August 2006 Archives

What will our New US Constitution Say?

Try asking the American people if either the Republican or Democratic political party is the answer to America's woes and future needs. They will answer in majority with a clear and stoutly resonated "NO"!

Polls show confidence in the Republican and Democratic Parties is AWL, Absent With Leave, by the actions of the parties. But the public has only two options, vote out incumbents regardless of which party, or overthrow the government, and convene a new Continental Congress and draft a new Consitution which starts with the old one, but, removes money and parties from their roles as primary movers of politicians.

Given this choice, and paths of least resistance, obviously, the people are going to choose to throw out incumbents.

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What Can Politicians Tell You?

Congress men and women are all back home with their constituents trying to figure out what they can tell you to get your vote. So, what is it you want to hear in order to give them your vote? Or, given swelling anti-incumbent sentiment, is it too late for that?

For many, but, far too few, it is what politicians did, said, and voted on since the last election, that will determine whether they vote for, or against, their incumbent senators and representatives. For others, short cuts for not having paid attention will have to do. For example, many voters will ask themselves, am I better off today than I was two years ago?

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Anti-incumbency article - Independent Voter

I discovered a very finely reasoned article on the anti-incumbency movement which references VOID at the Independent Voter Project. James Leroy Wilson, the author, really did a fine job of making the case. Check it out.

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Call for VOID writers

I have been blogging for a couple years now. I am currently writing for WatchBlog.com, VOID, BlogCritics, Poliwatch, and just received an invitation to discuss writing for Zimbio.com. Growing demands on my time mean VOID needs at least two additional writers interested in gaining professional exposure for their writing on the VOID web site. This is a volunteer position, but, you will have an editor working with you and assisting your growth in the tools and techniques for effective, high quality writing for e-media. See below for requirements.

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Conservatives To Boot Incumbents

Assoc. Press' M.L. Johnson wrote an article entitled, Conservative Group Sets Sights on Chafee. In it, Johnson writes:

Fresh off their first victory over a Republican incumbent, GOP conservatives seeking party purity on taxes and spending are focused on ousting moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

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David Remer

I'd like to take a moment to express my respect, admiration, and high regard for David Remer, VOID's Founder and President.

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Being an Educated Voter

You often hear about the "educated voter." Who is that? What does it to take to quailfy?

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7-9-2006 Minutes

VOID Board of Directors - Meeting Minutes
Via Internet 3-way conferencing
Sunday, July 9, 2006 7:30PM - 9:00PM

ATTENDEES:
David R. Remer, President
Daniel Summars, Treasurer
Stephanie Crist, Secretary

PURPOSE: To review progress of current projects and to determine the prices to be charged for the newly acquired VOID window stickers.

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Incumbents Lieberman, McKinney lose.

Ned Lamont has won the Democratic primary election to run as the party's Senate candidate on November's ballot. With 97% of the vote counted, Lamont held a lead by less than 3.5%. My mild disappointment is not that Lamont won, but the small margin. If Connecticut were in the throes of an anti-incumbent fever, Lamont would have won over Sen. Joseph Lieberman by a landslide. On the flip side, another incumbent lost tonight, Rep. Cynthia McKinney lost her bid.

I will go on record now and say, November's race between Lamont as Democrat, and Lieberman as Democratic Independent, will go one of two ways. Either, Lamont will succeed in painting Lieberman as a divider of Connecticut and the Democratic Party, and a man who doesn't like playing by the party's rules. Or, Lieberman will succeed with a lot of help from Independent and Republican voters who see more conservative prospects from Sen. Joe than their own Republican candidate (who has little chance in this predominantly Democratic state). You can hold me to this call.

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More signs of Anti-Incumbent Wave

Over at Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, David Wasserman and Larry J. Sabato
of the U.Va. Center for Politics, write: "To be certain, the 2006 midterm election cycle promises to feature the most strongly anti-incumbent mood since 1994, a fact Republicans might argue cuts both ways, though the Crystal Ball maintains it will disproportionately debilitate the ruling party."

The evidence I am seeing in the polls confirms this view. However, in the Sabato article entitled: The 2006 Midterms: Guilt by Association?, Wasserman and Sabato indicate victory for Democrat majority in one or both houses of Congress may depend on their ability to link their GOP opponents to Bush policy and doctrine. While that may or may not be true, I believe this view masks an underlying extreme dissastisfaction on the part of voters toward Congress regardless of party. Further, it masks the poll results showing a dramatic numeric rise in self-identified independent voters, and an exodus of voters from both the Republican and Democratic parties.

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Will they get your vote?

Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press wrote:

Both Democrats and Republicans insist they emerged as winners from last week's failed GOP effort to cut taxes on multimillion dollar estates and raise the minimum wage.

But the fact is, tax cut legislation isn't due to expire, and therefore, does not require renewal, until 2010. So, why was it introduced into this minimum wage bill? To kill the bill. Pure and simple. The minimum wage is the lowest in purchasing power in 50 years. "5 million hotel maids, dishwashers, fast food and janitorial workers and other minimum wage earners stuck at $5.15 an hour."

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Letter to Editor 1

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Please consider the following for printing in your letters to the editor column. Thank you. I love your publication.

Our government, though a Republic, is also a democracy. And one of the fundamental principles of a democracy is that the voters have the right and obligation to vote out incumbents when government is not functioning as voters expect it should.

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Byron Diehl supports the VOID concept

Byron has a fine article entitled, Political Changes are Possible this Year. He does an excellent job of talking up the fact that it will only take a small number of us to make a world of difference in November's elections. I will quote his first paragraph, but, I recommend reading his short essay.

The reason it is possible is that just 5 - 10% of us voting in concert could swing almost every Congressional seat up for grabs in the November election. Most races are decided by less than 5% of the total vote; therefore a few percent of us basing our votes on a single criterion could control the outcome of most congressional contests.

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