Lobby For Your VOICE
What a great acronym–VOICE–Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections. (Actually it was my idea.)
You can help Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI) lobby to get our VOICE back from the monied special interests who now own our elections. They are having a lobby day next Monday, January 29 from 11 am to 3 pm. Contact them for more details at iowacci@iowacci.org and visit their website at http://www.voterownediowa.org/
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Perhaps if government did not dole out so much money, people would not spend a lot of money influencing elections.
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Paris Hilton, the Waltons, the Wrigleys and the Gallos will still lobby for lower estate taxes. Corporations will still lobby to curtail product lawsuits and trial lawyers will still lobby to keep product lawsuits and malpractice lawsuits. Pealtors and builders will still lobby to end wetlands protection. Oir companies will still lobby for off shore drilling rights and coal burners will still lobby for dirty air. Walt Disney will still lobby to keep its copyrights renewing forever. None of this involves government spending, but when this lobbying takes the form of campaign contributions, it’s the elections that get polluted and even become privately owned, so to speak.