[Lnc-business] Candidate contracts - legal advice?

[Joshua Katz]

I believe the contract is unenforceable for want of consideration.  The
voter does not have their future actions constrained in any way, and so
suffers no detriment.


Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Arvin Vohra <votevohra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A few years ago, we started doing candidate pledges. We basically based
> them off the Norquist tax pledge, but made them about cutting government
> instead not just not growing it. Some include sponsoring legislation to cut
> spending to 1998 levels to eliminate the income tax, sponsoring legislation
> to cut military spending by 60 percent, sponsoring legislation to repeal
> the Patriot act, etc. The pledges are obviously voluntary.
>
> I've been considering advancing this from a pledge to a (voluntary)
> contract. There are two versions I have considered so far:
>
> 1. The contract would be signed by the candidate, with any voter able to
> act as a cosigner. The voter would download a signed pdf, sign it, and that
> would put the contract into effect.
>
> 2. The contract would be between the candidate and the LNC.
>
> Unlike the pledge, the contract would have clear, defined, monetary
> penalties. As in: "The candidate will oppose any tax increase for any
> purpose, unless it is accompanied by a larger simultaneous tax decrease, or
> will pay $10,000." Or something along those lines.
>
> Looking for legal and other input.
>
> -Arvin
>
> --
> Arvin Vohra
>
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> VoteVohra at gmail.com
> (301) 320-3634
>
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