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"No Fate"
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Concerned Citizen
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: In a van down by the river
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![]() Dude and his bill are about to be capped by his own party.
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Just hanging out.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Denver
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It's unconstitutional so neither party will support it. |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Since that won't happen because of the reasons you list as well as others, this is all kind of a moot point. |
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Just hanging out.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Denver
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Unfortunately, too many voters are partisan sheep and don't 'cull the herd.' |
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Bleeding Orange and Blue
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Denver
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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There should be very moderate caps with increasingly graduated amounts for each level of public office. In my perfect world, we would hire a non-partisan outside group to analyze the amount of money spent on elections pre- and post-Citizens United that makes a determination of how much each elected position can spend during a campaign. Just for sake of argument, for example (and I made these numbers ridiculously low on purpose): Representatives could spend up to $100,000 on their campaign, Senators $500,000, Presidents $1,000,000. Obviously they would have to scale it to districting and state populations. That would do a lot in leveling the playing field. Add in making the entire first week in November Election Week, enacting a law preventing exit polling to prevent news organizations and the like from calling races before the polls close to discourage people from voting, and I think things would look very different in Washington. Again, this is my perfect world solution. I realize it will never happen. |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 12,484
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![]() The amt of money spent by unions is nothing In comparison to what is spent by corporations.
Unions true influence derives from it's ability to get out the vote via as a voting block and more importantly it's ability to organize people to phone bank,knock on doors etc. volunteers for campaigns. Corporations don't have that kind of organizing ability, and as a result can't compete. It's why you saw such a strong push against unions after the 2008 elections and to this day. Last edited by peacepipe; 02-05-2014 at 04:16 PM.. |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Colorado
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I think it would benefit us all if unions, non-profits, for-profits, and individual spending on candidates and acting politicians was absolutely disclosed and/or capped. |
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A verbis ad verbera
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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IAFF generally leans republican as well. |
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Partisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Trumpville (like Potterville, but stupider)
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A verbis ad verbera
Join Date: Mar 2006
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![]() Who in there right mind would vote to limit how long your career can be? You will never get a majority. Dems and Repubs are in cahoots to keep power and until we realize that we will keep having choices like Hilliary Clinton/Insert cookie cutter conservative here type elections.
Does anyone really believe Hilliary has proven she should be running foreign policy and be commander in chief of the military? Cmon how can even liberals believe that? |
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A verbis ad verbera
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If all you got is bogus scandals then you got nothing. I'd rather see a Bernie sanders type run for pres. But Hillary trumps anything conservatives can put up. |
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A verbis ad verbera
Join Date: Mar 2006
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![]() Yeah but they can prove they can't run it. Hilliary does not get high marks for her stay as SOS.
her peace plan in Afghanistan fell apart. She made no headway in the Palestinian/Isreali conflict. She failed to keep embassies safe and Benghazi was the result. Our relationship with Russia at an all time low. The handling of Syria leaves a lot to be desired, it's a mess. Hell what did she do that screams to liberals she should be commander in friggin chief of the worlds biggest military? Quite frankly it's a scary thought. |
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Again if conspiracy theories are all the right has to attack her with, then you guys got nothing. |
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Awesomeness
Join Date: Sep 2013
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![]() Never happen, members of Congress are only in session 120 days a year. WTF would they want to put term limits on such a great gig?
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