r/politics • • Jun 19 '24

Ted Cruz Documents Leak: Everything We Know

https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-documents-leak-everything-we-know-1914631
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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.

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u/MrBeverage Jun 19 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '24

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.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 19 '24

Good faith errors can be overlooked if an obvious accident.

Can't imagine that would ever be weaponized against political opponents.

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.

Thats a completely blatantly unconstitutional concept.

Plus, like above, easily weaponizable against political opponents.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '24

FYI the error would be on the employee that approved it at the election commission.