A Third Way

We are the Jefferson Smith Movement. Jefferson Smith was a character in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He was appointed a US Senator and had to fight graft and corruption single handed.

We are searching for 435 individuals to run for all the seats in the

House of Representatives and 28 individuals to run for the open Senate seats in the 2010 election. We are searching for honest and honorable people to reform the Congress of the United States. We do not care about their sex, their race, or their religion. It is our intent to reform the congress, its ethics, its benefits, and its rules. We invite Democrats, Republicans, and independents to join us.

Both political parties have betrayed us. They have become bigger than the Republic they represent. We have witnessed this betrayal in the looting of our national treasury. The greatest theft in the history of mankind has taken place in the past year. Our monies were distributed to organizations and individuals that are no friends to our Republic. This was all done in the dark of night without debate. We were told that this was to protect us from collapse. Ask yourself, who wrote the bills? Ask yourself, how did this bill help me? We are no less fragile than the former Soviet Union. We could disappear from history in the blink of an eye. No nation has ever accumulated such debt. Yet our leaders are rushing to compound this problem with more debt.



This is the platform that we offer our people.



1.) Place the congress of the United States under the Federal Employees Ethics Regulations with two exceptions. They may place their assets in a blind trust and they may take part in partisan politics.



2.) Reform the benefits of the US Congress. Examples: Force them to vote on all future raises. Limit pensions to the highest level given to GS Employees with no pension paid for less than ten years of service. Require all congressmen to attend all sessions and vote unless ill or a death in the family.



3.) Change the rules of both houses. Example: Allow no bill in excess of two hundred pages. All bills shall have minimum of thirty days debate before a vote can be taken. If amendments are placed on the bill an additional 30 days of debate shall be initiated. No one shall have access to government cars, planes, or ships unless paid for by the Congressman's or Senator's state.



4.) Three amendments to the Constitution will be sent to the States.



A.) English shall be the official language of all Government.



B.) Term limits shall be placed on both houses of Congress: The House of Representatives shall be limited to four terms and the US Senate shall be limited to two terms.



C.) Primary elections shall be done by time zones with the first taking place the first Saturday in March and each consecutive month on the first Saturday. The National Election shall be the first Saturday in November. No campaigning or advertising shall be done until 90 days prior to the first primary.



5.) Three national contests shall be established to address mankind's most demanding problems: Pollution, Energy, and Water.



A.) A nonpolluting process that will operate our mega watt power plants at the same average cost per kilowatt hour that was in effect as of January 2010.



B.) A desalinization process that will meet all the water needs of our country. The cost shall be no greater than what the average cost of water in the nation as of January 2010.



C.) A motor that can operate any size vehicle that we choose on land, sea or air. It can not be powered by any fossil fuel or food product and it can't emit any pollution. It must operate at the equivalent of $2.50 per gallon.



The prize for these contests shall be One Billion tax free dollars. The only caveat shall be that the American people shall receive 25 percent of the royalties generated by these inventions.



6.) We shall establish energy independence in 5 years by utilizing all available sources of energy. This is our alternative to establishing a Cap and Trade system that will destroy our economy with little or no effect on the environment.



If these proposals seem reasonable to you please join us.

We will never ask you to storm guns, fight knives, or beat fists. We ask nothing more than your voice to join ours and your vote. We do ask that you do not join any protests, marches or demonstrations. When our voices go out in protest we are portrayed as racist or right wingers. We have a profound disagreement with the intellectuals that are driving us to our destruction. We are offering the American people a new direction. We offer a peaceful way to protect our Constitution and our Republic.