Disqualification of Congress - Part One
FOUR FACTS OF ELECTORAL CORRUPTION

Fact 1 – Democratic and Republican party committee chairmen require congressmen and women to solicit campaign donations two to four hours every day, of every year they serve in Congress.

Fact 2 – Senators and House leaders are required to collect $10,000 everyday they hold office. They individually receive more than $3,600,000.00 a year from corporate and special interest campaign donors. That’s 23 times their yearly public salary of $165,000.00. Whose interest will they represent?

Fact 3 – Corporate and special interests employ 63 lobbyists for every congressperson in Washington D.C. These lobbyists influence public legislation toward their employers’ benefit.

Fact 4 – The wealthiest one-tenth of 1%, that is one out of every 1,000 Americans, finance 80% of federal election campaigns. That leaves 99.9% (999 out of every 1,000 Americans) financing only 20% of our federal election campaigns.

The corporations and special interests that pay for federal elections receive those tax revenues our society intended for our mutual social needs. Those social needs include: teachers’ salaries, low cost college education, health clinics, affordable housing, police, and fire services.


CONGRESS HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHEN REGULATING CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW - PART ONE B
Congressmen and women have become toadies to corporate power and bagmen for their Democratic and Republican party committee leaders.

The Democratic and Republican political parties, and all members of Congress, have a conflict of interest
when regulating federal elections campaign financing.

“Conflict of Interest” means: Any financial or other interest, which conflicts with the duty of loyalty congressional representatives owe their constituents, because it could significantly impair their objectivity, or create an unfair political advantage, for any individual, organization, or corporation.




The Electoral Corruption of Congress

PART ONE C
The Electoral Corruption of Congress + The Conflict Of Interest of Congress = The Disqualification of Congress and the Democratic and Republican parties from all processes in the legislation of Campaign Finance Law.

DIRECTLY LEGISLATING FEDERAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW
The single most important element that defines a democracy is its citizens’ power to legislate. Legislative power is the heart of the state and rests in the sovereign authority of its citizenry. Typically, in our Republic, citizens use their legislative power through their elected representatives. But in approximately one half of our states, and in thousands of cities and counties across our country, legislation emanates directly from our citizenry.

The Democratic and Republican political parties and all members of Congress, because of their electoral corruption and their conflict of interest in regulating federal elections campaign financing, must be disqualified from all processes in the legislation of federal elections campaign finance law.

Therefore, our citizenry have the sovereign right, to directly legislate federal elections campaign finance law.



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