Run for Congress under the GOOOH Party?
I just found out about this non-partisan political party that just started up. GOOOH stands for Get Out Of Our House. Their plan is to get all the career politicians out of Congress and replace them with normal people like us. Lawyers and wealthy people (11.7mil) are not allowed to join the party. Each member answers over 100 questions upon joining and donates at least $100. Members will not be allowed to vote differently from the original questionnaire without getting permission or resigning within 72-hours. The money is used to run a national campaign for GOOOH candidates so they are not allowed to take money from special interests. Each district goes through a candidate selection/elimination process so that there only ends up being 1 GOOOH candidate per district. I am doing some soul-searching to see if this is right for my path. I highly suggest that we all check this out as a good way to continue the r3volution.
www.goooh.com
Correction
"Originally, the founder of GOOOH proposed excluding lawyers, members of political families, and individuals with more than $11.5 million in assets (250 times the median income). They were not to be excluded because they are bad people, but because they are overly represented in government today and, generally speaking, no longer seem to represent the common man. However, based on input from our members, the Question Committee has voted to remove the exclusion of laywers and the wealthy. Instead, it has been decided that members of these two groups must simply declare that they are a lawyer or have more than $11.5m in assets in each Selection Session in which they participate. It will be up to the participants in each pool to decide whether or not that is of concern. We believe this change is indicative of the continuing evolution of the GOOOH system."
After reading this, I'm much more interested.
For liberty!! *gong*
bookmarked
and bumped
Why not RPR's?
We have a few constitutionalists here. I think we can device it here by just asking for a donation, perhaps to the campaign. Not the standard $100 fee the website charges. We can also introduce Economics questionaires. You can't be a good leader of a country if you don't know how to serve it.
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." Confucius
Sign up anyway
If you make it through the vetting process and you're in my district, I'll vote for you for congress!!! And you don't give the $100 until you choose to enter the process and qualify.
Unfortunately, as of today I do not qualify because despite NOT being a lawyer, I have defended one suit and plan to file another against the gov't. Maybe when I win my new case you'll want me there anyway on the RP platform. :-)
On the surface this sounds
like a good idea, but the reality is that this is no better then when we have now. Elected officials are supposed to be held accountable to the people. Now all they are doing is shifting the accountability to an organization. Why would I want to support a candidate that was more accountable to an organization versus me no matter what the ideology is supposed to be?
Btw, once you are sworn in as an official, they cannot force you to resign. So that is just silly.
I thought it was a good idea..
but anything that asks for money up front makes me skeptical. Sounds good in theory, though.
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
Good grief.
I worry about an organization that would even think to ask if you would limit what a person could rightfully inherit.
They have to ask
to weed out ppl who would do dumb stuff like steal our inheritances
'Live for yourself, there's no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more...'