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Summary: Finance Reform 6
Meaningful sanctions, including mandatory jail time for violations.
Full Text: Finance Reform 6
This proposal is to enforce these new limitations with meaningful
sanctions, including mandatory jail time. The right to vote is something
many of our ancestors died to create and protect. Perhaps vote fraud
and distortion of representative government should be a capital offense.
Without sanctions, all the previous limitations are merely like words
of politicos: pointless unintended hot air. So let us forget ethics
charges, this is merely a delay tactic and a loophole: merely political
grandstanding. Labeling these ethic violations, without real sanctions,
and causing another trial in criminal court is a supreme waste of
time and money.
Upon a grand jury finding of probable cause, have a summary dismissal from office,
without pay, or generous benefits, prompt forefit of ill-gotten funds, both pending
the outcome of a criminal trial, an appointment of an interim successor while
the defendant prepares for his or her defense. Upon conviction, mandatory jail
time of at least one year, forefit of pensions, fines that are at least the cost
of prosecution of the action, to be paid from personal funds. Is not anything
less the social ratification of these criminal acts. .Make these crimes, felonies,
for misuse of the public trust. And license all lobbyists, making felony convictions
the first disqualifier from said license. Further, that pardons from governors
and the President will not restore the ability to obtain such a license.
Won’t these rules help our politicians focus on the search for the general
weal, by freeing them from all the work of solicitations of CC,s and free them
from the onerous bookwork of keeping track These CC’s. It will help shield
them from the merit less claims made by some persons that they are soliciting
money for political favors. Is not each of these limitations on campaign finance
essential for meaningful campaign finance reform? Can there be any meaningful
search the general weal without each and every of the proposed finance reforms?
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