Posted on 04/25/2016 7:02:02 AM PDT by StCloudMoose
“We sat behind closed doors at one of the party headquarters’ backrooms in front of a whiteboard where the equation was drawn out,” Rep. David Jolly (R-FL13) described to 60 Minutes. “You have six months until the election. Break that down to having to raise $2 million in the next six months, and your job, new member of Congress, is to raise $18,000 a day. Your first responsibility is to raise $18,000 a day.”
Jolly has introduced the bill H.R. 4443, the Stop Act, to combat this problem. It would prohibit federal politicians, notably Members of Congress, from personally soliciting contributions for any federal election activity.
(Unlike most similarly-titled congressional bills, that’s not an acronym and isn’t short for anything. It’s just, quite simply, the Stop Act.)
WHAT SUPPORTERS SAY
“We can’t have a part-time Congress in a full-time world,” said Jolly in the press release announcing the bill’s introduction. “Too many in Congress are more focused on raising money than solving the problems people elected them to fix.”
While federal officials would not be allowed to ask for campaign donations, the campaigns themselves would still be allowed to. Citizens would still be allowed to contribute to any campaign of their choosing. Jolly also noted that this ban already exists for judicial elections in 30 states, a practice the Supreme Court recently upheld when it was challenged in Florida.
Some Members of Congress spend as much as 30 hours a week soliciting campaign contributions, an amount many consider far too high considering the more pressing public policy issues they should be dealing with. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who doesn’t appear to have weighed in on this specific bill, recently estimated that two-thirds of his time in Congress was spent raising money. The Huffington Post published a secret document prepared by the Democratic Party advising its members to spend four hours a day fundraising.
The bill has six cosponsors, five Republicans and one Democrat: Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI7), Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC3), Rep. John Mica (R-FL7), Rep. Richard Nolan (D-MN8), Rep. Richard Nugent (R-FL11), and Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI8).
U.S. Rep. says calling donors for money is a shameful distraction http://www.cbsnews.com/news/preview-dialing-for-dollars/
This is one of the many, many things about Washington politics that makes people sick. Add that to the fact that this guy can barely muster up a dozen supporters of his bill. Throw all and I mean ALL the bums out.
Ridiculous
Jolly has introduced the bill H.R. 4443, the Stop Act, to combat this problem. It would prohibit federal politicians, notably Members of Congress, from personally soliciting contributions for any federal election activity.
Having “campaigns” solitict the funds is no better. LOok at what the PACS have done this election.
As for as judicial elections go they are the ultimate insider positions. Someone steps down, a new judge is appointed by the governor or judicial committeee then they run as an incumbent with no affiliation.
We need shorter election cycles so people focus on races during that period, Campaigns cannot start officially or unofficially more than six months in advance of the party conventions for President. Presidential campaigns can have no advertising between the convention and 90 days before the election. Senate and House race campaigns cannot be more than three months in advance with party challengers allowed one year to meet, greet and raise money prior to the primary election.
No donations; no volunteers.
It isn’t a ‘shameful distraction’; it is THE Congressional IMPERATIVE. That is ALL these duplicitous bastards care about. They will lie to your face, steal, cheat and collude to get the money to put their bullsh!t ads on the air that piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining.
It has been shown this cycle you only need to speak the truth, not collude, not cheat, and tell what’s in your heart instead of what your “career plan” tells you to do.
I saw that program last night. I already had a low opinion of the members of congress. This made my opinion even lower.
Of course, a true conservative would say that the way to bring down the cost of Congressmen is to increase the supply. If each Congressman represented 80,000 people instead of 800,000 people, you could cut the cost of campaigning by more than a factor of 10. So they would spend maybe 3 hours a week raising funds. In fact, they could actually have a day job that financed their living instead of living off the bribes of special interests.
EVERY MEMMBER O F THE HOUSE is up for re-eleion every 2 years
I don’t care if you are democrat or republican THROW YOUR MEMBER OUT
We need term limits. 2 terms for anyone AND judges need an impeachment process
It looks like he just wants the actual politicians to be excused from soliciting. The campaigns are still required/allowed to solicit, but he wants the Congressmen/women free to do their work. With so much Soros money in the Left camp, the Republicans are definitely at a disadvantage.
I think some concerned voters who live in the area should just stand outside both buildings taking pictures of who goes in and out, recording the time of entry and exit, and then post the data here and anywhere else that will allow it to be posted.
Citizens would still be allowed to contribute to any campaign of their choosing
Makes me wonder what Pelosi and Reid and the other fixers are doing now no news on them of late are they calling in favors and debts?.
Oui, mon capitain. (sharp salute).
I wouldn’t mind Sean Duffy being VP or in the trump administration. He is a great conservative. Has a great family and didn’t get involved in the Cruz mess in Wisconsin. He said his district would go for trump.
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