Principles for Politics

Thursday: September 2nd, 2010

Get Involved

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)

Letters to Congress
Resolving our financial crisis sanely

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)

Lessons learned campaigning

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

If you don't speak up, who will?

If you are one of those people who often calls your congressman to provide input, thank you. You are helping us all by supporting democracy. If you have never contacted your congressman, or any other elected official, now is a great time to start. All of us who have allowed the special interest groups to hold a stronger voice because we didn't say anything have received what we deserved. We allowed others to speak for us. Are you tired of being stepped on? Are you ready to become involved? The more people speak up, the less influence the special interests will hold. Do you want to have government which represents the People or do you want it only if our government can somehow read your mind? Please, speak up.

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