Posted on 08/23/2009 11:23:06 AM PDT by TheMadKing
Mr. Jerrol LeBaron of InkTip, the most successful spec script sales business in Hollywood, has now launched his Honor In Office campaign and website in an attempt to reform the way California legislators do business.
The first goal of Mr. LeBarons Honor In Office campaign is to place the Honor In Office Act on the California ballot. If passed, the Honor In Office Act would compel California state reps to legally affirm that they have read a bill in full before voting to pass it, just as every attorney in America closing any kind of legal contract is paid to do. As opposed to, say, shoving telephone directory-sized bills down our throats that no lawmaker has even read. Sound familiar?
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/21/interview-jerrol-lebaron-of-inktip-and-honor-in-office-part-1/
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/22/interview-jerrol-lebaron-of-inktip-and-honor-in-office-part-two/
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/23/interview-jerrol-lebaron-of-inktip-and-honor-in-office-part-three/
What makes him think the legislators in California can even read - or maybe all the bill in Spanish??
Start by cleaning out the Socialist CA Assembly and then clean up the unions.
supermop, ya it’s a mess. That’s why I spent so much time on this with Mr. LeBaron. He’s doing all this out of pocket. You can bitch, but that don’t fix nuthin’. How about we citizens squeeze our legislators for a change, instead of it always being the other way around? Starts with citizen-pressured referendums, laws and reforms. The Big Brooms, see?
Glad to see this story finally making it into a recognized news source. Jerrol’s an old friend, and I’ve been talking with him about this effort almost since he started it.
I wasn’t too keen on the “Honor in Office” concept when he first pitched it. Like many, I feel that the level of morals and ethics among the political class is so degraded as to make them unreachable by such a lofty measure as what Jerrol proposes.
But, then he explained something about this measure in an audio interview that’s up on his site. And that is, if this measure were to be signed into law, it would give air cover and protection to those legislators who are struggling to do the right thing. It would give the minority the political protection to refuse to support any bill that they knew was being rammed through for the wrong reasons.
I now fully support this concept, and believe that it would also work at the national level. Perhaps even better than the state level, given the large number of new reps who go to Congress with each session.
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