The Political Integrity Pledge is Good Electoral Politics Pt. 3
Candidates who took the pledge just keep winning.
Last night six states held primary elections: Oregon, Idaho, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Georgia. Across these states, three candidates won competitive primaries after taking the Political Integrity Pledge to:
Ban Congressional stock trading and hold no individual stocks while in office.
Reject all corporate PAC money.
Support a five-year lobbying ban for former members
Support overturning Citizens United.
Bob Brooks (PA-07,) Chris Rabb (PA-03,) and Charles Booker (KY-Sen) all won because these issues are winning issues. Even though they were up against millions of dollars in outside spending and dark money, these candidates prevailed because their integrity was worth more to the average voter than another TV ad funded by corporate donors.
There are a ton more primary elections on the horizon. See if your candidate has taken the pledge at the link here: integrityindex.us/pledge.
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Thanks,
Nico + Daniel
The problem is much bigger than IAPAC, Israel or any one, specific country.
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Money-in-Politics is The Cause;
Everything else is a Symptom.
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MoveToAmend.org
TransparentElection.org
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There will be no peace in the Middle East. We know what the outcome will be from a clash between two incompatible "an eye for an eye" cultures. Knesset overwhelmingly passes motion rejecting Palestinian statehood, days before PM's US trip The resolution argues that such a state would be an "existential threat" to Israel and would serve as a base for Palestinian extremist groups to launch further attacks.
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The feasibility of a Palestinian state depends entirely on substantive changes in Israeli policy; its borders would be the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem per pre-1967 lines, but settlement activities and political realities currently make such a state virtually unattainable
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The best position on the Middle East, for those of us supporting either side, is to stand with Bernie and focus domestically, to eliminate the influence of money-in-politics by all foreign countries on our political decisions. https://www.movetoamend.org/
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Let me be crystal clear. I am not saying that we as a group should do nothing. I am saying let us put concerted effort into issues over which we have control. Support or opposition of the conflict in Gaza is an issue and choice for each of us is to make individually; it is not an issue that should divide Berniecrats up as a group. We need every person's support for Berniecrat issues and goals that concern us all - Stay Focused.
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Mission Drift: Three Ways Mission Drift Will Take Your Organization Off Course
https://www.matthewjhall.net/articles/three-ways-mission-drift-will-take-your-organization-off-course
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Two “positive” outcomes for us in the U.S. from the conflict in Gaza.
1. The highlighting the influence of money from AIPAC for the funding weapons to Israel. This may be the initial step in raising awareness in the general public for the need to get money-out-of-politics.
2. It puts to rest the trope that opposition to the political policies of Israel are anti-Semitic.
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I'm working on Robert People for Congress's campaign, we reached out about the pledge weeks ago but haven't gotten a response