The Clean Elections seal represents people who care about humanity and feel a responsibility to act on that care. It represents the right of every American to live a healthy and secure life. It represents the right to an education, a healthy environment and civil liberties. We want the political campaign to be about the interests of the voters, not the lobbyist.
"If we want universal health care, we need to end the influence of HMOs and drug companies. If we want same environmental policy, we need to turn off the campaign finance spigot from the oil, timber, coal, nuclear power, mineral, and agribusiness industries. If we want living wage and acceptable labor standards for workers, we need to eliminate the money pipeline from big business to lawmakers. If we want sustainable development in our communities, we need to stem the flow of cash from real estate developers, who are almost always the biggest contributors in local politics.
If we want local, state, and national budgets that reflect the priorities of the public – money for schools, transit, health care, parks, etc. – we need to end the influence of all special interests that undermines the will of the people. If we want balanced budget and same fiscal policy, we must end the massive corporate subsidies that result from campaign contributions. If we want to have our elected officials do their jobs, instead of spending their time raising money for their next election, we need to end the fund-raising rat race. If we want more candidates, and a more diverse range of candidates, we need to end the disparities in fundraising ability.
We can do this all with clean elections."
- From George Lakoff's book "Thinking Points"
Keep Congress on Track
Tell your member of Congress to put an end to the era of pay-to-play politics by passing Clean Elections campaign reform.
It's time to put full public financing for congressional elections on the table and make elections about voters and not campaign donors.