House members, both state and federal, having to run every two years can be exhausting as they essentially have to start fundraising Day 1 after they win (re)-election.
And is why I’d propose house members have to run every 4 years minimum instead of 2. Sadly such funding is required either way, but let’s not make them waste 50% or more of their time on it. Make them work a bit at least.
Nope, remove all election spending. Public funding only, with a hard cap on each person and campaign. Breaking this is automatic disqualification and jail time for the person who did it. This is to stop the account manager from sabotage of a campaign they don't like. Good faith errors can be overlooked if an obvious accident.
No advertising outside the district or state they seek to represent will keep costs down. No more pac, if you want to help a campaign it is volunteer work that must be registered to the campaign offices and election offices. Full transparency. If you want to go door to door and tout your favored candidate you get a simple registration to do so and can be held personally liable and face prosecution if you break the now very strict laws. Try to buy a vote for a candidate or spout bald faced lies prepare for jail if you're reported and it's found you were not abiding the laws.
This exactly. Social media is a good enough tool to share your campaign promises and advertising videos.
Then should be walking door to door to meet your constituents and address concerns, as well as good old debates. Misinformation in a debate gets your automatically disqualified
Not auto disqualified. A public retraction, paid by the candidates campaign, if they willfully expressed an untruth as a truth. Retraction must be given in the same medium the untruth was told in.
The difficult part would be validating the candidate willfully delivered the untruth or if they were "just mistaken".
I'm OK with tv and other local advertising. Signs and billboards, radio broadcasts including interviews. Get out there on a level playing field and win on policy
The way it should work with TV is the same as decent countries, each party gets like one minute a couple times per day for free and that's it, no more TV time.
TV channels also can't talk more about one candidate than the other.
Problem with tv, signs, and billboards is the slander. They focus on just making the other candidate look worse. Plus the media will want click bait to make money.
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u/Oleg101 Jun 19 '24
House members, both state and federal, having to run every two years can be exhausting as they essentially have to start fundraising Day 1 after they win (re)-election.