Freedom-Fighters Forum

William J. Dell – 26 January 2011
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Dear Readers,

This is an ACTION ALERT ! Have you ever asked, “But what can I do?” If you have, we have a suggestion for you.

Yesterday Freedom-Fighters Forum joined with our friends at CSIA Report to launch a grassroots effort to change campaign financing. We asked those on our Email lists to copy and send to the Congress the following proposed Bill. Please read it carefully. If you would like to join in this effort send me an Email at FF-Forum@msn.com and I will Email you back a file of the Bill, according to Congressional format, and a proposed cover letter. Please include your state of residence as we are tracking from now many states the Bill is going to Congress. We would hope to coordinate the mailings, via “snail mail,” so that they reach Congress between February 1 – 15, 2011. Thank you.

A BILL

To enact a law reforming Campaign Financing to conform to Constitutional Limits.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2011″ or “The Voters Empowerment Act.”

SECTION 2. BACKGROUND

(a) WHEREAS Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution states: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States; [Emphasis added.]

(b) WHEREAS Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution as amended by Amendment XVII states: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote; [Emphasis added.]

( c) WHEREAS Amendment XV of the Constitution states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; [Emphasis added.]

(d) WHEREAS Amendment XIX of the Constitution states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex; [Emphasis added.]

(e) WHEREAS Amendment XXIV of the Constitution states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax; [Emphasis added.]

(f) WHEREAS Amendment XXVI of the Constitution states: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age; [Emphasis added.]

(g) WHEREAS Corporations, for profit or not for profit; Trade Unions; Special Interest Groups; Lobbies; foreign investors, or any other group or organization of whatever ilk, hereafter referred to as entities:

(i) are NOT citizens and therefore have no right to vote in any election whatsoever;

(ii) only make campaign contributions to gain unwarranted access to and influence over the duly elected SERVANTS of We the People, and

(iii) that such access and influence is oft times contrary to the wishes of We the People, their constituents, who elected them; and,

(h) WHEREAS permitting such entities of whatever ilk, to dabble in politics and, in particular, to support and/or contribute to campaigns of Representatives, Senators and the Presidency of the United States forces some portion of their employees and/or members to contribute to the campaign(s) of candidates they do NOT wish to support:

SECTION 3. Be it therefore enacted by The Congress: The “Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2011.’’

(a) THAT only individual citizens, with the right to vote, shall be permitted to contribute to political campaigns. That any such contribution(s) by an individual citizen, for any one campaign cycle, shall be limited and not exceed $2500. That said election and campaign cycle for Representatives shall be two (2) years; for Senators shall be six (6) years; and, for President shall be four (4) years. That any contribution(s) received during a campaign cycle by any candidate shall only be legal and lawful when made by an individual citizen contributor to the campaign of said candidate for which they, the contributor, are eligible to vote for and/or elect.

(b) THAT entities, as defined above, shall be permanently and perpetually barred from making any contributions or providing any support whatsoever, real or in kind, financial or otherwise, in any form whatsoever; such as, but not limited to; buying of ads, technology services, transportation or per diem, to inure or benefit the campaign of anyone running for election to public office. Such entities have no Constitutional right to vote and their financial interference in the electoral process infringes on the right of the People to elect the candidate(s) of their choice. It is understood that the employees and/or members of these entities are agents unto themselves and are not amenable to the control of these entities; their actions which are not under the control of these entities when engaged in by themselves independently shall not be deemed to be activities of these entities.

( c) THAT national and/or state political committees and/or organizations shall be permanently and perpetually barred from using funds received from within one State or Territory to influence the outcome of the election of any Representative or Senator in any other State or Territory. This financial interference, the redistribution of campaign funds, real or in kind, in the electoral process has the power to skew the results of the election and therefore infringes on the right of the People of that State or Territory to elect the candidate(s) of their choice.

SECTION 4. INTENT

(a) The effect and intent of this Act, when signed into Law, is to require those elected to public office to be beholden to and to represent only their constituents who elected them and NOT entities, including political parties, who cast NO ballot to elect them to their public office as a SERVANT of We the People, who are the constituents whom they are elected to represent.

(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the ability of any private citizen, as a private citizen, to exercise their First Amendment rights of speech and assembly, to campaign for any candidate for public office, within or without their district or State or Territory. Said private citizen shall be barred however from receiving from the campaign, any person supporting the campaign, or any entity any fee for appearance or speaking and shall do so at their own personal expense, including their transportation and per diem costs; such as, lodging, meals, entertainment and incidentals.

( c) The only limitation intended, by this Act, is the prohibition of making any contributions or providing any support whatsoever, real or in kind, by external persons or entities, including political parties, which are generally (1) intended to garner access and undue influence on the duly elected representatives of We the People, (2) to skew the outcome of our elections for the benefit of the aforementioned external persons or entities, including political parties, and their purposes. Both of these actions contravene, circumvent and compromise the intent of the Constitution, and in many cases, the will of We the People who elected, thereby hiring, them as our SERVANT and representative.

(d) Delegates to State and National Conventions, for the purposes of nominating party candidates to run for executive office, may be exempted from the personal expense limitations of SECTION 4 (b). Such expense may be born by their respective party at the party’s own discretion and according to their own rules for attendance at such State and National Conventions.

SECTION 5. PENALTY

(a) The penalty, or fine, for each and every violation of either the spirit or the intent of this Act shall be fixed at a compulsory $5000 for each and every instance or occurrence; e.g. three instances would be $15,000, plus all sum(s) illegally received, knowingly or unknowingly. Such fine shall be paid by the campaign solely to the Treasury of the United States for the specific purpose of retiring the National Debt.

(b) The Federal Election Commission (FEC) shall have oversight, regulatory, and enforcement authority of the “Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2011″ or “The Voters Empowerment Act.’’