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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 1 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 1 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 9 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Independent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

9        How will We the People across our nation the create Local US District Chapters of the Independent American Peasant Party.  What are the functional responsibilities of each local AP Party Chapter and how will they select, qualify, and promote our Independent candidates for the November 2012 National Election. 

In response to Number 9 of 9,

For Your Consideration

First – Why Are We Here?

Again, this is written to You, an individual American citizen. You could be an individual man or woman seriously considering being a candidate for office. Maybe it’s the first time you ever considered it or at least the first time it ever looked like there might be a way it could happen!  And You and I will not need to be millionaires, either!

Or, you could be a volunteer type of person that is looking for background on this Independent party movement you heard about. Or some other variation of frustrated and/or curious You seeking something sensible in the political system that you could believe in and support in some way.  

I am here looking for You all. Because if many of You do not act upon what is presented herein then this entire effort will go no further.

Throughout history it has often been only one that has deliberated and then presented their sincere suggestion for the betterment of the Masses for them to consider, but only when they decided to act does anything come of the initial effort of only one. 

This is such a moment and only You the People can decide and will determine what, if anything happens next. 

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The Concept of a Self-Generating, Grassroots, Third Party Movement

That is a mouth full isn’t it?  This is where the rubber meets the road!  In the end this can turn out to be amazingly straightforward.

This entire presentation is a cookbook approach to making a viable, grassroots, Independent political movement.  And in this case an Electoral Revolution.  To make our revolution a success what are the political realities or ingredients required that yield a successful Mass civil action?  We would need: 

• A country whose Masses are struggling against the public dysfunction of their own government.  We have that.
• An economy that was once great, but now is terminally broken.  We have that. 
• More than a third of our people struggling below the poverty line and many more falling below it each month because of the increasing cost-of-living.  We have that. 
• A government that gives lip service to saving the Middle Class and never even mentions those in the Lower Class accept in derogatory terms. We have that.
• A 2-Party Political System and a Congress that are completely sold-out to the Few with Power and Wealth and is out of contact with the deteriorating conditions of the Masses.  We have that.
• The possibility of a viable Third Party to act to balance nation’s politics with the other two (2) parties.  We have that.
• A platform from that third Party that is citizen and problem solution oriented, and a person offering to lead that party and is truly concerned about the Common Good of the Masses.  We have that.
• And a unique campaign approach and plan that will allow us to replace the majority of the members of Congress in 2012 with our own Independent candidates that are committed supporting the new Independent party’s written, and citizen-oriented platform.  We have that, as well.  

We do have these necessary ingredients and more to make our Electoral Revolution a success and now We need (at least) 435 such kitchens to be freely and independently established across the country by small, motivated groups of our citizen volunteers.  Minutemen and Minute-women, if you will! 

Each Democracy Kitchen will organize itself and operate against a standard plan and any issues that come up will be practically and peacefully resolved as they are encountered.  Those independent kitchens will work and coordinate with each other to produce up to 435 US Reps, up to 100 US Senators,  Those will join with the Presidential (yours truly) and Vice Presidential (to be determined) candidates for the campaign. 

These candidates will be set-up to officially compete for the seats in Congress and the White House this November 6^th.  The volunteers from those kitchens will support and promote their AP Party candidates and others across the country thru the campaign season. 

That is how our Electoral Revolution shall be accomplished with 435 Democracy Kitchens working together for the Common Good, if We do our collective best to follow this common sense political recipe presented herein… 

 

More Than Just 435 Democracy Kitchens

Please note that while I constantly reference 435 US District Chapters in reality there will actually be a few thousand should this grassroots movement be accepted by our fellow American citizens. AP Party Chapters will spring up in towns and cities all over a given state when the People find out how citizen, family, and neighborhood friendly its focus and policies are. 

Consider there are over 3,000 counties and parishes (Louisiana) across America most of which are well-populated.  The simple math from the 2010 census is 310,000,000 citizens / 435 US Districts = 712,643 citizens per USD.  One of Congress favorite things is reapportionment and redistricting to balance these population shifts.  Both parties seem to always find time to work on this.  For example, Florida gained population and went from 27 to 29 US Districts in 2012 which means other states lost those two (2) districts. 

My guidance is that the Lead Administrative Chapter for US District be formed in the primary or largest city therein.  This will support the practical need for central coordination especially during the candidate selection phase. 

Therefore, when I am referring to the USD Chapters below I am referring functionally to those 435 Lead Administrative Chapters.

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 First We Walk and Last We Vote

This is a brief overview of the flow of Our 2012 Electoral Revolution from early February thru November 6, 2012.  

I have given this overall process the formal title of “Walk, Select, Sign and Vote – Against Princes and Princesses” with the latter reference to the men and women currently in the House and Senate.  That is after all what they must think they are.

I will probably be using WSSVAPP as the name of the Central Blog and/or Facebook for communication from and postings to the Central Chapter of the AP Party. 

Walk

I suggest that those interested in organizing and meeting people besides contacting those they already know plan at least one (1) weekly public gathering time during February and possibly into March.  I would suggest Saturday from noon to 2pm in front of your County, Parish, or City Hall. 

Just have a good old fashioned “walk-about” – an open, public setting for people to come by and ask questions or just listen to others talking about the movement.  People can network, exchange contact info, and find out how to join the local Chapter. 

I will be starting in my local area Carroll County, Maryland on Saturday February 11^th.  The prior weekend is the Super Bowl and people have partying on their mind.

Do not bother with a permit to start because this is public space and the facilities should be closed on Saturday. As those you know to show up and advertise a little each week as you can.  Let the local press know what you are doing and see if maybe they could stop by too.  That will be the best free advertising we can get even if it is light soft or neutral the first week or so.

 

These Walks will bring the first volunteers and want-to-be candidates to your Chapter and it will grow as the members begin to network and the Press covers what is happening with this new Third party grassroots movement.  Remember reporters and Editors are looking for political stories this year and they are as worried about the economy as we are.  They have to buy gas and groceries, too!

I will also be pushing the movement of Twitter (@OURIAPP), my Facebook (Andrew Jaye Wildman) a little, and the AP Party Blog (OutIAPP.typepad.com). And the new site or sites noted above.  I will be doing research into the states Ballot requirements and postings the Job Openings for Congress around the country. 

I will be pushing hard on the topics of freezing gas and grocery prices, Proposal #10 issues around murder, rape, pedophile crimes, and Proposal #22 about Health Care Insurance for ALL Americans. I suggest you do the same especially with the Press.  And I will not be quiet about it. 

The Walks will start in February and should run into March.

Select

As a by-product of the Walks and advertising you will have want-to-be candidates showing up around the state.  The Committees mentioned below will coordinate the selection process and there will be more information on the AP Party Blog site and/or others. 

For my part, I will need to identify a viable VP candidate, as soon as possible.  Sometimes the VP name needs to be on the Petitions when signatures are collected. Mid-April is my target date.   As stated I prefer for a woman to fill that position and would appreciate qualified suggestions.  

This selection process will start in late March and needs to be done in April.  We will miss some states, but very few if We keep the process moving.  In some of those We will have the Write-In process as a viable backup plan.

Sign

Once the candidates are identified and all paperwork is in place the Petition Signature gathering will begin in line with each state’s Start and End Dates.  This should be the easiest part of the process once the public warms to the movement.  Again, We will set-up in public locations on certain days of the week and certain time frames and the people will come.  There is a committee noted for this below.

This could start in late April depending on the Selection process and the Start Date for Petition gathering. 

This is all going to scare the **** out of both Parties and will make the evening news and the campaign’s content much more interesting. 

Vote

We will help get the vote out in every way we can and the rest will be history.  The goals are to get at least a majority of seats in the House and in the Senate as well which will be a bit more complicated.

And that is WSSVAPP…

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Establish and Organize the Chapter

Just like the people of Wisconsin that joined together to collect 1,000,000 signatures to Recall the Governor they are displeased with and even more like what the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement did starting on September 19, 2011 – people from neighborhoods will hear about the AP Party grassroots movement and say to themselves We could do that here.

The first AP Party volunteers in each US District will get some friends, neighbors, co-workers together and begin organizing and spreading the word about the grassroots movement in their area e.g.. town, city, county, etc.  

They will only need to form a few committees to get started and make real progress. Some committee types and their function are suggested for starting your Chapter and making to quickly productive. 

The AP Party US District Chapter Code

The AP Party Chapters are intended to be independent in operation.  While there will some guidance such as this from yours truly at the start of this movement and from a Headquarters Chapter eventually, my intent is that the Chapters run their operations without any heavy over-site from a party Central Committee. The Chapters are formed to support the Common Good of the citizens in their respective areas from Day One.  They should evolve and expand into a community service group.   

The forming of the AP Party US District Chapter network is the beginning of a revival of Democracy in American government. They will be the People’s voice and will provide watchful, public over-site of the legislative process in the US Congress going forward.

State Ballot and Recall Requirements Committee

This committee will follow the instructions in #6 above to document and carefully verify the state’s Ballot Requirements for the US Representative, US Senator, and President/VP.  They will also start the process of documenting the Recall Requirements for US Senator in their state that will certainly be more detailed and legalistic.

The first Chapters established in a given state can share that data with other groups formed in their state. Remember that this is not a one (1) year exercise as the AP Party will become a permanent part of the American political system. The working relationships of USD Chapters within and between states must be mutually supportive in nature from Day One.

Note: While Chapters may set-up a bank account and some organizational entity, do not collect any donations toward a candidate campaign fund until you verify your state’s related guidelines. 

Also, that candidate campaign committees are for-profit organizations as far as thje IRS is concerned.  Thus, donations to them are not tax deductible.

The Chapter Communications Committee

They will of course focus on spreading the word of their US District Chapter, the AP Party, and the Independent political platform across their US District and beyond.  The first Chapters in a given state will promote the establishment of others in the state and across the nation through their network of friends, family, and co-workers.

Of course, each Chapter could and should create its own Facebook account and/or Internet site to post and distribute information about the Chapter events, the AP Party and its platform, and in time about their candidate(s). 

Potential Candidate(s) Selection Committee

They will work to attract potential candidates for their US Representative’s seat in the House and one (1) Senator if their state has one up for election this year.

I will offer the following comments regarding the selection criteria of potential AP Party candidates. These are not rules I am handing down, but based on my political perspective are rational points to be considered by the Chapters in identifying and qualifying viable candidates from each US District and state, and to yield a representative cross-section of our population in the new US Congress! My thoughts in no particular order are:

• I believe in heading off arguments, so this issue should be brought early and often in the Chapter meetings on the selection process.
• In a perfect world we would replace each member of the existing Congress with an identical profile regarding age, gender, race, etc., but that is not likely to happen.
• I would strongly suggest that the trying to keep to the same gender and race balance would be very desirable, but at the same time We cannot discourage good people from coming forward for any office based on any personal characteristic.
• No offense, but We do not want all white dudes or all women!  If I had to choose though it would be more women, but only those that are determined to fix things not just go to fundraisers and compare shoes! 
• Age must be at least 25 or 30 depending on the House or Senate respectively. I would suggest the upper sixties as of 2012 as a top age range.  The oldest of the Baby Boomer generation is 65 this year. I will be 64 in July!
• Overall I would expect the average age of Congress to drop as younger people compete for these offices and I believe that will be a good thing overall. Too much nearly deadwood in Congress right now!
• Preferably no one that has been involved in Party politics all their life.  That is a dead giveaway to a political hard liner. No hard Right or Left please.
• No elected political experience is a Great plus. Less baggage.
• Pretty or handsome is not required!
• No lawyers please, please, please. The majority of the current members of Congress declare their profession to be a lawyer and see how that has worked out for getting these solved.  Lawyers are taught from the first day of Law school to argue to win and being right has nothing to do with it. Please! 
• They must fully support the written AP Party platform and there may well be a written Pledge to be signed to that affect. We do not want any Right or Left Wing zealots sneaking into the Party and the selection process within each USD should weed them out.  Just be careful.

Those are my thoughts on the issue.  

Additional comments and procedures for the final selection of the Chapters first candidate(s) will be posted on the internet in the next few months.  Be assured that only the people in the respective US District and state will select their candidate(s) – not yours truly or some central Chapter. 

Plan the Signature Ballot Collection Dates

It may seem a bit pre-mature thinking, but not really. This all needs to happen over the next 3 to 4 months or so.   We need to be collecting Petition signatures for House, Senate, and President/VP in April, May, June depending upon a given state’s criteria.  And it can be accomplished. 

I offer that Tuesday evenings about 6:00 to 7:30pm and Saturday from 11:00am to 2:00pm would be convenient for most people as a national standard. It could always be extended and maybe a time on Sunday afternoon after church hours could be added by a given AP Party US District Chapter at their discretion.

AP Party US District Chapters will publicize the dates, times, and locations for Petition Signature drives. Once this movement connects with the People, they will find the locations and go there to sign up.  The Petition stations will be set-up (like a Girl Scout cookie stand) public places that do not require a fee to be paid, such as in front of grocery stores, public libraries, post offices, Home Depot (where I worked part and full time over the last 7 years!), Lowes, public school parking lots, etc.

It will not be that difficult to collect even several thousand signatures for a USD House seat or statewide for Senate and President/VP seats in a well-organized and well-publicized manner in just a few weeks. 

If We build it – The People will come and sign!

 

Voter Registration and Personal ID Committee

This is where the Chapter’s volunteers can come to the aid of the Electoral process that is currently under attack by mostly Republican operatives working deviously to decrease voter turnout by making it harder for some of us to vote.  You have probably heard that in some states and/or counties the requirements for “proper id” is being tightened up.  There are plenty of examples on the web.  Check out “Rock the Vote” on the Internet.  

This public service effort is two-fold. First, the Chapters will verify the Voter Registration Cut-off Date in their state and publicize it. They can offer local people help with transportation to the voter registration office nearby. One of the best places is the Department of Motor Vehicles or whatever it is called in your state. It is quick and has a separate line!!

Second, many thousands of citizens are registered, but do not have a current ID and again need transport to obtain such.  That effort can go on right up until the day before the November 6, National Election and would allow many more People to vote that those that are playing their anti-Democratic games are deviously trying to exclude.  Take that! 

Responsibilities of AP Party USD Chapter #01 in Each State

I would strongly suggest for consistency that wherever US District #1 is located in every state, that it be responsible for any statewide administrative coordination tasks as the AP Party grows and matures. US District #1 is not always on the same area as the state capital which is just fine. If that group votes and does not wish to accept those responsibilities it would automatically default to US District #2, and so on.  

Initially, that Chapter in each state would be tasked with coordinating the selection of any US Senator candidate from the Chapter pool across the state. They would coordinate the required statewide petition drives for Senator, for President/VP, and any Recall Drives that are initiated in 2012.  

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That is all on the AP Party US District Chapter Process for now.  Given committed volunteers all of the above can happen this year and with historic results.  Best of luck out there!

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 2 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 2 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 8 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Independent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

8        How does someone qualify themself as a potential AP Party candidate for US House or the US Senate from their US District or state?   

In response to Number 8 of 9,

For Your Consideration

First a Little Political Background for Rookies!

To begin with you must acknowledge certain realities going into what will be a very challenging, yet rewarding campaign process.  This is a unique opportunity to serve and help our country rebuild its economic and social structure under the AP Party citizen-oriented, solution-based, political platform.

Here are just a couple of items to frame the Big Picture of what the AP Party candidates must be ready to deal with. And I do mean deal with for the Common Good of our citizens before all others! 

First, of all and far more appropriately than when it was utilized in Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign the phrase, “It is the economy, stupid” would seem to be the Electorate’s bottom line again in 2012.

However, even though Congress and the White House are praising the rising New York Stock Exchange numbers that are not helping Main Street, claiming that unemployment is under 9% when it is really double that on Main Street, and are saying things are improving – the Masses of our citizens know the Plain Truth.  And, We the People are ready to explode!

Unlike in 1992, I would declare that the more applicable phrase to be used on Twitter to gain public response would be,

#NoItsTheCostOfLivingDummy.

We all know the cost-of-living is surging upward in the last couple years every time we go to the gas station or the grocery store.  However, most do not know it has a lot to do with Wall Street setting the Commodities Market up to be a speculator’s playground. 

For example, gasoline prices did not have to jump at the pump in early January because Iran threatened to block oil shipments thru the Strait of Hormuz that is the choke point between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the Indian Ocean. I mean seriously, folks.  If Iran were to even try that it would last about 30 minutes and they would be shall We say “forcibly corrected”. It is an example of international propaganda that is being treated as a real threat for political reasons both here and in Iran. And for profit in the Commodities Market! 

And most Americans do not know that it is possible for someone in the Iranian government (with prior knowledge) to have someone buy Oil Futures in the Commodities Market through certain Wall Street Investment Houses without public disclosure of who made purchase “prior to the blockade announcement” and make a lot of money!  And a rapid 25 cent/gallon price jump at over 150,000 gas stations nationwide makes the Oil Industry a lot of money, especially when they do not plan on bringing it back down when nothing actually happens.  Which of course they have not and Congress and the White House have said nothing.  This greedy manipulation must be stopped because the Masses on Main Street are running out of quarters! 

Second, a baseline point of political fact is that Independent parties, candidates, and grassroots movements routinely fail and fade away if the Electorate public sees them as only one (1) or two (2)  issues deep. They will have a following around issues like the environment, crime, immigration reform, corporate greed, and even God – but they are not viable in a national race. Like most of this year’s Republican primary candidates for President.

Further, even the extreme Social Values candidates can get massive attention in Iowa, then not in New Hampshire, then yes in South Carolina, and so on. However, they cannot carry the rest of the nation on such bedrock social issues BECAUSE those issues simply do not pay the monthly bills!

It is NOT just jobs because even those with jobs (often 2 of them) are being picked off one-by-one by the constant cost-of-living increases. The new Occupy Wall Street mantra of the 99% vs. the 1% is dead on target. The income disparity numbers We have all heard don’t lie and I will not bother repeating them here. 

The Republicans cry and say don’t call this class warfare. OK, but “a rose by any other name is still a rose”.  Call it what you will, but we are on the clear verge of a Second Great Depression and both political Parties and the White House are just ignoring the 800-pound gorilla in the room until it all falls apart!  Meantime, the “Greedy Bastards and Bitches” on Wall Street is sucking every last quarter out of We the People for fun, profit, and executive bonuses until it does. 

Those are a few of the harsh reasons, along with the absence of the problem solutions like those offered by the AP Party platform that at least 56% of the American public believes a viable Third political party is NEEDED. 

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And, I have not yet even talked about the extreme yet publicly workable method(s) that could be applied to our dying economy that are on an equal scale with Democracy crushing the long tradition of Tyranny in 1776.  Those are Proposals 22 thru 27 about the involuntary restructuring of key national industries.

As I wrote four (4) years ago in The Second Coming of Common Sense, even before the 2008/2009 Financial Crisis, the American colonist’s Revolution of 1776 dealt with the governmental edge of the double-edged Sword of Tyranny.  That war gave our national ancestors Democracy in Government. 

The 2012 Electoral Revolution We now have the Right and Obligation to conduct, will necessarily confront and deal with the other edge of that Sword of Tyranny, being Wealth and its abuse of Power over the Masses. Thus, our Revolution will deliver Democracy in Domestic Economics to the Masses, and our economy and society will be restored, if not resurrected! 

Granted not a small order to fill, but a confrontation that We the People will now decide to engage in – or – just to be content being lowly peasants.  Rather, We must be “Peasant Kings and Queens” – the bold American Citizens that our national ancestors fought to make us and that over 1,264,000 of our people have died for over these 236 years to keep us. 

And the man said,

We do these things not because they are Easy, We do them because they are Hard…

President, John F. Kennedy

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And this will not be easy,

but together We can absolutely accomplish it.   

So then I ask you as a potential Independent candidate

for a national leadership office.

 Are you up to the challenge of leading your fellow American citizens?

 If so, let’s give the People the real political campaign

they have longed for! 

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On the Ground for Your USD and State

First, do your basic research into the AP Party references listed in #1 above to be found on the Internet.  Begin by reading the parts of CS2 in whatever order may appeal to you, but from start to finish is recommended. 

Just for fun type “A J Wildman”  or “OurIAPP” into Google, hit Enter, to see what else might pop up!

Get a feel for An American Agenda and the rationale behind its 27 proposals. And any other subject matter research you would need to do to become comfortable about the party, its platform or me for that matter.  

Begin talking with those you know to inform them about the AP Party and platform, but not so much to promote or defend it at first – more to inform them about the points being raised.  Get their initial feedback and learn from that.  An important point is whenever possible to only talk with people one-on-one if you really want them to open up and share their true political perspectives. I learned that quickly on the front-end of several thousand such conversations.  Also, people will talk with you, if you talk with them. You are not selling them something or telling people what to believe, you are sharing a legislative perspective based on the Common Good with them.

Understand that people are worried and are looking for practical solutions at least, and realistic national leadership at best. 

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In the end (and as soon as possible) you must decide to commit yourself not to the AP Party, but to the Common Good of the other 310,000,000 American citizens that you will never, ever meet. That is how I started working on this project years ago. You must be all in to be a viable candidate in the public’s eyes. Not a fanatic or a zealot because the political environment is well-polluted with those types already. To be focused on the day-to-day problems that people are struggling with.  

You must freely and sincerely agree to support the American Peasant Party platform as detailed in both concepts and proposals in the 2008 book, The Second coming of Common Sense (CS2) and other issues added since then.  You may not agree with or even like all of them (neither do I), but you must carry the flag for your part of America. Frankly, I do not like the necessity of some of those solutions, but they will serve the Common Good of our citizens and that was my personal challenge to myself to define and present. And I have accomplished that. 

Again, while you may/will not like all parts of the platform that is the way political parties work.  New Democratic and Republican candidates do not fight their party about campaign planks.  They join and accept the overall platform and will over time try to change it if possible.  The very good thing is that you do not need to develop your own comprehensive platform.  Further, you may defer complaints on various platforms proposals that people may have back to me!  Challenge people to read the book over the next weeks or months. 

Remember you cannot sell people on even the most practical solution to any problem if they are not open to listening.  Do not waste your time and effort on such persons.  People do not change their mind on the spot. They go off and ponder things often subconsciously and may alter their opinion on the practicality of a proposal or may not. You can debate someone on a given issue, but do not argue with them.  It serves no good purpose.  Some people will only be there to argue about something. Again, wish them a nice day and move on. If they want argue with  someone they should talk the their current US Rep or Senators, if they can even find them!

Understand that in public problem-solving in a Democratic society of 310 million people such as ours, THERE ARE NO PERFECT SOLUTIONS!!!  Our society has been degraded over the last few decades by politicians reacting to the cries from the extreme Left and Right, and that publicly dysfunctional process will now come to an abrupt end! 

Are You One – Time to Become One of Many

In the beginning, February 2012 and forward you and others must decide to take personal, civil responsibility for creating an AP Party Chapter in your US District. There will be some initial guidance on that process in #8 below.

The members of the AP Party US District Chapter that you and others help create and build in your home area will determine in due time decide who is selected to run for their US House seat.  Each Chapter will also coordinate with the other Chapters across your state to identify and select the candidate to run for the US Senator seats, if any are up for election in 2012.  Democracy in action. 

The more you show your leadership in building the Chapter, knowledge of the platform, real compassion for your fellow Americans the greater will be your chances of being selected for the House and/or Senate candidacy.

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I have spent the last nine (9) years working up to this moment and never knew if this could really happen, but here it finally is!  I am more of a writer than a speaker, but I will do whatever necessary to promote the success of our Electoral Revolution.  I will do everything I possibly can to promote 468 to 535 of our people having the real opportunity to be voted into national office this coming November 6, 2012.

As you can see I have done a good bit already, but this effort cannot go forward and will not succeed unless people like you come forward NOW to be a candidate and/or an active local USD volunteer and member or simply to make a needed donation to help make the wheels go around easier. 

This is the essence of grassroots involvement in American style Democracy. The best form of people driven government in the world. 

United, We the People cannot be stopped.  Working together for the Common Good of our citizens there is no problem that We cannot solve.  

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) over these ten (10) days on the YouTube channel WildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walk on February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 3 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 3 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 7 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Independent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

7        How do the AP Party Chapter volunteers and/or a potential candidate determine the ballot requirements in their state to become an Independent, “non-party affiliated” candidate for the US the House of Representatives, the US Senate, President, and Vice President? 

In response to Number 7 of 9,

For Your Consideration

The Ballot Requirements Data Collection Process

In years past I have personally done this for all 50 states.  It is not difficult, but can be tedious and candidate filing errors are not forgiven by State Elections Offices. In “most” cases, I have found the staff in those offices to be pleasant to work with and many are very helpful especially when treated with the respect they deserve. 

I have begun the process for Congress and the office of President for 2012 to refresh myself to the process and provide some current examples on the AP Party Blog site, OurIAPP.typepad.com. However, I expect the potential candidates and newly forming AP Party chapters across the country to do this detailed research as part of their initial organizing activities. In most cases it will take hours not days to have 90 to 100% to the requirements documented and verified. Not so bad. 

While there are 435 US Districts across 50 states there are only fifty (50) sets of requirements for House, Senate, and President.  For example, in the case of California with 53 US Districts the same set of requirements (forms, signature counts, filing dates, fees, if any, etc.) apply to all 53 House candidates for the House and with a unique set for the two (2) Senators, and a final set for President and Vice President. And pretty much goes without saying that the ballot requirements are a little different for all 50 states! 

I did tell you this was a short course on how We make our 2012 Electoral Revolution happen.  A true Second American Revolution in the making and this is our cookbook to be used in towns and cities across the nation!

 

The Ballot Qualifying Requirements Gathering Process

This is an example of the Requirement gathering process. The following procedure briefly presents the types of data to be gathered from each state to be on the November 6, 2012 National ballot or to be qualified as an “official” Write-in candidate on that day.  This is what each potential candidate and AP Party USD Chapter will need to do to document and verify.  Then they can begin coordinating the Petition drives for each US District Representative, statewide for Senator, and President/VP.

This scenario will show the data types, but not all the details about each of them.  Most really are obvious and questions will be resolved while the AP Party chapters are doing the appropriate research. 

So, let us begin.  

• Get on the Internet and go to Google.
• Enter, SOS (for Secretary of State), then your given state’s name, e.g., Wisconsin., and finally the word, elections i.e., SOS Wisconsin elections and press Enter.  And the fun begins!   
• Within the list presented from Google, you will find that most states have an Elections Office under the SOS, while some will have a separate Elections Division or Board of Elections. Document their phone and fax number (s) and Internet site names. 
• Take a little time to review their website and then give them a call. 
• Tell them you are researching the 2012 Ballot Requirements Independent, non-party affiliated candidates for US House, US Senate, and President/VP. Clarify that you are not researching state level candidates.
• Get connected to the right point of contact person(s).  Document their name(s) and direct number if possible and always be respectful and nice to them!  
• Often they will help with initial data like dates and signature counts. Others will walk you through the website to show you where the forms and data are located. In any case you will need to do some digging. For someone that likes to do detail research, of which I frankly am not one, this will be easy going in most cases.

The Type of Petition Data to Document

Number of US Districts – some of these are changing due to the Census so make sure of your USD number and verify the total count for your state.

Candidate Intent Form(s) – each office i.e., House, Senate, President (HSP) may or may not have forms to be filed before petitions are started. There may also be a filing fee, but not usually.  In some cases neither are due until the petitions are filed. 

Petition Forms – there is normally a state provided and unique Petition Forms that you can download.  However, some states will require that you draft one and send it to them for acceptance which they will turn around quickly.  In either case, they must be filled-in correctly by each petition signer.  People need to print legibly so have them take their time.

Number of Signatures Required – in a few states depending on the HSP office a petition may be waived and a flat fee is paid.  Normally a specific minimum number of valid voter signatures are stated, e.g., for Michigan:

• 3,000 petition signatures for each of the 15 US Districts.
• 30,000 statewide for a US Senate seat, if any are running this year.
• 30,000 statewide total for the Office of the President that also covers the Vice President.

However, in some states for the US District seats the counts will vary based upon voting counts from the prior election and the SOS Elections office will provide those separate counts.

Always plan a collect at least ten percent (10%) more signatures than required because when the petitions are verified some will always be rejected for various reasons. 

Filings Fee(s) – As stated, there may also be a filing fee(s), but not usually.  If so, it is normally very low and not due until the petitions are filed. 

Petition Start and End Dates – Many states have a specific Start and End Date window for the collection of Petition signatures. Often the Start Date is open, but the End Date is always fixed.

There is data unique to the Office of President that I will review in a moment, but first a few items related to HSP Write-In situations.  This will apply when the filing date is missed for whatever reason such as Nevada that closes their House and Senate filings very early on February 9, 2012.

The following should be documented as a practical backup plan. 

Is Write-In an Option – Verify this for each HSP office in the state. It should be, but isn’t always because the 2-Party’s do like to restrict the process. 

If it is not allowed in your state, it will be a very interesting item for the Press and residents of the state to be informed about! 

Write-in Notification Form(s) to be Filed and by What Date – self-explanatory except in some states it is at the state level and in others at the county/parish, or voting precinct level.  Often the name format(s) for the candidate must be filed in order to be counted.  It is a bit tedious at times.

Data for the Offices of the President and Vice President

Number of Electors and Filing Documents and Dates – This is very serious data. This is a general write-up on the types of data and coordination you will need for your state. Most follow the similar data requirements, but a few can get a little complicated.  The good thing is that the statewide network of AP Party Chapters will be working together to make it happen.

The Number of Electors – it is usually equal to the number of USDs for the state.  They will be your candidate’s and states official representatives to the Electoral College after the November 6, 2012 National Election to confirm the election results! Again, these are very serious positions and responsibilities. Your Electors could actually help certify the National Election results! 

For the AP Party these Electors will selected, one (1) from each of the respective 435 AP Party USD Chapters. 

Elector Filing Forms and Dates – there are official download forms to be completed, clearly signed, and filed by a specific date with the SOS Office for each Elector.  Electors will be sworn often in writing to vote in the Electoral College for the AP Party candidate should they win their race.

Is Vice President’s Name Required on Petition? – in most states this is not a requirement, but again the 2-Party’s keep adding things like this to make to more difficult. In some cases, a VP name must be there, but it may also be changed before Election Day. Document this very carefully.  What fun?  In case you were wondering I prefer to find a woman as my VP running mate and will be seeking suggestions for the office.

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That wraps up the walk through of this process.  Remember, “the devil is in the details” and the 2-Partys love to play with the rules. 

Overall, the knowledge gained from this overview will make the data collection and verification process flow much easier in each AP Party USD Chapter. There will be more on the AP Party USD Chapter functions and responsibilities in #8 below. 

Again the vast majority of the state Elections offices are staffed with pleasant and helpful people.  However, filings must be done correctly and on time or they will be properly rejected! They take no prisoners.  Good luck out there!  

 

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) these ten (10) days on the YouTube channel WildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walk on February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 4 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 4 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 6 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Independent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

6        What are the official Federal eligibility requirements to be a candidate for the US House of Representatives and the US Senate?

In response to Number 6 of 9,

For Your Consideration

These are Federal requirements for offices in the House and Senate. Please refer to the official websites of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate for additional background.  

US House of Representative

Must be a citizen of the United States for at least 7 years.

Must be at least 25 years of age.

Must be a resident of the state when elected.

US Senator

Must be a citizen of the United States for at least 9 years.

Must be at least 30 years of age.

Must be a resident of the state when elected.

Please note that some states have added a specific number of years a candidate must be a resident of the given state in order to qualify. 

 

Next regarding Congressional compensation just in case you were wondering:

The current salary (2011) for rank-and-file – 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate is $174,000 per year.  Thus, the base annual salary expense to the taxpayers of the US Congress equals $93,090,000.

House Leadership

Speaker of the House - $223,500

Majority Leader - $193,400
Minority Leader - $193,400

 

Senate Leadership

Majority Party Leader - $193,400
Minority Party Leader - $193,400

Plus, for Congress there is a generous “benefits and retirement” package and a separate budget to run your office. 

There is also of course the prestige of being a member of the US Congress, having a private office in or next door to the Capitol building, an office in your home state with staff, and your own Washington, DC staff on-call 24x7. 

You may consider that some of the same people that volunteer help with your campaign and/or work in your US District AP Party Chapter would eventually become part of your paid Congressional staff in DC and your home state.

Are you interested? 

 

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) over these ten (10) days on the YouTube channel WildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walk on February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 5 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 5 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 5 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Independent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

5        Is there adequate time between now (early February 2012) and the November 6, 2012 National Election to identify and qualify up to 468 Independents under the AP Party platform as challengers to the incumbent members of US Congress?

In response to Number 5 of 9,

For Your Consideration

While it would be nice to have more time, Yes, there is adequate time for us to succeed by simply beating the somewhat rigged 2-Party Political System at its own game. IF, people like you and those you know, love, and otherwise care about decide to make it happen.  And make it happen for your own good!

The political fact is that both the Republican and Democratic Parties do not want you to know such a thing can be done.  And they diligently work to make it a little harder with each passing election at the state level by playing with the rules. 

A Simple Tactic

The campaign tactic that I devised will allow us to present a viable, Third party candidates to the American Electorate without formally establishing the AP Party until after the November 2012 National Election, which is fully legal.  Further, We will transform the 2012 Presidential and Congressional campaign rapidly into an economic and social issues driven event. Which is exactly what is needed and what both Parties and Obama are working to avoid! 

AP Party candidates will run within each state as “non-party affiliated”, Independent candidates against all 435 members US House of Representatives and the 33 US Senators running for re-election this November.  This approach is an end–around of the current political system that is rigged to make it administratively difficult to form new political parties in a timely manner. The people and legal overhead of establishing a new party’s presence in all 50 states to run candidates prevents must people from even trying – often because they start too late in the typical election cycle to accomplish the paperwork.  That is one way the 2-Party Political System “protects” itself from Third parties intruders! 

However, this election cycle We the People will show them We are smarter than they give us credit for.  This knowledge is part of the benefit of my official, yet amateur campaign for President back in 2003/2004.  It made me study the system and learn about its guidelines in a way you may only get from being involved the game, even if only partially.

Thus, we will enjoy the political benefit of a Third Party presence without the paperwork. Our candidates will be true Independents, will be commonly joined by a publicly acceptable, problem-solving platform, and lead by viable Independent Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. This is history in the making and they cannot stop us, if We determine to make it happen! 

As will be further explained in #8 below, AP Party candidates across all 50 states and the Presidential and VP candidates will aggressively support and promote each other.  It is the difference between a regular campaign and a movement. There will be more unity than the Dems and Repubs display and the electorate will appreciate the difference. 

We will have An American Agenda, the AP Party citizen-oriented platform to run under to provide the electorate with a practical and consistent message. Frankly a more realistic and Common Good driven platform for the American Electorate than either Repubs or the Dems currently or have ever had to offer.

If, independent thinking people like you across this country join in this grassroots effort the AP Party driven Electoral Revolution can spread as fast as the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Consider that on January 19^th that the worldwide grassroots movement was only four (4) months old!  Yes, it is worldwide.  Also note that OWS still does not have a particular agenda or any public leadership.  Our movement has both of those essential public credibility requirements met from the start!

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This is the Ballot Qualifying Flow

 These are the procedures to be followed by the AP Party Chapters to qualify to 535 of our Independent candidates for election this November.

Regarding the 468 Congressional incumbent members routinely up for re-election in 2012:

• For a given state’s US Representative, Senator, President and Vice President we will file the proper forms, gather the required petition signatures, and/or pay the fee required to be placed on the official ballot for the November 6, 2012 National Election. The gathering of those requirements is addressed in #6 below. 

• Should that regular filing date be missed for whatever reason, We will then submit the proper forms in order to be a Write-In candidate for the office in question.  The gathering of those requirements is also addressed in #6 below. 

• Granted there will certainly be some number of states that our candidates cannot be qualified to vote for, but in the vast majority of states they will be. 

Thus, We have the potential of reaching a key AP Party Electoral Goal of capturing the numerical majority of 218 seats the House or even better 2/3 majority of 292. It would rock the Halls of the Capitol Dome.

In the Senate with only 33 seats up for re-election the more of those We capture the better. That is another reason why the Recall drives against the other 67 Senators not running this year is key. The Electoral Goal being to capture a numerical majority over the number of Democrats or Republicans and about 40 would probably do the trick.

The legislative Power in Congress is in having the most seats in the House or Senate because the “majority party” appoint the Chairperson to all congressional committees which is where the Power really exists.  They also appoint the Speaker of the House of Representatives! Give the Power to the People. 

A Good “Bad Example”

Not really wanting to pick on the good people of Nevada, but their state government, the following is a classic example of such political Party games.

Nevada closes their House and Senate filing the earliest allowing the petition process to run from January 2^nd thru only February 9^th in 2012. The End Date for submitting petitions is months ahead of most states for House and Senate.  On top of that, Nevada also does not allow a Write-In option for House and Senate offices. A very closed to competition example don’t you think? 

I wonder if long serving Nevada Senator Harry Reed had anything to do with that?  The good citizens of Nevada need to be informed about this.

This is the AP Party Revolutionary – The Recall Campaign Flow

With regard to the 67 US Senators that are not routinely up for re-election until 2014 or 2016, We have an frustrated American Electorate surprise for them that is detailed in Proposal 28 on the AP Party Blog site. For now here is now it would work: 

• This too will be a historic civil action against our elected government, made possible by our citizen Rights as assigned under the US Constitution. 

• One (1) and in some case two (2) US Senators from all 50 states fall into the category of not routinely being up for re-election this year.

• Every state is different in this process and some have made it intentionally difficult due to pressure from the 2-Parties.  US Representatives and Senators protecting their jobs from frustrated constituents. Political games.  

• The AP Party Chapters in all 50 states will research and publish the technical criteria for the 2012 Recall Drive against those 67 US Senators.  They will need a some good legal volunteers to sort it out in some states. A lively public debate will undoubtedly occur after that publication. 

• Each state’s AP Party will coordinate an official Recall process with the public goal of forcing as many of those 67 incumbent Senators to stand for re-election this November 6^th as possible. The AP Party goal being to achieve a majority of 51 Independent seats in the Senate, at least. 

• The proper paperwork will be filed, any fees collected and paid, and the required petition signatures gathered to conduct the Recall action against those 67 US Senators.

Consider that the citizens in Great State of Wisconsin successfully accomplished a historic Recall petition gathering in January 2012 collecting approximately 1,000,000,000 signatures against their unpopular governor.  They provide the rest of the states with a bold example of civil action that can be followed to the same successful end. 

We the People, can do this my fellow Americans and our children and grandchildren will be proud of us. 

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Note added on February 24: additional research has indicated that only 18 of the 50 states have legislation "allowing" for the possible Recall of Senators and/or Representatives. Thus, the process will unfortunately not be against all 67 other Senators in 2012.  State by state research into those 18 will determine how many of the 67 We will be able to initiate a recall against in 2012.  However, the line will be drawn and all 67 Senators will be aware We are after their offices and will not stop until they are replaced.  We will work toward legislation in the other 32 states to create that Recall process. That legisaltion will take a few years to implement.  AJW 

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) each of these ten (10) days on the YouTube channel WildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walk on February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 6 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

 ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 6 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 4 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:                                           

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Independent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

4        What is the public Purpose and Mission of the politically Independent American Peasant Party and how does it approach today’s socially sensitive issues? 

In response to Number 4 of 9,

For Your Consideration

Purpose

The Democratic and citizen-oriented Purpose of the American Peasant Party (APP) is to provide the American Electorate with a viable and politically Independent third party option.  A national political party purely dedicated to the Common Good of our citizens. 

Mission

A patriotic Mission to provide our nation with social, economic, and environmental legislative leadership that is Responsible to the Common Good of the citizens of America before and above all other people, groups, industries, and nations.  It is America and Americans first, and without apology to any group, industry or nation.  All publicly irresponsible lobbyists beware, because you have hereby been warned. 

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First of all the AP Party is not at all like the pandering and publicly dysfunctional Republican and Democratic political parties. 

The AP Party philosophy and its platform information are detailed on OurIApp.typepad.com.

As stated previously, when writing the Second Coming of Common Sense (CS2) and developing the 27 problem solving proposals in An American Agenda my objective was to satisfy at least 60% of our fellow citizens. That implies addressing the concerns and needs of the Masses. Not to be pulled away from practical and prudent public solutions to “try” and satisfy a too loud, self-serving minority on either the Republican Right or the Democratic Left.  Those who seem never to be satisfied! 

That is why the AP Party platform will find favor with at least “the 60%”!  The platform contains solutions that the Left will like and dislike, as well as solutions the Right will like and dislike.  The Independents and Moderates will be the happiest of them all. 

One further piece of background, starting under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party decided to start playing to the “religious right”.  Not so much to ever get them what they wanted legislatively, but to play them (like a cheap violin to my observations).  Since then they cater to that group whenever they are looking for campaign donations and votes. Just think of the political circus that went on in the Iowa caucus and South Carolina primary.  They pandered to them about God, abortion – gay and lesbian issues to get $$ and votes, but avoided talking at all about serious public problems like those in #2.  Then after the primaries and general elections the Republicans just go back to doing whatever they want until the next fund raiser. They would be just as publicly dysfunctional in office as they are on the campaign trail. 

Personally, I have always thought it odd that Republicans claimed God for their party as though Democrats do not go to church.  Anyway if God were to miraculously show up at the polls one day to vote, He of course would be looking for the Independent candidates…

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How does the AP Party Platform address some of the more politically sensitive social issues? 

Buckle your seat belts! It is time for a national reality check. 

This is another decision moment for any potential AP Party candidate.  Will you be in or out?  Of course each of us has the Right to their personal position on political issues, especially the short list of public “hot buttons” that the Republicans as well as Democrats at times exploit for political reasons. If you are one of those that is hard Right or Left on any of these issues to the point where everything else in a party’s platform is meaningless, then as I said at the top please do us both a favor and go do something else!  That said…

 Since the AP Party platform basically flows from my Independent, political sensibilities I will be making statements and writing on such issues.  Be certain that our nation’s economic and social problems will not be fixed with such continued political pandering.  This party will be respectful of all groups, but is driven by what is viewed as best for the Common Good of all citizens.  Each of us will be challenged to come to terms with Civil Responsibility across the board.  Supporting what is best for restructuring our broken economic system and to make our neighborhoods safe and happy places for our citizens is first priority (Yes happy! You might remember Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness). 

 And I do mean American Citizens!   All others get in line and not all those will be allowed to remain.  Go read CS2 it covers many of these issues. Now my thoughts on the following “Social Values” issues which in effect are the AP Party position and will be promoted as such. 

 

God.   Whomever someone may believe God is will be honored as their choice. I personally am a Christian and pray to God some on most days, and that is all you will hear me say about “my faith”. Except I believe in saying, Merry Christmas!

 Guns.  In short the NRA will mostly love me.  In the book CS2 I wrote, “Guns do not kill people. People exercising their freewill on someone else kill people”.  As Proposal #10 – Zero Tolerance for Free-Will Crime by All People describes, We the People will deal harshly and swiftly with such criminals.  Everything else work itself out from there. 

 Abortion. Will be controlled by public agreement – never banned, and not used for birth control or gender selection. The AP Party will actively promote practical, but woman-friendly restrictions on 2^nd and 3^rd trimester abortions.  It will be allowed in the cases of rape and incest, as well as if the Mother’s life is at risk regardless of the trimester. She will decide!  

 Since prevention is the key to avoiding this entire decision, We will work intelligently to prevent unwanted pregnancies and thus avoid women needing to even make a hard life decision, for no matter what they choose it will in some way be with them the rest of their life.

 I will add that a person’s position on abortion is not always driven by their church’s dictate. I know devote atheist that are both for and very much against it. In the end, if someone opposes it for religious reasons fine, just hold the members of their church to that standard and hopefully they won’t have one!

 From a hard global perspective, there are now 7 billion people on this Earth and countless numbers die daily of disease, starvation, and lack of water. We cannot allow the planet to see 8 billion and God will not be offended. 

 Now one of my related hot buttons.  Consider that every time the Republicans get the White House they cut foreign aid relating to birth control and family planning to please their religious campaign donors.  Thus, more children in 3^rd world countries are born into terrible conditions and women that are raped do not at least have access to morning-after pills. Grimly, some of those same children eventually wind up on cable infomercials asking viewers for money to help take care of them. I won’t comment any more of that right now, but it is sick all the way around. 

 Gay and Lesbian Rights.  This is the hard social issue of our day and the Republican’s most favorite thing for generating public turmoil and raising campaign funds – especially now around the marriage issue. That is the truth whether you like it or not and people need to wake-up to that fact!

 Frankly, I am not here to be anybody’s friend, I am here to be everybody’s leader and resolve the economic and social problems of our citizens. I do not really like having to address this, but it goes with the territory.  Thus, let me rant! 

 If for example someone is against same-sex marriage for non-religious reasons fine, that is their freewill opinion on the issue.  Again, if they oppose it for religious reasons fine, hold the members of your church to that standard, but leave everybody else alone to make their own freewill choices. It is fully acknowledged that the entire issue does disturb and disgust many people, but it does not affect their day-to-day life.  We all know heterosexual couples that should have never been married and those that are terrible parents. Does this not fall under “judge not and you will not be judged”.  God will not strike them or their church down for letting people marry whomever they want to. 

 Further, the “position statement” of the hard-Right of the church that an adolescent decides to be gay or lesbian is Beyond Sense (BS).  Did anyone in the ‘church’ publicly ask Dick Cheney’s or Dick Gephardt’s lesbian daughters what age they made that decision – I guess not!  But, when the news “came out” it sure changed good old Dad’s and Mom’s public rhetoric around the issue didn’t it. 

 Such “religious or personal opinions” have nothing to do with the ridiculous rise in the cost-of-living, the destruction of the world’s environment by oil and coal, crime in the streets, the ridiculous War on Drugs or 1.6 million homeless American children.

 But it sure is a great way for worthless politicians to distract the Press from real issues, raise donations for the Republican Party and candidates, get votes, and sadly at times it is even used to get money in offering plates…   Next.

 

Immigration Control.  Back in 1986, the Republican President Ronald Reagan promoted and signed the last citizenship Amnesty Act to allow some 1.5 million illegals (mostly, but not all Latino) to obtain American citizenship – although it turned into well over 3 million, many with false papers.  And he stated the government would then get tough on immigration and employers that dared to hire illegal workers in the future – while he was winking at the business community.

 Some 26 years later We the People are still waiting for the get tough and now some in the government want yet another Amnesty for over 11 million international, freewill felons. And let me be very clear that while the vast majority are from somewhere south of the US/Mexico border, people from all over the world have arrived here since 1986 with one way tickets and never intended to leave. They are hiding behind that Latino-based immigration debate.

 This is political pandering by both Parties and is Beyond Sense (BS).  The Liberal Left wants everybody to move here regardless of the cost and harm their uncontrolled invasion has already done to American society.   The Conservative Right wants cheap labor and people to fill their rental units!

 Such amnesty cannot be allowed and the invasion must end.  For one thing you read my comments above about the out-of-control world population growth. There is an extended piece on this topic under Proposal #5 – American Population Management.  Each country must be responsible for their citizens and not send them without proper invitation to another to be burdened with. 

 Under Proposal #5, America will finally have a National Id System (like even most third world countries have) and We will sort everyone out!  All immigration should be frozen for a few years given the current mess and our unemployment crisis.  Many of the Illegal Occupants (IOs) will go home. The subset of those that are allowed to stay and their offspring will be forever in a special resident status and will never be entitled to vote!  We will not cheapen our American citizenship Right to vote by giving it those that should not be here in the first place.  And that regardless of Liberal polls is the sentiment of the vast majority of We the People.

 The Dream Act is a nice Liberal act, but just another side door trick to help IOs.  Enough said.

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) each of these ten (10) days on the YouTube channel WildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walk on February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 7 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

 

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 7 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 3 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Indepedent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

 

3        Provide an informative glimpse into many of the 27 Proposals from the book, The Second Coming of Common Sense (CS2) that form the initial platform of the AP Party.  After having reading about the 27 platform proposals under #3 you could probably think of others you could add to this list.

In response to Number 3 of 9,

For Your Consideration

 An American Agenda in Brief

Now for some perspective on many of the 27 proposals of the AP Party platform and show how it is designed to help our people by solving our Common Problems. Some points will reference the platform 27 proposals in An American Agenda from the book CS2.   Those that do not are the types of proposals that we will add during the campaign (and after we win the elections!). 

 

Proposal#/Title/Description	Approach/Primary Public Benefits
Federal Level Reform
1  Presidential and U.S. Representative Term Amendments	Changing the President to a single 6-year term, and the US House from 2 to 4-year terms.  The new terms of office will require the 27th and 28th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
2  Voting Day Reform – Access to the Polls	First, the traditional first Tuesday voting date in November will be immediately and permanently moved to the first Saturday in November. Secondly, synchronizing the opening and closing of all polling places to the same 12 hour period. NO amendments required. Not rocket science!
3  Eligible Voter Reform	We need to confront the issue that those citizens convicted of felonies, served their court appointed punishment, and been released are not allowed to vote in national elections often for the rest of their life, to say nothing about state and local levels which is worse. This is not healing or building respect for government. The People are fighting to reverse such law across the country.   This proposal will allow all such people to vote in Federal elections.    Granted some of these people committed terrible crimes, but our worthless Justice System made the mistake of not putting them to death as they likely deserved. Going forward under Proposal #10, We will put an end to that fault in the Judicial System.
4  Real Campaign Finance Reform	Real campaign finance reform is about the struggle to control the excessive and imbalanced influence of the Special Interest money that is pouring into national elections.  The same can be said for the state election process, as well.  In a version of the Merriam-Webster International Dictionary the word ‘bribe’ is defined as follows:  a price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to pervert  the judgment or corrupt the conduct esp. of a person in a position of trust (as a public official).   The U.S. Supreme Court ruled before 2008 in opposition to funding controls or limits to big campaign donors. They can do so anonymously also!  It was very Republican of them.  It could be observed as a ruling that honored “The Law” and completely ignored the Democratic Reason and common sense.  I say the control and prevention of the abuse of political Power by the Few over the Many is exactly what the US Constitution is all about.  Our grassroots movement to replace Congress will be our “final answer” to campaign finance reform and term limits!
National Programs
5  American Population Management (APM)	The Population Issue – The Practical Place to Start this Grand National Fix “We the People will decide who is allowed to play in our sandbox” The over-riding problem is that the world is not getting over populated it is already over-populated.  And we have too many illegals in this country.  In general and with the coming Depression we require the following to get our national people inventory under OUR control.  Obviously, we currently do not have a functioning Immigration Control Program (ICP).  The out of control IO problem has been allowed to grow for two (2) decades since 1986 when under President Ronald Reagan’s administration the last “half-baked” false-attempt was made to resolve and finally control the IO problems of the 1980’s.  It included a provision for “only” a projected 1.5 million IOs to obtain citizenship. In the end however, anywhere from 3 to 5 million IOs snuck in the door with the illegal documentation they could buy for $50 to $100 per set.  A unique National ID System like almost every nation is the world has had for years. All nations must be responsible for their own citizens and not dump them on other countries. Our borders are violated more than any other nation. And our government has encouraged it especially with Mexico & C&s America – and denied it since 1986. 3 groups = citizens, Other Legal Occupants (OLO), Illegal Occupants(IOs). No amnesty for illegals. All immigration needs to be frozen for a few years. Our flat-lined economy and 15 to 20 million un-employed citizens are 2 more reasons why the IOs need to be purged over the next couple years. And no more in. Freeze all non-citizen employment in taxpayer funded jobs local, state, and federal levels. Citizen preference is all hiring.  Relocation assistance supplied if required.  The governments of CSA countries promote the flow north to America and greedily wait for funds to be transferred back.  Transfers made oh so easy by our very cooperative, well-lobbied, fee-charging banks. More on them later.   And then there is Mexico… that more than any other country needs to be reminded that the sign at the base of the Statue of Liberty does not read,   “Send me your excess population that you do not care to deal with”
6  English as First and Only Language	Straightforward.  English finally declared official national language.  Taxpayer dollars will not be used to support any other language such as Spanish.  People must not expect to come here and have their native language catered to.
7  The U.S. Re-Employment System	A closed-end system to improve the American labor environment.  Now 3 employment Sectors with the resource sector introduced.  Evaluate education, vocation, and social skills.  Relocation as economy demands utilizing the new Housing Inventory System.  Compliments the American Population Management proposal.  Overall: •     Providing a viable income and legal employment for all Americans. •     American citizens, native born and naturalized, must be employed before any legal visitor/occupant (i.e., Permanent Resident Aliens).  •     Controlling legal immigration and the legal employment of any non-citizens, including what jobs they cannot have. •     Minimizing the costs of unemployment and related programs against our taxes. •     Minimizing the costs of public welfare and related programs against our taxes. •     Re-locating people as needed across the country to respond to seasonal demands, as well as worker resource shortfalls in various areas of the country as the economy evolves over the years.   •     Stopping illegal immigration and the future employment of IOs.   And finally, We in America just as every other nation has the Sovereign Right to say,   “America does not owe anyone born outside this country a job or any social services, let alone entry into nor the right to remain inside our borders.”
8  National Drug Reform	The second failed Prohibition will be ended.  Marijuana will be fully legalized and decriminalized. No hard drugs will be legalized.
9  Re-Considering the Military Draft – Saving Our Youth	To reinstitute some form of mandatory military Training post high school. To have a system set-up with which to finish the schooling of all those that drop out of high school. Partly to build a military preparedness, but not for foreign occupation.
10  Zero Tolerance for Free-Will Crime by All People	There are many important parts to this proposal, but the lead legislation involves a major change to required punishment for certain freewill crimes of physical assault. In particular, the pre-meditated crimes of murder, rape, and pedophilia will no longer be tolerated. In brief, if a person is convicted in a standard court of law to be “Obvious Guilty” of any of those crimes they will be subject to the Death Penalty by lethal injection ninety (90) days later. The Masses are in favor of such punishment for certain crimes.
11  The Family Support Administration	A comprehensive review and efficient consolidation of all social programs providing support to citizens and families using taxpayer funds.
12  Family Basic Asset Protection	A fixed address for all citizens ; a home resulting from The Adjustment program.
13  American Owned Business Preference Policy	The SBA will focus on promoting US Citizens in small business start-ups.
Local Community Programs
14  Local Pride and Accountability	Promoting both youth and adults to become more involved with their neighborhood, community, and US District.
15  Education – The “Final Answer” for Many Students and Adults	Implementation of a nothing less than miraculous corrective learning program in all public and parochial schools. Permanently improves Auditory and Visual memory deficit. No longer a learning disability – a learning weakness that can be corrected.
16  Physical Fitness for Our Children	Implementation of the well-known Palate exercise program in all public and parochial schools. Low cost with tremendous benefits to students and short and long term Health Care costs.
17  Community Service Training	Things such as emergency services training to make communities better prepared for storms, etc.
American Industry Restructuring (AIR) Proposals
New and Renewal Industries
18  Re-Cycling as a Major Industry	Major Recycling industry in all 435 US Districts. Materials then used for domestic manufacturing – metal, paper, plastics
19  Hemp Industry – The Truth for a Change	Major domestic farm crop to make paper, heating oil, plastics, diesel fuel.
20  Domestic Cannabis Industry	A small business industry that will be taxed and quality control will be required.
21  Take Back Industries (TBIs) – Domestic Manufacturing and IGEs	Start non-profit manufacturing of underwear and light bulbs. Products that we will get the raw materials for from Proposal #18 Recycling as a major industry.
Existing Industries
22  Health Care Insurance for ALL Americans	See Appendix A that is a copy of Proposal #22 – Health Insurance for ALL Americans.  It presents the end of For-profit Health Care against the model I developed for the involuntary restructuring of certain key national infrastructure industries.  Proposals 23 thru 27 suggest the restructuring of other industries, but Medical Insurance is the place to start with the public.
23  The Pharmaceutical Industry
24  The Tobacco (Nailing the Most Deadly Drug) Industry
25  The Oil Industry
26  The Banking and Credit Card Industries
27  The Defense (Military Industrial Complex) Industry
2011 Proposals
28  US Congress Recall	2012 Recall of the 67 US Senators that are not up for re-election in 2012.  Forcing the all 535 members of the US Congress the stand for re-election.
29  American Wealth Decentralization Model – The Second American Revolution	Implement “The Adjustment” – The American Decentralization of Wealth Program.  The first American Revolution was against the selfish power of monarchy in government; once it was won the other things that the colonists had demanded in the Dec of Independence. Our Second American Revolution must confront and defeat the selfish abuse of the wealthy and politically powerful in Wall Street and Big Industry that blatantly control both Parties in both Houses of the US Congress.  The AP Party’s platform is comprised of 27 proposals designed to save and improve the lives of our citizens and/or make far better use of taxpayer dollars. OK. Buckle your seat belts and review this proposal brief from ouriapp.typepad.com Total US personal wealth $55 Trillion; the wealthy have at least $35T leaving us Peasants $20T at most. A one-time decentralization of wealth "The Adjustment" of $15T from their $35T. Used to pay off ALL residential mortgages $12T, ALL student loans $1T, and ALL credit card debt $1T, leaving $1T for cleanup; and every American citizen would have a fixed address/residence; all that money would be back to the banks & investors to put into the economy (theoretically). We Peasants would be consumers again and then we could take a hard look at the national debt. See the blog for more detail. Founder of the American Peasant Party. This proposal has been added to and will be detailed later. It will address paying off at least ½ of the Federal Debt of $15 Trillion!

 

For all the concepts and details on An American Agenda contained in the book, The Second Coming of Common Sense please reference several of the selcetions on the AP Party website OurIAPP.typepad.com. You can download a free PDF of the 718-page book there and order a soft-cover or eBook copy.  True Independent, citizen-oriented problem solving concepts and proposals. 

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) each of these ten (10) days on the YouTube channel WildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walk on February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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NoItstheCostOfLivingDummy – Day 9 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

To get the economic and social reform discussion started I think it prudent to recall an earlier posting on this blog from September 15, 2011 titled,   

We Can Handle the Truth - Preparing for Our Second Great Depression

“The Inevitability of Our Second Great Depression (D2)”

To Promote Public Awareness and Preparation

 

Use the link below to review the posting that details the nation's overall economic direction.  

  The Coming Second Great Depression

 

The posting has 2 videos and several documents overviewing the nation's economy and Wall Street abuses in the Commodites Market.  

Speaking of Wall Street Commodites Market abuse -- that is what is going is now going on with the recent run-up in gasoline prices for no good reason.  There will be more on that soon. 

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) each of these ten (10) days on the YouTube channelWildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walkon February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 8 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 8 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

 Question 2 of 9

 Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Indepedent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves. 

2  Who among our fellow citizens and some of the public interest groups that would likely support the aggressive, yet publicly practical solutions contained in the AP Party platform and so its candidates for national offices? 

 In response to Number 2 of 9,

For Your Consideration

Think of the following data as some talking points with those you know, those you meet at Chapter meetings, and finally during the campaign later this year.

One of the AP Party campaign slogans will be,

 “Our Congress will solve – what their Congress will not”

First, We will take a look at the types of people that would appreciate the AP Party’s candidates and the platform they represent. 

Your initial base is always your Family and Friends – your immediate human network in your physical community and workplaces – those that often share your concerns and values.  These are the real people that will help build the AP Party Chapter in your USD and later will campaign for whoever is selected to run for office from your USD or state. And that could be you! 

Now add those in your extended Friends and Acquaintances network from e.g., the schools you attended, workplaces, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This extended community allows you to gain support and influence in other USD’s and other states for that matter.  This is how the AP Party National Network will grow organically just as the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement did in just a few months.  Consider that the worldwide OWS movement did not exist until September 19, 2011…

As you review this list of Human Statistics remember that We are so numb to all the numbers thrown at us all the time – millions of them and billions of those are just lifeless counts.  However, in many of these items consider that each one (1) is a person or a family comprised of one (1) or more real people – our fellow citizens. 

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Now let’s review a few of what I call the Human Statistics that should help connect the problem-solving proposals in the AP Party platform to various citizens and public interest groups. Some items will reference the platform proposal that address the subject issue in some way.  Those that do not are the types of problem areas that We will address during the campaign (and after we win the elections!). 

These items are presented in no particular order accept for the first two (2) bullets issues that to me best speak to the daily human failures of elected government at all levels.

• There are 1,600,000 homeless American children and then add their parents of course.  That while 10 million homes sit abandoned and empty. There can be no greater disgrace and all the Congress did was hold a few meetings after the 2010 Census released to pander to the Press.

We will implement a radical yet economically and socially renewing program that guarantees all citizens a fixed address and path to home ownership.  We will rapidly pass legislation to insure the American Dream of home ownership for our citizens.  This is a clarification and expansion of Proposal #12 – Family Basic Asset Protection.

• Over the last decade, of those reported, some 750,000 American women were pre-meditatedly raped. I am not talking here about date-rape.  And just what are the “great women” in both houses of Congress even trying to do to stop this atrocity – absolutely nothing!  Under Proposal #10 – Zero Tolerance for Free-Will Crime by All People, the law will be hardened and such offenders will have a near term meeting (90 days) with a lethal injection as a state’s rights over-riding federal law.  This crime along with the two (2) others mentioned under this item are the first crimes addressed under this new law.

This proposal introduces the new legal concept of Obvious Guilt in pre-meditated, freewill acts of physical assault that the AP Party will aggressively work to implement.  I am certain Americans will support and vote for all of these, including most Liberals! The Masses are not against the Death Penalty in specific cases.

Frankly, it was my concern of these three (3) crimes that kept me from leaving this project whenever I considered it over the years and now We can finally do something about it.

Several hundred thousand pedophile offenders are in a National Tracking System run by the Justice Department. Going forward such offenders will also have a near term meeting with a lethal injection.  Such criminals cannot be rehabilitated and frankly do not deserve to be living. The public speaks.

Finally, murder(s) committed during pre-meditated criminal acts are the third type of freewill assault that will earn the perpetrator a near term meeting with a lethal injection. Because of this and other parts of the AP Party platform we will NEVER need to build another prison.  Period! Saving taxpayer dollars from endless appeals and decades of warehousing what is human waste. 

And in some cases these penalties could be implemented retro-actively. A fourth category that may be added depending on public response are the pimps running the sex-slave industry. 

Harshly summarized, if civil society wants the end of certain free-will crimes, We will need to put some worthless people to death.  It certainly works in other countries and the DNA is much the same! 

• In 2009 some 50+ million Americans were without Health Care and those numbers up from 46 million in 2008. Since then the numbers continue to rise as the Medical Insurance Industry works to make it happen.  Further, those with Insurance are forced into predatory annual renewal cycles that only charge them more dollars for less coverage each year. 

Proposals 22 thru 27 in An American Agenda from the book CS2, are grouped under the heading of the American Industry Re-Structuring (AIR) System. There will more on those under #3.  AIR presents the rationale and approach to restructuring key infra-structure industries as We overhaul our broken economy.

In Proposal #22 – Health Care Insurance for ALL Americans (see a copy of it on , I used the Health Care industry to build the practical model used for the others. It details how We will bring an end to this public abuse by the involuntary restructuring of the Medical Insurance Industry.  Wait until that idea hits the news!  The others in the set are Pharmaceutical, Tobacco, Oil, Banking and Credit Card, and Defense. These are the biggest Congressional lobbies and this one will be the first to be dealt with. The majority of bankruptcies are now caused by large medical bills.  This must and will end. 

• The Cost of Living…  In September 2011 the Census Bureau reported that 46.2 million Americans  were living in poverty – or 15.1%.  The government continues to use ridiculous income levels, which are years out of date with economic reality in defining how many of our citizens are below the Poverty level. The bureau noted that the poverty line in 2010 for a family of four was $22,314. That is clear example of “out of touch with economic reality”.

Our economic restructuring as reviewed in Volume II will address this problem. Here are some details on Poverty Guidelines:

 

2011 HHS Poverty Guidelines
Persons in Family	48 Contiguous States and D.C.	Alaska	Hawaii
1	$10,890	$13,600	$12,540
2	14,710	18,380	16,930
3	18,530	23,160	21,320
4	22,350	27,940	25,710
5	26,170	32,720	30,100
6	29,990	37,500	34,490
7	33,810	42,280	38,880
8	37,630	47,060	43,270
For each additional person, add	3,820	4,780	4,390

SOURCE:  Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 13, January 20, 2011, pp. 3637-3638

• Some 280,000 government workers were laid-off just last year and due to budget cuts in federal to local governments more are on the way. How many of those individuals and families in this weak economy will eventually lose their medical benefits and lose homes to foreclosure and/or bankruptcy. Or will not be able to pay the rent?  We talked about Medical Insurance already. Volume II – Our 99% Solution will freeze and end foreclosures. This is also clarification and expansion of Proposal #12 – Family Basic Asset Protection.

• Statistics note that there are well over 25 million “daily” cannabis users in America. Among other topics in this list, this is a natural Super Pac issue!  Under Proposal #8 – The National Drug Reform (NDR) Program, cannabis will be fully legalized and decriminalized in America. People in prison for cannabis only offenses will be immediately released and their records cleared.

Further under Proposal#20 – The Domestic Cannabis Industry it will become a small business driven domestic industry.  And it will be kept specifically out of the reach of the Pharmaceutical and Tobacco Industries that would love to take control of it!  Also since the 1930s they have been the two (2) biggest industry lobbyists against cannabis legalization because it will hurt both of their sales.  Both England and Canada have wanted to make cannabis possession a parking ticket level offense for years, but our national drug office has pushed them not to it because of certain lobbyists!  

Potential candidates please consider that many of those same 25+ million citizens will vote!  No joke intended. 

• Currently one-half (1/2) of Americans under 30 years of age do not have a job. All of those in the 18 to 30 age group (approximately 45.5 million citizens)  can vote AND all those 25 years old and older satisfy the age requirement to run for the House of Representatives.  This struggling group should seriously consider helping create the AP Party Chapter in their respective US Districts! 

Those give you some idea of the aggressive and productive nature on the 27 solution proposals that form the AP Party basic Independent platform. For details on the others see #3, next and/or download a free copy of CS2 at OurIAPP.typepad.com. 

Someone in Washington Must to be Responsible

Going back to January of 1776 when Thomas Paine published Common Sense, he wrote about the “Design of Representative Government”. He created the model of what would become the very offices that now make up the US House of Representatives and the Senate. In it he declared regarding how those few selected by people from each locality to represent them at central government should conduct their legislative decisions writing, they should act if as those that selected them were present in the room. 

Congress seems to have forgotten all about that, and are now only voting like their industry lobbyists are in the room.

It is the primary responsibility of the members of the United States Congress to solve the public’s problems that cannot be resolved at the state or local levels. That is their basic job description. 

Again, as their employer We have every Right to fire them and the AP Party approach actually gives the American Electorate a prudent and practical way to do it – this year!

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There will be related daily postings in this series over the ten (10) days leading up to what I formally call, The 535 National Jobs Walk Day – February 29, 2012. 

That day if We act together will be the first public civil action in Our 2012 Electoral Revolution.  It is the historic grassroots movement, 

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

(the current members of the US Congress)

 This posting will be forwarded to the AP Party Twitter account @OurIAPP; to my Facebook account Andrew Jaye Wildman; and there will be related posting(s) each of these ten (10) days on the YouTube channelWildmanforPresident. 

Please check out the videos and pass all of this along to those you know, you Love, and otherwise care about.  That is why I wrote this for You my fellow American Citizen…

And please plan to take a few minutes to participate in The 535 Jobs Walkon February 29 at noon by time zone.   

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ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 9 of the Countdown to 2-29-12

#ReplaceCongressWSSVAPP – Day 9 of the Countdown

WSSVAPP – Walk, Select, Sign, and Vote Against Princes and Princesses

February 29, 2012 at High Noon

Question 1 of  9

Creating a Viable Third Party Movement – Nine Questions

 

About these contents:

There will be nine (9) daily postings under this heading.  They are intended to provide information, perspective, and training for potential volunteers and Indepedent AP Party supporting candidates.  Several of them a few thousand words long, but that detail is required to deliver adequate response to these important questions.  To promote common understanding of what is being offered to and asked of potential candidates for nationally elected office and volunteers that will build the AP Party Chapters across America, the responses the following questions are presented.  This level of detail will provide a reasonable picture of what this effort involves.  

 

1. Who is the AP Party’s Founder and Independent candidate for President of the United States, A J Wildman? Is he not just some well-intended patriot, but a person with a publicly acceptable and practical platform, a problem-solving background, and someone capable of leading our nation through its most difficult time since the Great Depression? 

In response to Number 1 of 9,

For Your Consideration

I would describe myself as a regular American citizen that has an odd and sometimes demanding political hobby.  My professional background is a 34-year career in the Information Technology (IT) industry in Washington, DC supporting both corporate and Federal agency clients.  While I designed computer systems and managed project development my specialties were solving business problems large and small, and resolving on difficult project situations. I am a professional business systems analyst and America is a business in Trouble. 

It just so happens that my lifelong hobby has been observing national politics and legislative policy.  While being raised in a Republican leaning household, I evolved thru a Democratic phase, and finally into a solid Independent after observing how both parties were failing the Common Good of the Masses.  

More details on my background are to be found in the Internet references listed under this item so I will not bother you with it here – only enough to frame this effort. In December 2002, I left my IT career to begin doing whatever I could to help my country’s situation.  Because of my long interest in legislative policy I knew then that the bad times had already begun and worse times were certain to (and did) follow!  Frankly, I did not see anyone else trying to protect the Common Good of our citizens. And I still don’t, do you?  That is our challenge!

Short video about A J Wildman's background

Over the first years I had an official yet amateur Independent campaign for President 2003-2004 which taught me volumes about the campaign thought process.  In 2004 I completed my first book, 321-page paperback size called, Common Interest.  After Bush II got re-elected I determined to write the second book, because I knew his second term would be worse than the first for the Masses – only it turned out to be worse than I ever expected. The Second Coming of Common Sense (CS2) is its title and it was self-published in February 2008 before the financial meltdown.  Its content is more relevant today then in 2008.  Somewhat objectively, it turned out to be a modern day sequel in intent to Thomas Paine’s Revolutionary War classic Common Sense. My CS2 is 718-pages on what is wrong with America and how We could actually fix it.  And that it would do!   

At the heart of the book is a piece called, An American Agenda that contains public concepts and 27 problem solving proposals.  Those detailed proposals are designed to save lives, improve lives, improve our economy, and will make far better use of our taxpayer dollars in running the federal government programs. Granted some of those solution proposals are aggressive to radical, but certain long-standing problems We still face require such social and economic surgery to rebuild our society. 

An American Agenda has now become the political, platform foundation of the American Peasant Party. Therefore, those who could be potential AP Party candidates need to familiarize themselves with its concepts and public philosophies and those contained in the rest of CS2 as well. Without any apology CS2 is intended to attend to the concerns and needs of our citizens before all others. Its 27 proposals are designed to be acceptable 60% or more of American citizens.  Consider – that is the type of voter support needed for us to get elected this year, and that will not even require 60% of the vote! In a real 3-way race for House, Senate or President the winner would need about 40-45% of the popular vote to win!  Think about that.  Every concept and proposal in CS2 was critiqued by many people and the result of literally thousands of one-on-one conversations over some decades. It is far from one person’s opinion or written from a single point-of-view. 

I will also offer on my background that in order to cover my expenses and maintain medical coverage over those nine (9) years I was a Mortgage Loan Officer for a couple years (@ 2004-2005) and worked in the retail industry for seven (7) of them.  The economics of this personal project have been difficult at times and frankly wiped me out financially which was my free choice in this pursuit. However, I did not quit and now here We are with this historic opportunity at out fingertips. Consider that if this was easy politically and/or programmatically someone else would have done it already! 

Those jobs granted me a great insight into the real estate boom and bust, as well as the contracting retail economy.  I regularly talked with people of all types and opinions on politics and religion. So, enough on all that except to say that this is not a book selling exercise since CS2 posted for FREE download.  At the same time your donation through the website to the AP Party is needed and would be very appreciated!

For detailed answers to a many questions about the platform, the AP Party, and yours truly here are five (5) Internet resources and the purpose of each. 

CommonSense2009.typepad.com

In 2009 I created this website and posted the entire 718-page book, The Second Coming of Common Sense (CS2) in 44 excerpts or parts. It is presented as an expanded copy of the Table of Contents with some comments from me included. 

Again the book was self-published in February of 2008, a rather busy political year as you might recall!  It could be argued that CS2 was ahead of its time in many ways. Or in a more sarcastic note, that some of the issues it was warning us about just weren’t bad enough yet to gain public attention. Well guess what! They sure as hell are bad enough now and getting worse even because our elected national government continues to ignore the suffering of the Masses. Ironically, even my most radical proposals calling for the involuntary restructuring of “key infrastructure industries” such as Medical Insurance, Oil, and Banking could gain wide public support given today’s economic turmoil.  We shall see!   

There are a few introductory documents, but it is primarily a book reading site.  Everything on the site is in PDF format for easy access and FREE download.  If someone so desires, the soft cover version of CS2 can be ordered there for home delivery via a link to VirtualBookWorm.com.

TheCommonSenseBlog.typepad.com

Also in 2009 I created this site with many politically oriented document references and made minor additions to it in 2010 and 2011.

There are extended letters to President Obama, the Press, and “You” the citizens of our nation.  To better understand and talk about the AP Party platform those are excellent resources. 

 In some way a few other documents I had on the site have dropped off.  The set of them presenting American Industry Restructuring from the book CS2 are included on the Internet sites listed above and below this one. An informative document is my 2004, 130-page National Drug Reform (NDR) Proposal.  It is actually a practical way to end the War on Drugs. The full legalization and decriminalization of marijuana is a by-product of that prudent national reform program.  I will add a PDF of the NDR to the Internet site below this one in the near future.

The few other downloads had to do with the US Congress seniority rankings as of 2008 election and are of minor importance now.  As a grim note from that research, going into the 2008 election the 535 members of the US Congress collectively had over 5,000 years of experience under the US Capitol Dome. What a waste of good space.

Also, please check out some of the Blog’s postings.  

OurIApp.typepad.com – Official Website of The American Peasant Party

First of all, OurIAPP stands for Our Independent American Peasant Party.  Try putting it into Google. 

In July of 2011, I created what is currently the AP Party’s only Internet site.  As the other two (2) it is technically a Blog site.  It presents a good amount of public friendly information.  Data that you and those interested in supporting you as a candidate would be want to get familiar with. The volunteers that begin building the AP Party Chapters in each US District will find this is an excellent reference source for them learn about the Party, the platform, and yours truly.  It is where to send people who want background on this Independent movement.

Besides my periodic Blog postings, it currently contains the following types of information all in FREE download, PDF format: 

• A FREE, PDF copy of The Second Coming of Common Sense (CS2) . 
• Links to read and/or order CS2 at CommonSense2009.typepad.com.  
• All 27 proposals from An American Agenda in CS2.
• A 28^th proposal about Recalling the 67 US Senators in 2012, that are not up for re-election this year. That is what is meant by 468 to 535 job openings! 
• Copies of the first seven (7) postings again with good perspective on the party and our current political environment. 
• Again, a good variety of postings since July, including my involvement with the New Orleans Occupy Wall Street group with photos and videos from some OWS marches.
• A PDF of this document, Common Sense 2012 will soon to be in e-book form. 
• A PDF of the document, Our 99% Solution – More Common Sense also soon to be in e-book form.  That book is the finalized version of a 11-6-2011 posting (and PDF) entitled, Our 99% Solution and 2^nd American Revolution. It was my blunt and aggressive response to the coming Second Great Depression and the collapse of the US Dollar. That is not a joke in any way. It is the greatest problem we now face as a nation and it is being covered over by both the Congress and the White House.

These two (2) books should be considered as companion documents.  A one-two punch if you will at the current political system and our current economic crisis. Those and CS2 will soon be available for purchase in iPad, Kindle, etc., friendly format. That should make it easier for people to access the Independent political message of the AP Party. Good stuff! 

YouTube Channel, “WildmanforPresident” – My Campaign Channel

It contains the initial set of informative videos with me discussing the AP Party and some of issues.  Take a look. Going forward it will focus on my comments about issues of the day, other candidates, and campaign events.