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Common Sense II Political Reforms . . . is dedicated to promoting government "of, by and for" all of the people of the United States through the spread of common sense ideas for political reform. The Overdue Voter Revolution was my jumping off place in 1996 to attempt a personal evaluation of what was wrong with our two-party political system. Common Sense led me to the conclusion that absolute control of politics from the top-down by the DNC and RNC, a national political dictatorship, was the problem. I call that dictatorship the monopoly two-party system. My dream is to restore the promise of liberty and a democratic republic to our people through public awareness and widespread civic participation in non-partisan politics. We need to rewrite civil law to make "public service" the only possible benefit that can be had from holding public office. I invite you to pursue the dream of self-government promised in the Declaration of Independence and made sustainable by the provisions of the US Constitution. The only guarantee Freedom has is our political participation. (Top of Page)About Common Sense II Political Reforms: Political Tools ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Sense II The Overdue Voter Revolution A Non-Partisan Indictment of the DNC & RNC
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ The original purpose of these web pages in 1997 was to introduce needed common sense ideas into our political process. The " voter revolution pamphlet" contains a few good ideas that support the pledge below. We need to change the way we vote, because we need new political leaders free of party control. The pledge and good ideas alone, without creative political participation, cannot establish a new political reality that honors liberty and justice for all in a more democratic republic. The pledge and pamphlet make us aware of "something wrong here" in our politics. After recognition of a problem, solutions become possible. We need an intentional political mass movement:Non-Partisan Voter Pledge I, ________________Please Print________________ , the undersigned citizen of the United States of America, do pledge before Nature's God and my fellow citizens to legally register and vote in all local, state, and national elections for the rest of my life. I consider the bipartisan power struggle between Democrats (DNC) and Republicans (RNC) a threat to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Special interest money donations to the DNC & RNC two-party monopoly robs our citizens of political representation within legislative bodies and executive branches at all levels of government. I must withdraw wholehearted support from any bipartisan candidate of the monopoly Democratic and Republican Parties. I pledge to support qualified non-partisan independent and minor party candidates in order to elect government that represents people at the local, state and national levels. (Top of Page)My legal residence, Address ________________________________________________ , City _________________________ , State ______________________ , qualifies me to vote in precinct # _______________ , in __________________________ (City, Village, or Township) in the State of ____________________________ .My pledge signed this __________ day of ______________________ , _____________ , at (City) _____________________ , (State) _____________________ .
My Signature ________________________________________We need new political leaders free of party control. We need to circulate ballot access petitions to put more non-partisan independent and minor party candidates on every ballot. Read the pledge. Be active as a ballot access petition circulator and Election Day participant. Join the non-partisan political movement to establish a more democratic republic. Vote for candidates not owned by any political party or any other wealthy special interest. We still have a democratic republic, if we can keep it. Freedom is participation in power. (Top of Page) --------------- If you see merit in seeking a new political reality beyond the monopoly two-party system, ask your friends and family to visit these web pages so they can help create that new reality. If you want this conversation in our political life, read these pages and share your new insights. Email and fax worthwhile pages to others. Talk to the sea of non-partisan independents, 80%, that surround your daily life. To have more ballot choices we need to circulate ballot access petitions for non-partisan independents and minor parties. We can elect candidates we choose to put on the ballot. The non-partisan political movement must win elections to gain control over our undemocratic bipartisan two-party system. — RICH STEVENSON ComSenII@aol.com | www.oocities.org/dist1oh/pdf/IIpledge.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ is a name reverently borrowed from Thomas Paine, who published the original Common Sense pamphlet in January 1776. He came to the colonies less than two years before Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. His Common Sense pamphlet played a large part in convincing the colonists of a need to separate from the British Crown. He believed in the "natural rights" of man, and was a professed "atheist." He may have been influenced in his religious beliefs by a need to rebel against kings who claimed to "rule by divine right." I believe he is the father of our political way of life. He is one man who made the "bill of rights" palatable to the society of his time. I owe him my freedom of religion and of speech. He is my all-time favorite revolutionary hero. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were not "atheists." However, they were proud to be deists. As deists, they believed in "God," but rejected revelation and the supernatural doctrines of Christianity. We also owe them for favoring the separation of Church and State. Many of the colonists fled Europe to escape various tyrannical State Churches, religious persecution, and rule under the divine rights of Kings. A Republic ruled by civil law, not by the moralist tyranny of divine inspiration or authority, is our founders' greatest gift to humankind. The freedom of every citizen to determine his/her own philosophical, religious Truth is the greatest gift of our founding fathers to our citizens. The creativity allowed by our melting pot of intellectual freedom has produced abundant invention and great wealth for our republic.My writing is appropriate for the political challenges of our time. Richard L. Stevenson in 1997 (Top of Page) Email: ComSenII@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Letter to Ohio District One Voters and Others: I am a lifelong non-partisan independent voter and moderate political activist who was an active Reform Party leader. I was a delegate to the 1997, 1998, 1999, and "Real" 2000 Reform Party conventions. In 2000 at Long Beach, CA, John Hagelin/Nat Goldhaber were nominated as presidential candidates. I was also a delegate to the 2000 Natural Law Party/Reform Party Coalition Convention in Washington DC where John Hagelin/Nat Goldhaber were confirmed as coalition candidates for both parties. The national Reform Party campaign funds, $12.5 million dollars, were stolen in court through the misdeeds of Pat Buchanan and some top leaders in the Reform Party. Many Reform Party members lost their party, myself included. Pat Buchanan, a Republican double agent, radicalized and split my Ohio Reform Party. (Top of Page)I was on your ballot for Ohio District One Representative to the US Congress on November 7, 2000 as a Natural Law Party candidate. I did not get enough signatures to get on the ballot in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 as a non-partisan independent. The Republican incumbent and a Democrat were the only candidates on the OH One ballot in the last four Election Years. The bipartisan monopoly won all four years. I was on your ballot in 2004 and 2008 as a Write-In, but not in 2006. The 2006 write-in deadline was changed by OH HB3, effective late in the year, June 1, 2006. The bipartisan monopoly tricked non-partisan candidates and my campaign again. My 2008 campaign played a minor role in defeating the seven term Career Incumbent. All of my speeches and debate appearances talked of the need to defeat Career Incumbent public office holders. My 2010 campaign for Congress OH 1 was begun in December 2008 with updated web pages and campaign materials. Election day is November 09, 2010. I will campaign with the same non-partisan values and issues. When elected, I will be a populist statesman lobbying for the non-partisan individual interests of all citizens. If you are a registered Ohio voter you can help circulate my ballot access petition to get the necessary valid petition signatures. Become a certified ballot access petition circulator. I supported Ralph Nader in 2000, 2004 and 2008, as the only cohesive non-partisan independent voice in the Presidential elections. His message, vastly unheard, was one of unity of the non-partisan independent masses. Barack Obama may or may not make any noticeable change. I stand ready to applaud any success he may have. I am personally committed to vote for any qualified non-partisan independent or minor party candidate I find on my ballot. Presidential debates with Ralph Nader and other ballot qualified candidates in every Presidential debate in 2004 and 2008, would have given voters a realistic discussion of the real issues and a means to evaluate every ballot qualified candidate. With open debates we could have had a competitive election between more than two candidates. We could have inaugurated a person of great integrity, someone like Ralph Nader, to become our non-partisan independent President in 2009! Everyone could have voted for their first choice if Instant Runoff Voting
(IRV) had been used in the year 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections. With IRV there would be
no "spoiler" candidate. We all would have been able to cast preferential votes on every candidate in the election to select the new president. In the IRV system, all of your votes
(yes, that is plural) would have meaning. Unfortunately, we all had just one vote to cast for
President in the uncertain elections of 2000, 2004 and 2008. The two monopoly parties won. We
lost. I am very disappointed that King George II was "selected" to the Presidency, twice. I oppose monarchy and hereditary rule in our democratic republic. The Presidency was purchased like a dollar store trinket. Sadly, the same statement would apply if Gore or Kerry had become President. A partisan Supreme Court broke the line of Presidential succession in 2000 for the first time in US history. The system remains broken at this point in our history. The re-selection of Bush was beyond rational contemplation. It seems to me that Bush would not have been "selected" President in 2000 if his brother had not been Governor of Florida. The coincidence is too great to avoid intense historical inquiry. More bipartisan election tampering took place in 2004, with Ohio becoming 2004's Florida. The election seemed to be fixed by the Republican Secretary of State, who was also George Bush's Campaign Manager. That was a huge conflict of interest that should have precluded him from involvement in the Bush campaign. Fixing elections threatens to become an increasingly blatant bipartisan habit. Polarization grows. Voters divided by support of extreme values, helped to select Bush, in a very hate-based values war. Each half of the electorate has been taught to disrespect the deeply held values of the other half. The negatives muddy a steep slope slipping slowly toward eventual intolerance, confrontation, and violence. Free speech and tolerance are being challenged to a duel. Bush and the religious right are leading our republic slowly toward a religious Civil War. We are looking more and more like Northern Ireland and warring ethnic factions in divided Yugoslavia. We must get back to reason and law to stabilize our political process. (Top of Page) To regain representation for the average citizen we must avoid election of Democrats or Republicans. Both parties are destructively bipartisan, as seen in the legal battle over the Presidency in Florida and Ohio. Both parties are a part of the over 200-year-old entrenched monopoly two-party system. Some would correctly say "dictatorship." Both parties rob our citizens of access and representation within legislative bodies and executive branches of government throughout the United States. Non-partisan independents like you and me need to gain democratic control of our republic to create political change. We must do more than mere voting. We must elect non-partisan candidates to public office. A bout 85% of registered voters are non-partisan independents — as in District One. Jesse Ventura, Governor of Minnesota, won his office as mayor (75% of the vote) and his office as governor by attracting more registered and unregistered voters to the polls. Jesse won the Governor's election with 37% of the vote. The 65% voter turnout was 20% higher than any other election in the country in 1998. Forty-one percent (41%) of his votes were from new voters, registered on Election Day. Non-partisan independents are at least 74% of 115,000,000 registered voters nationwide. In addition, another 100,000,000 age eligible non-partisan independents are not registered to vote. Altogether, there are roughly 175,000,000 (77%) potential non-partisan independent voters for non-partisan independent and minor party candidates compared to roughly 40,000,000 potential bipartisan "majority party" likely voters.Non-partisan independent candidates are likely to win any election with a 65% or more voter turnout. Most elections have a turnout of far below 50% of registered voters (115,000,000) and 0% of eligible unregistered voters (100,000,000). Participation of 65% can elect new leaders 100% of the time. Non-partisan voters can easily put any candidate they choose into every public office in our republic. One problem is education to let non-partisan independents know that their votes already determine the winner in every election. All elections. Together, we have a reason to become politically active. We can elect our non-partisan candidates to public office. A second problem is highly restrictive ballot access laws that exist at some level in all fifty states. To make the election of non-partisan leaders easier, we can increase voter turnout and voter registration. We can all learn to circulate ballot access petitions, to become active citizens. Moreover, we can find reasonably good non-partisan candidates for the numerous public offices we want to win. We can circulate ballot access petitions to put our candidates onto the ballot. The American people must be educated to discover the extreme lack of popular support for the Democratic and Republican parties. Both parties are well financed by special interests and they make a lot of noise on TV and Radio. In the quiet of the voting booth their power is zero. Each citizen has the power of one vote. We must all learn to use the power of our single vote to gain representation in OH District One and in districts all over our republic. Your single vote is the key to the power you share with other citizens. T here are no major parties in our republic, only two dominant minor parties. Both dominant parties are bullies with bragging rights. Each voter can fire the bullies. Each voter can have real friends in high places. Those friends are non-partisan independent or minor party candidates from our communities. Vote for those people-friendly candidates to have a voice in your governments — local, state and national. Be a polling place participant on Election Days.Winning 10% to 40% of all public offices all over our republic by qualified non-partisan independent and minor party candidates can be done. To be free of the destructive bipartisan power struggle between the DNC & RNC and to connect government back to our people, it must be done. W e can take our political process back from special interests that have purchased power over our governments from the DNC and the RNC, the Democrats and Republicans. Vote for self term-limited, non-career non-partisan candidates for public office.Solutions to many of our persistent problems can be accomplished by scaling down big money corruption in our political process. To move toward representative government we must eliminate soft money and PAC money from all political campaigns. We can have a more democratic republic. (Top of Page) Non-Partisan Clean Government Strategy: We can elect non-partisan independents, 40 or 50 in the US House and 10 in the US Senate, to end bipartisan majority control of Congress. Bipartisan warfare over majority control of the US House and the US Senate will end immediately. With no legislative majority, incumbent Democrats and Republicans will have to work with moderate non-partisan independents to legislate to solve our long term national problems in the light of day. Real solutions have been blocked for decades by the corrupt special interest influence of money on all Congressional legislation. Favors for money from special interest lobbyists are a prominent feature of the Career Incumbent Washington Culture that corrupts our bipartisan two-party system. Incumbent crimes have been well hidden from public view. With your participation, our non-partisan independent SUPER MAJORITY can show the world. We can elect public servants we choose who will legislate to represent a majority of our people.To guarantee fragile freedom and a more democratic republic we must elect new people to replace bipartisan incumbents, as often as possible, and with as many newly elected non-partisan citizens as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When elected, Rich will work night and day for a more democratic republic. Vote for "RICH." You win. Rich will be on your ballot for OH District One Representative to the US Congress on November 09, 2010. You can have your non-partisan independent voice heard in the US Congress. (Top of Page) |
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You have an independent choice and a good reason to vote. I pledge to be self term-limited to two terms — four years. I will vote for your interests, our common good. RICH STEVENSON 2010 Candidate for District One Congress Paid for by Citizens for Stevenson |
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