Subject:  Campaign Finance Reform (Anon)..
Date:     Mon, 1 May 2000 113757 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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........From one of our silent "listeners".....  We have many.
Some of them are "in the government."

Cheerio

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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                            Missed opportunity...
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                                  McCain !!

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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 10:26:30 -0700
From: xxxxxxxxxx
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Campaign Finance Reform


Roy,

	Should you find any interest in posting this suggestion, please do so
anonymously.


	Since the evolution of the Corporate Society, during the 20th (and now
21st) century the American citizen has increasingly become an observer
of or bystander to the political process.  What once was considered a
sacred right, enfranchisement, has been all but abandoned by the
disheartened and cynical populace.
	We have come to this sorry state primary because of the
disproportionate influence now exercised by corporate doners whose funds
increasingly dominate the electoral process.
	Campaign finance reform, seemingly the remedy needed to restore  the
process to its intended form, has been debated incessantly.  But little
is accomplished with the proposed "tweaks" to the perverse system.  This
is because those who would propose remedies are typically part of the
indentured political elite.
	A simple, perhaps too simple, solution which could much reduce the
corrupting influences is to mandate by legislation or constitutional
amendment as follows:

	*****	Only natural persons eligible to vote may provide contributions
to candidates for public office or those holding public office and any
such contibutions may derive solely from the natural persons personal
assets or wealth.*****


	By providing for this limitation to "natural persons" we put an end to
the corporate funding except through individuals affiliated with a
corporation and even then subject to the limitations now in place.  And,
at the same time we reduce the prospect of foreign influence on our
electoral process.

	This doesn't mean to say that everyone will be able to
participate/contribute equally.  But it does put the process back in the
hands of living, breathing people.

	I'm confident that there are flaws in this naive proposal.  For one
example, what's to stop corporations from funneling money to candidates
through employees or directors?  Would not accounting practices identify
such activities?

	Let's hear what the Guru's group thinks.



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