Pending Issues

Proposed Constitutional Convention

By The States To Amend The Constitution 

Amendment 28 – Public Funding of Federal Elections 

1.         Funding for the election of candidates for federal public office shall be paid for from public funds.  All candidates for public office shall be entitled to equal time and viewer/listener exposure to enhance a fair election.  This includes all mediums of public communication including but not limited to – printed flyers or mailers, telephone marketing, newspaper, internet, radio, & television, magazine and other forms of marketing and advertising that now exists or might exist in the future.  Funding for the public office will be administered through the agency of Public Financing of Federal Elections.

2.         No candidate would be permitted to invest or accept from others more then $1 (year 2010 dollars) per eligible person in his or her voter district to qualify and register to run for a federal public office.   This figure will be adjusted for inflation every two years after passage of this amendment and this money is restricted to use for the cost of qualifying and registering to run for federal public office.

3.         To prevail in a special, primary or national election the winning candidate must have a minimum of fifty percent plus one of all votes cast.  If no one candidate receives fifty percent plus one the top two candidates would then have twenty days to re-present themselves for public office and on the twenty first day a final election would be held to determine the winner by popular vote. 

4.         No person, organization, group of people, company, employee union or lobbyist group shall be permitted to make a direct donation or cause money to be donated on behalf of a candidate or a candidate’s policy for federal election.  Such person, organization, company employee union or lobbyist group shall be permitted to make a donation to a candidate through the Public Financing Fund and can designate that contribution for a specific candidate.  An equal amount of money from public funds shall be allocated to each candidate for their use in presenting themselves to their electorate. 

5.         No member of Congress would be permitted to register as a lobbyist or lobby members of Congress or members of a Congressional staff for two years from the date of leaving Congress. 

6.         No member of Congress shall be permitted to solicit or accept donations for a monument, chair or other position or object to be named after the member from any individual, corporation or special interest group.

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Equal Time and Time Restrictions

7.         All paid or unpaid radio stations, internet applications, print advertisement, or television stations are required to offer an equivalent opportunity to an opposing candidate (s) whenever they promote or take a position on a particular candidate or a candidate’s policy.

8.         All candidates for federal public office shall be restricted from campaigning prior to 60 days from a primary, special or general election.

9.         Public funding would apply to primary, special and general election campaigns and to the distributing of funds by political and non political organizations.  Public funding would be regionally allocated based on $6 per candidate per registered voter in the voting district.  The funding would be allocated on the basis of registered voters, and regional cost factors for advertising.  The $6.00 per registered voter would be based on the most expensive marketing areas as determined by the cost of air time on radio and television in a market area with funding adjusted downward in less expensive market areas.  (2011 dollars)

10.       Candidates would be specifically prohibited from accepting direct contributions from any individual supporter or any organizational (Corporate, non profit, religious, union or any type of group) supporter for special, primary or general elections. 

11.       The 28^th amendment to the constitution is not designed to nullify or dilute the 1st amendment to the constitution. This amendment is designed to protect the rights of the majority of the people from Public Harm by decreasing the fidelity between a candidate and a special interest group; by decreasing the monopoly of our two party system and by encouraging and making it viable for any legally qualified citizen to run for public office.

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