Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption

In order to combat corruption within our government, our administration will immediately implement Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption to abide by. We will pressure other states to implement OR's 10 Commandments in order to help weed out corruption county by county, state by state and throughout the entire US.

Right now we have a situation where lobbyist write laws, then give those laws AND MONEY to politicians voting on them. Politicians take money from industries they regulate and special interests pay for politicians vacations and lavish gifts. Politicians give tax-breaks and corporate welfare to their funders. This is why people have lost faith in our government. And this is where it all ends.

OREGON'S 10 COMMANDMENTS OF ANIT-CORRUPTION:

1. A candidate and their campaign cannot accept dark money or money from Super-PACS with undisclosed motives unless: (1) All political fundraising, campaign donations, Super-PAC spending must be immediately disclosed electronically/online and made easily accessible to the public. (2) It must be disclosed exactly where every dollar came from and what their intent/motives are. No longer will dark money with secret motives be allowed in our state.

2. Every politicians will now be recused from voting on any bills, laws, amendments or policies from an industry, organization or company that has donated to their campaign. If the Oil industry donated to ones political campaign then they don't get to vote on anything pertaining to that very industry. Under Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption, It's considered a conflict of interest and illegal.

3. All communications with lobbyist must be fully transparent and put on public record in real-time. Who are the lobbyist, who do they work for and what do they want? All Lobbyists Bundling is also prohibited. Lobbyist will often bundle together big contributions from their colleagues and deliver them in one lump sum to politicians. This turns lobbyists into major fundraisers, giving politicians an incentive to keep them happy by working political favors.

Politicians get paid vacations and lavish gifts and huge amounts of money in the form of campaign donations from the special interests who lobby them. The lobbyist. In return, politicians create laws favorable to these special interests – even when those laws hurt voters. Under Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption, people who get paid to lobby cannot donate to the campaign of very same politician they are also trying to lobby. There is the ripe potential for influential corruption. Politicians are automatically recused from voting on any bills from an industry who donated to their campaign.

4. A Congressperson leaving congress is prohibited from working for a paid lobbyist firm for up to 8 yeas after leaving their position. They are also prohibited from negotiating lobbyist jobs while in office. Any ex-US congress person who is currently a lobbyist will be prohibited from communications with any Oregon state Rep. Under Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption, this becomes illegal and ends the revolving door of corruption.

5. Rank Choice Voting or Star Voting will be implemented state wide for all elections.

Public funded elections will take effect nullifying millionaires from having a huge advantage. Voting will continue to be on a paper ballot. Hacking into computer voting machines are now considered easy to do. Teenagers have been shown to hack voting machines within a day. Paper ballots will help to end voting fraud and corruption. Automatic voter registration and same day voting will remain.

We will create a more fair voting system which will allow Third Party's an equal shot.

6. Lying on the campaign trail or while in office will now be considered a crime. Truth in Lending laws are currently in affect. So, "Truth in Politics" will now also take affect. Any politician who is blatantly lying to the public needs to be held accountable and needs to face the consequences. Clear, verifiable and undeniable lies. If they are made aware of their lie and fail to immediately and publicly acknowledge and correct it then they need to be held accountable of their crime punishable by law.

7. When congress has a 12% approval rating and yet an 88% re-election rate we know the system is broken. We will end gerrymandering by creating independent, fully transparent redistricting commissions that follow strict guidelines to ensure accurate representation for all voters, regardless of political party.

8. Politicians can no longer raise money during the workday when they should be serving their constituents. Most of the day many politicians are fundraising instead of working. This is a betrayal to their constituents. This is also a betrayal to their job. They were not hired to raise money for themselves. Only the last 3 months prior to an election can begin their fundraising.

9. Elections are being flooded with big money from secret donors via Super-PACS with billions of dollars to spend. These secretive groups run political advertisements to elect and defeat candidates of their choice...and it works all the time. This is unfair for everyday Oregonians who just want the best. Under Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption, any individual, PAC or organization that spends more then $2800 on political advertisements in Oregon is required to immediately file an online report disclosing each of its donors. Each donor who is disclosed must have a detailed description of who they are, what their line of work is and what their objectives are. The "Disclosure and Truth Act" will be implemented which makes it a punishable crime to submit false claims or descriptions of their objectives.

10. Oregon's 10 Commandments of Anti-Corruption requires all member of Oregon's Congress and all congressional officers who have any influence in laws and policy making to provide transparency of their investments, stocks and financial holdings. They are prohibited from voting on or creating any bills or policies in which they could have a potential financial gain or net profit in any way. Example, if they own stock in Boeing or Lockheed they cannot vote on any new bills or policies for funding of the military, going to war, building new war planes. This is the basic foundation of a conflict of interest and the potential for corruption via personal gain.