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What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? E.g. promoting a constitutional amendment against

by brylie 9y ago

What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? E.g. promoting a constitutional amendment against conflict-of-interest or corruption. The closest I can think of is The Rootstrikers campaign, started by Lawrence Lessig: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootstrikers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootstrikers

chimeracoder 9y ago
> What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? E.g. promoting a constitutional amendment against conflict-of-interest or corruption. The closest I can think of is The Rootstrikers campaign, started by Lawrence Les New York doesn't have ballot initiatives like some states do. Constitutional amendments have to be proposed by the legislature, and they're going to be pretty unlikely to vote to take away their own power.
arca_vorago 9y ago
Represent.Us and this weekend the big UnrigTheSystem conference in Louisiana. Represent.Us has been focusing on passing state level anticorruption acts until we fix congress enough to pass federal ones. To show just how corrupt things are, they got one passed in South Dakota and the powers turned around and did this https://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/south-dakota-republicans-state-of-emergency-is-a-brazen-political-coup-against-anti-corruption-law/ https://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/south-dakota-republicans-st... Personally I have spent a long time thinking about these issues and I think at the federal level both parties are so corrupt that my 2020 campaign will be based on taking the majority away from both parties, and uniting independents, libertarians, constitutionalists, the green, and other parties under a coalition dedicated to actually representing their constituents.
acct1771 9y ago
> What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? In the not-so-distant past, there was a pretty successful initiative where people would occasionally end the lives of people who blatantly stole from them, or egregiously misrepresented them, while holding a position in representative government.

by brylie 9y ago

chimeracoder 9y ago

> What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? E.g. promoting a constitutional amendment against conflict-of-interest or corruption. The closest I can think of is The Rootstrikers campaign, started by Lawrence Les New York doesn't have ballot initiatives like some states do. Constitutional amendments have to be proposed by the legislature, and they're going to be pretty unlikely to vote to take away their own power.

arca_vorago 9y ago

Represent.Us and this weekend the big UnrigTheSystem conference in Louisiana. Represent.Us has been focusing on passing state level anticorruption acts until we fix congress enough to pass federal ones. To show just how corrupt things are, they got one passed in South Dakota and the powers turned around and did this https://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/south-dakota-republicans-state-of-emergency-is-a-brazen-political-coup-against-anti-corruption-law/ https://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/south-dakota-republicans-st... Personally I have spent a long time thinking about these issues and I think at the federal level both parties are so corrupt that my 2020 campaign will be based on taking the majority away from both parties, and uniting independents, libertarians, constitutionalists, the green, and other parties under a coalition dedicated to actually representing their constituents.

acct1771 9y ago

> What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? In the not-so-distant past, there was a pretty successful initiative where people would occasionally end the lives of people who blatantly stole from them, or egregiously misrepresented them, while holding a position in representative government.