Anyone who circulates an independent candidate petition is eligible for the Reform Party nomination. The Reform Party will vote by telephone, by Internet, by mail ballots and in person at the 2000 nominating convention to choose the nominee from among candidates who circulated independent candidate petitions. Our potential nominees will come forward at the end of 1999 or the beginning of 2000, abiding by our principle of keeping campaigns shorter rather than longer, and we will still have ample time to attain the necessary ballot access, choose the nominee and conduct a vigorous campaign for the presidency. Even now, wealthy communities have good public schools and poor communities have much worse, and this is with federal support. In order to accomplish that, the federal government collects taxes from every community, runs it through the federal bureaucracy, and then returns it to the community it came from without educating one single person in the process.
Education is a local issue.
Schools should be small, neighborhood schools, and the funding should be local funding, not run through the siphon of the federal government. Essentially the Reform Party focuses on economic reform and government reform issues. As a demonstration of the truth, the 1998 elections were nationalized on the theme of spending the surplus for education in the Democratic Party, and spending the surplus for tax breaks in the Republican Party. They were proposing to spend it not to save Social Security, but to offset expenditures under the progressive income tax such as tax breaks or education costs. All the Reform Party will have to offer is the truth.