It is legitimate for the voters to ask the Presidential candidates whether or not they agree that the American people should use the 2016 elections to force the current Congress to act before November 8th.
As with the Declaration itself, a Presidential candidate may take the position that nothing is badly wrong with Congress that needs urgent attention before November 8th, and the Presidential candidate can and should so say.
Or the Presidential candidate may say "such and such is badly wrong, and Congress is rightly being called on to give, before November 8th, priority attention to fixing it."
Where does your Presidential candidate stand on #DeclareForDemocracy? Will you ask your Presidential candidate to take a position on #DeclareForDemocracy?
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For meaning of this, see the asterisk language at the bottom of 2016 Congressional candidates' Declarations.
TWEETING LINKS TO THIS
I am tweeting links to this to users of various hashtags, such as the #nhprimary hashtag and the candidates' hashtags. My tweets say
Where does your Presidential candidate stand on #DeclareForDemocracy? http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/02/where-do-presidential-candidates-stand.html(Periodically updated count of page views of this: 400)
(See NEW HAMPSHIRE tweeting bank.)
TWEETS/REPLIES OF CANDIDATES' SUPPORTERS
Trump supporters' tweets/replies
Clinton supporters' tweets/replies
Cruz supporters' tweets/replies
Sanders supporters' tweets/replies
WORK OF OTHERS
1. Rootstrikers
Rootstrikers has an online petition to tell the Presidential candidates to get serious about fighting big money in politics. If you sign the petition, this letter is delivered to the candidates for you.
Along with 85% of Americans, I believe that our country’s system for funding political campaigns must be fixed.The Rootstrikers website currently says 219,041 citizens have signed the petition.
Please lay out a concrete, detailed plan to reduce the influence of billionaires and big money in politics. Your plan should include the core planks of the Fighting Big Money agenda, the best, nonpartisan package of principles and policies for reform.
2. On January 28th, ChangePolitics reported the below information:
What can you achieve in the first 100 days as president to stop super PACs and special interest groups from hijacking our elections?
439 votes
Top upvoted questions will be delivered to the candidates
Without campaign finance reform, the voices of everyday Iowans like me are not being heard. No issue that is not supportive of the donor class will be heard before transparency and accountability are increased in campaign finance.
RESPONSES
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