Public Campaign Action Fund - Alaska - Comments

Where does the money come from?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:29:30 -0500

It doesn't matter what side of the fence we are on, we all are going to have to deal with our gigantic debt. We need to stop going further in debt because there will be a day of reckoning and then the oil companies, the tree huggers, the housewives and our children and everyone will be living in a truly different world. Freedom will surly be stolen from us and we will be slaves to something we never imagined. Maybe it is time to get on our knees. Mark

Clean Elections and Polar Bear Habitat

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:30:10 -0500

Sen. Ted Stevens (of "Bridge to Nowhere" fame) is the most infamous face in the U.S. Senate; he cannot be separated from that august body one moment too soon! His antipathy toward polar bears is certainly explained by the fact that they neither have nor control vast quantities of cash. They cannot send it to him! Those of us who appreciate wildlife on its own terms must come up with money to defend auch creatures and their homes (environments) -- but the real solution in the long run is Clean Elections laws everywhere so that the days of such dirty and unscrupulous politicians as Ted Stevens will be over!

Mr. Stevens has been

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:14:48 -0500

Mr. Stevens has been chomping at the bit for over 20 years to get the powers that are in power in power. Relieving the environmentalists of their influence only increases his power and stature within the Capitalist Run For the Money. If the polar bears win, Senator Stevens is for naught.

Ted Stevens

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:57:09 -0500

I would be more than happy to give the first $1,000 donation to open a fund to hire a hitperson to chase down Ted Stevens from a helicopter and shoot him when he finally tires out, like they are doing to the wolves in Alaska. That old, white, decrepit bully has been in office far too long sucking off the public trough and hurting Alaska and its wildlife. Stevens HAS TO GO!

But just wait for the last

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:11:15 -0500

But just wait for the last days of Bush when they open the whole habitat up for the oil grubbers. Take my word for it, it's coming.

Polar Bears vs. Senator Stevens

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:57:03 -0500

In the immortal words of science fiction writer Robert Heinlein: "People laugh because they hurt." Political greed and short-sighted oil grubbing seems to knock out Ma Nature and her creatures' needs entirely too often. I sincerely hope that the honorable senator (without benefit of firearms protection, of course--we must keep a level playing field!) does actually meet a starving polar bear who's just lost her cubs. Thanks for the wry humor in the face of a really dire situation.

Preventing ballot initiative confusion

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:58:22 -0500

Problems with deceptive ballot initiatives can be solved by giving citizens the information legislators get: public hearings, expert testimony, public reports, etc. The best proposal to make initiatives more deliberative (and easier, less influenced by money and NATIONAL) is from former Alaskan U.S. Senator Mike Gravel: Vote.org. Another is: Citizen's Initiative Review.

Oil Tax

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:52:57 -0500

Pete Kott. Good. It would be great if they could get to the bottom of Bush & Chenney in there oil involment also. I am sure It's not on the straight.

lock them all up and throw

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:18:45 -0500

lock them all up and throw away the key!

Ted Stevens needs fined AND

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:44:57 -0500

Ted Stevens needs fined AND kicked out of the Senate without the pleasure of a Pension to bolster his work Or his influence! RICK

Buckley v Valeo

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:52:14 -0500

I wish public financing supporters would quit reinforcing the simplistic notion that the Supreme Court decision Buckley v Valeo ruled that "money equals speech." It didn't. If a candidate is spending their own money, then the Court ruled you can't limit how much they can spend because in that particular instance "money equals speech." But when donors give money to candidates or their campaigns, "money does NOT equal speech" and those donations can be limited (as long as those limits are not too draconian, Randell v Sorrell). Saying that "money equals speech" confuses audiences unfamiliar with how voluntary Clean Money systems work and allows opponents to sow doubt about their constitutionality.