Campaign Finance Reform

Reform: ": to put or change into an improved form or condition b: to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses2: to put an end to (an evil) by enforcing or introducing a better method or course of action3: to induce or cause to abandon evil ways 4 a: to subject (hydrocarbons) to cracking b: to produce (as gasoline or gas) by cracking intransitive verb: to become changed for the better" http://www.merriam-webster.com... We do not need campaign finance reform. As my opponent has already stated "a campaign lived and dies by money." Even if we reform the system, this would likely still be the case, as running promotion of any form in society requires money, and people have different amounts of it. What we need is campaign elimination. We need to amend the Constitution and each State constitution so that all candidates for government office are locked in an underground bunker for the duration of their candidacy. No kissing babies, no advertising campaigns, no fancy slogans and absolutely no speaking to the public. Candidates will be granted access to federal or state (as appropriate) government computers that allow them to state their views, plans and methodologies on a nationally or state funded public access blog. No handlers will be allowed in this bunker to help candidates express themselves - they'll have to do it on their own. A hard copy will be printed out every day so that there is always a physical record of what the candidates say. Newspapers and media outlets may freely take information from this blog and use it to disseminate the candidate's views or explain their positions. Candidacy advertising of any form on any level at any time will be banned. Instead, nationally or state funded adverts will play, briefly outlining the political beliefs and policies of each candidate and urging voters to turn out on the polls on election day. Candidates may leave at any time, but if they do, they're out. Candidates may not raise funds to support their candidacy. If too many candidates are running for office, determined under state or federal Constitutional guidelines (as amended), then the public will be allowed a pre-screen vote to remove the least popular candidates. This vote will be held thirty days after all candidates have registered and after an advertisement has been played for one week preparing the public for it and outlining candidates' proposals. In addition to all of this, a background check will be conducted exposing the candidate's life and political decisions to intense scrutiny. All discoveries about the candidate not related to health (at least on the state level) will be posted on the blog underneath the candidate's statements. This also may be taken and disseminated by the press and the media. The discovery of any contributions to the candidate that could even be remotely perceived as a payment in support of candidacy will result in the candidate's immediate ejection. This method is certain to make sure that only the brightest and best are elected, allows the public access to understanding of the candidate's positions and eliminates finance altogether. For this reason, I urge you to vote against campaigns and the finances that continue them! Forget reform, let's throw the bums in (a bunker)! Addendum: Access to the blog will be freely available in any public libraries that have computers, so it won't prove a hindrance to the poor, only the willfully ignorant.