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No More Gerrymandering
Term Limits for Congress
Campaign Finance Reform
Reigning in Special Interest Lobbyists
Restoring Honor to the Supreme Court

You think it’s tough to run as an Independent as I am doing!?! You think it’s tough to swear off PAC money and special interest endorsements, as I have!?! You think it’s tough to have people say that I’m not a legitimate candidate because I haven’t raised a lot of money!?! Yes it is! Yes to all of the above, although what raising large gobs of money has to do with being a good Congressman I have no idea.

Now think next level tough. Think how hard it is to amend our United States Constitution. But, unfortunately, that’s what “we the people” need to do to start down the long road to protecting and restoring our nation’s healthy democracy.

I’m not going to mislead you – It’s going to be tough to amend our Constitution. Of course, all those in power, on both sides of the aisle, want to stay in power. All the billionaires financing politicians want to keep things the way they are. All the special interest lobbyists think that their special interest is more important than anything else.

Our nation’s difficulties are going to take time to fix. The road will be long – I’m not going to tell you otherwise.

However, our democracy is not getting better if “we the people” stand aside. It’s not going to happen if “we the people” don’t take responsibility for the past, for the divisions in our country now, and start to work together on solutions for the future, for our children, their children and their children’s children.

Following are five Constitutional Amendments I believe will start us down the road to strengthening our democracy. But before I tell you what they are, I also want to make clear that as an Independent, I will work with others to revise and fine tune my proposals, as long as the end result is strengthening our country. Here are my proposals:

Constitutional Amendment to End Gerrymandering: Gerrymandering America, dividing it up between Democrats and Republicans is wrong. We need a Constitutional Amendment to end gerrymandering. In my first two weeks in office, I will propose to Congress a Constitutional Amendment requiring all Congressional districts in the country to be drawn up by a non-partisan computer program or by independent citizens commissions.

Constitutional Amendment for Congressional Term Limits: Politicians on both sides of the aisle will pretty much do anything to get elected and stay in office. And they stay and stay and stay, professional politicians, who are great at getting elected, but many of whom have no idea how to work hard and make a living like all of us. We need term limits for Senators and Congressman, just as we have them in California and for the President. In my first two weeks in office, I will propose to Congress a Constitutional Amendment to limit Senators to two terms (12 years) and Congressmen to 5 terms (10 years). That’s enough. After that, they should go back to their communities and get a real job.

Constitutional Amendment for Campaign Finance Reform: In the last (2024) U.S. federal election cycle, 100 billionaire families spent a record-breaking $2.6 billion on political campaigns. In other words, 1 of every 6 dollars spent by all the federal candidates, parties, and committees in 2024 was spent by 100 billionaire families. Are these billionaires and their super rich friends buying influence? Of course, they are. It’s eating away at our democracy.

The tragedy of all this campaign spending is that the campaign finance law we used to have before the Supreme Court ruined it was a bi-partisan law named for a relatively conservative Republican Senator from the Southwest (who ran for President as the Republican nominee) and his Senate compatriot, a relatively liberal Midwest Democrat.

We need a Constitutional Amendment to get the big money out of politics, to protect our democracy for all of us. In my first two weeks in office, I will propose to Congress a Constitutional Amendment to get the money out of politics, to reform our campaign finance laws for federal elections.

Constitutional Amendment to Keep Special Interest Groups at Bay: Special Interest groups – on all sides of the political spectrum – are eating away at America because they’ll do anything to advance their one special-interest issue, not caring about who we are as Americans, what we need for the greater good of America.

Special interest groups lobby, they isolate, they speak ill of others, they don’t compromise, they sow dissention, they believe they are righter than others around them. We need a Constitutional Amendment to reign in lobbyists. In my first two weeks in office, I will propose to Congress a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting professional lobbyists from appearing within one square mile of our nation’s capital building while Congress is in session.

Constitutional Amendment to Restore the Supreme Court to a Place of Honor: Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned into nothing more than a group of political hacks. 6 conservative Republican hacks. Three liberal Democratic hacks. They take money from benefactors. They make money on the side. There is no law that ensures they are ethical. Obviously, conservatives like what they’ve got now, but repeated religiously conservative 6-3 Supreme Court decisions are not good for America, any more than repeated religiously liberal 6-3 decisions would be. Intolerance on the left is just as bad as intolerance on the right.

We need a constitutional amendment to ensure that Supreme Court Justices are judges who interpret the law, not political hacks, to restore the Supreme Court to a place of honor in our minds and hearts. In my first two weeks in office, I will propose to Congress a Constitutional Amendment to limit Supreme Court Justices to one 15 year term, to prohibit Supreme Court Justices from earning outside income or taking gifts from non-family members, to impose strict ethical obligations, and to increase the size of the Supreme Court to 18 Justices with cases being heard by a randomly chosen nine Justices, and requiring at least six Justices to be Independents.
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