Here it is! The Democrats' Honest Leadership & Open Government Act

[cyberpj]

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/01/the_democratic.php

[cyberpj]

1. And here's Dean's letter - and The Pledge

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/01/dean_we_need_to.php

[truebrit71]

2. What a great letter from the Doc...

Boy am I glad he's the head of the DNC...can you iamgine Terry Mcauliffe saying anything REMOTELY like this...."But when it comes to Republicans who have already broken the law, we need to clean house."....??

Nope.

Neither can I.

Howard Dean speaks for me!!!

[cyberpj]

3. "Let's do it together" was the perfect touch. A plea to unify. Good job!

[Sadie5]

4. Saw it on C-Span

And for the first time in a long time I was really impressed with each of the Dem speakers. They really sound like they mean business. Later flipped over to CNN and it was one of the top stories. Chuck(think that was his name) somebody on CNN gave the Repig side too. Said that what the Pigs offered yesterday was nothing more than what had been going on in the past. Just a different way to word it.

[Village Idiot]

8. OOps - guess I was wrong about that one...Sorry.

[cyberpj]

10. kick.

[Village Idiot]

5. Too bad the CSM will never mention it.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Even CNN has figured it out! NEITHER PARTY will forbid lobbyists holding

fundraisers for members of Congress and "delivering those campaign checks" which Gore told us on Monday are used to pay for those 30 second TV ads.

This is not real reform and will not clean up the "culture of corruption" in Washington.

From Common Cause, Ethics in Government:

Prohibit registered lobbyists from acting as fundraisers and campaign treasurers for federal elected officials. According to the Center for Public Integrity, 79 Members of Congress have named lobbyists to serve as treasurers of their campaign committees. Hundreds more lobbyists have become effective fundraisers for presidential campaigns, pulling in contributions from clients or corporate political action committees. Indeed, Abramoff raised $100,000 for the Bush campaign in 2004 and was designated a Pioneer. Lobbyists raise campaign funds because they want to become indispensable to people in power, knowing that the services they perform will be rewarded by the access and influence they gain.

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=196485 (link expires quickly)

[Village Idiot]

7. No wonder the 'Thugs are using Santorum to counter...

Shut Down Pay-to-Play Schemes Like the "K Street Project." End efforts like the "K Street Project," which Republicans created to tell corporations and lobbying firms whom they should hire in exchange for political access.


Santorum presides over the "K Street Project" to ensure that only RePIGlican friendly firms get the jobs...

[Old and In the Way]

9. But this could put Republicans out of Business!

How would the Republican Syndicate survive if they couldn't run a pay-to-legislate enterprise with their corporate benefactors?

[Peace Patriot]

11. We're not going to have honest leadership and open government until

we have honest, transparent, verifiable elections.

In fact, we are going to have fascist government forever, unless Bushite corporations--Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia--and all private corporations that insist on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code for vote tabulation, and who lavishly lobby and corrupt our election officials, and who resist audit/recount controls, are thrown out of our election system completely.

We have a good many Democratic election officials, and elected representatives--and, indeed, virtually the entire upper leadership of the Democratic Party--who remained silent while this egregiously non-transparent election system was put into place. It is my suspicion that these are pretty much the same people who voted for, or supported, Congress giving away its power to declare war to George Bush. If it's honest and open government they want, when are they going to fess up to SELLING AWAY our right to vote? And when are they going to remedy it?

There is considerable evidence of the DNC bringing an "Iron Curtain" down over any talk about this obviously fraudulent election SYSTEM. The silence was deafening. And I can only guess the level of fear and/or collusion that created that screaming silence. And I want to know why. How could Democrats be silent about this--not on Nov. 2 or 3, 2004, after the damage had been done--but WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING, in the 2001-2004 period during which the $4 billion H.A.V.A. boondoggle was distributed to Bush's buds at Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, through many Democratic as well as Republican hands.

To me, this is THE question of honest leadership and open government. And until it is answered, we will have neither.

We need a BIG BROOM, true enough. But it is not only the Republican Party that needs its house cleaned.

[hootinholler]

12. This is a good start...

Where are the misguided executive abuse of national security power reforms? I just don't see "the Open Government" part of the Bill, which assumedly would be related to the classification of political information aka the No gag orders of whistleblowers like Sibel Edmunds law.

-Hoot

[texpatriot2004]

13. Thanks for the link to this Act nm