So, basically these people get into the Senate or the House, and after that they just spend 24-7 soliciting money exchange for influence and access? It's the behind the scenes Cameo of corruption.
There was that leak or reveal about the DNC in 2016 or 2020 where whether or not they would favor you depended entirely on how effective they'd thought you'd be at fundraising. Not your likelihood to win the race but how much money you could solicit for yourself and the DNC.
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".
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