www.the99declaration.org is a declaration by, for and of the People demanding the removal of all private money in politics. This will not stand.
We will take back our democracy from the corporations! This Not for Profit group, formed under the laws of the State of New York. As set forth in The 99% Declaration (www.the99declaration.org) the purpose of this Working Group is to organize and fund a nationwide election of 876 delegates from all of the 435 congressional districts in the United States. One man and one woman will be elected from e
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Delegate Verify We are very excited about the progress we’ve made in preparation for the delivery of the grievances to our government. Michael Pollok, the driving force behind the idea that culminated in a convention of delegates in Philadelphia, has decided not to continue with the organization for personal reason...
08/08/2012
Economics for the 99%
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07/20/2012
More Than A National Gathering: A New Continental Congress is Born This week a new Continental Congress quietly met in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center during the Independence Day festivities. The final outcome of that meeting may have a positive impact on our nation\'s direction, By Michael Pollok
07/13/2012
Geithner drawn into Libor scandal With the scandal over alleged manipulation of a critical global interest rate threatening to migrate from London to Washington, pressure is growing on one former banking regulator to explain what he knew and when: Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.
Many believe that when an individual or association of individuals makes large contributions for the purpose of aiding candidates of political parties in winning the elections, they expect, and sometimes demand, and occasionally, at least, receive, consideration by the beneficiaries of their contributions which not infrequently is harmful to the general public interest.
65 Cong. Rec. 9507–9508 (1924) (Statement of Sen. Joseph Robinson).
We all know that money is the chief source of corruption. We all know that large contributions to political campaigns not only put the political party under obligation to the large contributors, who demand pay in the way of legislation, but we also know that large sums of money are used for the purpose of conducting expensive campaigns through the newspapers and over the radio; in the publication of all sorts of literature, true and untrue; and for the purpose of paying the expenses of campaigners sent out into the country to spread propaganda, both true and untrue.
86 Cong. Rec. 2720 (1940) (Statement of Sen. John Bankhead).
The unchecked rise in campaign expenditures coupled with the absence of limitations on contributions and expenditures, has increased the dependence of candidates on special interest groups and large contributors.
H.R.Rep. No. 93–1239, at 3 (1974).
We have gone from basically a small donor system in this country where the average person believed they had a stake, believed they had a voice, to one of extremely large amounts of money, where you are not a player unless you are in the $100,000 or $200,000 range, many contributions in the $500,000 range, occasionally you get a $1 million contribution.... Many Members are tired of picking up the paper every day and reading about an important issue we are going to be considering, one in which many interests have large sums at stake and then the second part of the story reading about the large amounts of money that are being poured into Washington on one side or the other of the issue—the implication, of course being clear, that money talks and large amounts of money talk the loudest.
147 Cong. Rec. S2958 (daily ed. March 27, 2001) (statement of Senator Fred Thompson).
"The idea is to prevent ... the great aggregations of wealth from using their corporate funds, directly or indirectly, to send members of the legislature to these halls in order to vote for their protection and the advancement of their interests as against those of the public. It strikes at a constantly growing evil which has done more to shake the confidence of the plain people of small means of this country in our political institutions than any other practice which has ever obtained since the foundation of our Government. And I believe that the time has come when something ought to be done to put a check to the giving of $50,000 or $100,000 by a great corporation toward political purposes upon the understanding that a debt is created from a political party to it."
Elihu Root, Addresses on Government and Citizenship 143 (Bacon and Scott ed.1916) (original statement made before the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York in 1894).
06/05/2012
FDR: I Welcome Their Hatred This was a liberal president without abused woman syndrome.
06/05/2012
The 99% Declaration: There is a solution. This is the final cut of the one minute television commercial for the 99% declaration which calls for an election of 876 delegates to attend a National Gener...
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04/26/2012
Be heard, take notice or ignore us at your electoral peril.
July 4, 2012, Independence Mall, Philadelphia