[Lnc-business] Candidate contracts - legal advice?

[Ken Moellman]

I like this idea. I thought about writing one up for my 2011 campaign on
my own, and just port it to my website. 

I think it might be an interesting experiment to leave the numbers as
fill-in-the-blank. The seriousness of a candidate could be judged by
what they fill in. 

It's my understanding that the 1994 Republican "Contract with America"
started out like this, except it said something about "if you break
campaign promises you agree to not run for re-election" or something
like that. But that part was removed. 

ken 

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Ken C. Moellman, Jr.
LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative
LPKY Judicial Committee 

On 2016-10-22 12:41, Arvin Vohra 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 
> 
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> Arvin Vohra
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