Tag Archives: oil industry subsidies

Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part V

Posted on April 7, 2016 by johnrachel

It’s all about people power. Not PACs and SuperPACS. Not big piles of money. Change still comes down to the choice each of us personally makes in the voting booth. Power resides in our aligning our individual choices, so that collectively — as in tens of millions of us united in an unstoppable juggernaut of people power — we get done what needs to get done. We must elect representatives who represent us. We will guarantee they will represent us by making candidates sign legally-binding contracts. Or we don’t vote for them. Continue reading →

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We’ll just have to agree to agree.

Posted on April 13, 2015 by johnrachel

Agree to disagree? I have a better idea! How about if we agree to agree? Go from there. Continue reading →

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Pledge: Oil Industry Subsidies

Posted on May 8, 2012 by johnrachel

The voting public nationally has stated its position on oil industry subsidies loud and clear. It wants them done away with immediately! So let’s go after the turncoat toadies who have been voting their pocketbooks and have opposed ending this horrific and wasteful giveaway of our tax dollars to corporations that already are awash in profits. Continue reading →

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The October Surprise

Posted on May 7, 2012 by johnrachel

They say timing is everything. It may not be everything but it certainly is critical. When is the best time to present the candidate pledges? When should this confrontation take place? I am recommending the first week of October, one month before the election. The October Surprise. Everybody loves surprises! Continue reading →

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How Pledges Can Work

Posted on May 1, 2012 by johnrachel

How will candidate pledges for progressive positions on key issues be effective? How will this work? Intimidation! We will either make the toadying hypocrites sign the pledges out of fear that they will lose the election, or we will run them out of office by instigating voter outrage for voting against the laws the vast majority of Americans want. Continue reading →

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Pledges: Candidate Contracts

Posted on April 28, 2012 by johnrachel

The candidate pledge, now deployed to such grossly destructive ends, can be used to an opposite effect, that is, as a means of restoring some sanity to what comes out of the U. S. Senate and Congress. Candidate pledges can result in legislation on a host of crucial issues and pull the country out of the death spiral we currently find it in. I’m referring to familiar measures supported by large majorities that reflect the stated values and express wishes of the American people. Continue reading →

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