?

Other political reform or informational sites
Links (please suggest your own)

Candidates' web sites
      Candidate links (link list, criteria, add a link)
      Candidate web sites (2 listed)

Principles
Active catalogue of principles
      you can participate in our wiki starting with Constitutional principles

Timeline
Events important to this site

The logo
Principles are solid
Politics is fuzzy

Candidate Criteria

To be listed on this site, we would like you to agree to the following:

  • Decline to request or accept direct financial contributions (cash, checks, debit cards, etc.)

  • Focus first on principles and maintain this focus throughout your campaign

  • Define policies or position statements which are consistent with and based upon your stated principles

  • Clarify your view of the appropriate roles (and regional level) of goverment.

  • Communicate in an ongoing way with your supporters and, if elected, continue this communication with your constituents.

Candidate Sites (meeting the most criteria so far)

While our goals are clear, we are aware change is not immediate. Below we recognize the candidates who, to our knowledge, have come closest to our ideal criteria.

drozeran.com/2008

www.sendmurphytocongress.com/

Tools

The sites listed below offer products or services that may be useful to a candidate's campaign
http://www.citizenspeak.org/
http://civicspacelabs.org/home/download

Add a Candidate Site

We want to list all candidates who agree with these terms. If you know of one, please enter that candidate's web site address below. Your e-mail address is optional. However, without it we will not be able to contact you to clarify any concerns we may have about the web site. This might result in our being unable to list the site or force us to remove the site from our link list.


              For a site like http://www.p4p.org/news/today/index.html
          (www. is optional)         domain (e.g. p4p.org)     file name (e.g. news/today/index.html)
Candidate web address: http:///
Contact e-mail address: (optional)

Everyone has a voice, when we all speak up.
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