User:Ericwooten3/GOOOH

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GOOOH Political Action Committee represents a new political party in the United States. It is responsible for overseeing a self-funding selection process enabling everyday Americans with modest means to be chosen by the populace of their congressional district as federal Congressional candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as financing their congressional campaigns in the national elections.

The GOOOH Political Action Committee filed with the Federal Election Commission on November 26, 2007 and it was recommended it operate as a PAC until it had multiple candidates identified and met all other National Committee standards.

GOOOH stands for "Get Out of Our House" and is pronounced like the word "go". As the name implies, the organization aims to replace the 435 career politicians of the U.S. House of Representatives with its own non-partisan representatives, ostensibly to serve in the House as citizen statesmen that return to their private lives after a limited number of terms (currently proposed as 2).

Its main counterparts are the Republican National Committee, the Democratic National Committee, the Libertarian National Committee and the Green National Committee.

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[edit] Campaign role

The GOOOH Political Action Committee is a newly formed and rapidly growing group of American patriots concerned with the impact career politicians are having on America. It is responsible for promoting its candidate selection system and coordinating party organizational activity. It plays no role in Presidential Elections and focuses solely on Congressional Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives. It also supervises its own "convention" and raises funds, commissions polls, and coordinates campaign strategy. Following the selection of a party nominee, the public funding laws permit the PAC to coordinate certain expenditures with the nominee, but additional funds are spent on general party-building.

[edit] Candidate Funding System

All qualifying citizens wishing to become GOOOH Candidates on their district's ballot will participate in funding a collective national campaign via the fee they submit to participate in the candidate selection sessions. The aggregate of fees collected from all participants will not be directed to an individual candidate's campaign, but rather to primarily promote the system as a whole with ancillary local campaigning on behalf of each district's selected candidate.

[edit] Candidate Application Process

Candidates are almost any persons interested in participating in the candidate selection process with the goal of becoming an elected representative. Candidates will be required to complete a six step process: 1. Become a member (for free) on the GOOOH website. 2. Pass a Candidate Screening Exam to ensure eligibility. 3. Fill in an online Candidate Questionnaire to publicly record personal platform. 4. Sign a Commitment Agreement stating they will legislate according to their questionnaire answers. 5. Pay a Campaign Support Fee. 6. Submit their entry, thus registering to attend a candidate selection session in their district.

Candidate Screening Exam: Certain categories of people may be screened from the process based on Constitutional requirements, over-representation in government or other factors. Examples of groups excluded, but not limited to: non-U.S. citizens, those under the age of 25, felons, politicians and men of wealth.

Candidate Questionnaire: Candidates’ submitted answers will be made available to other candidates assigned to their selection pool, and possibly to the public at large. The responses of the selected candidate will become public record. Input to the questions will be accepted via an online Web site. Modifications to the final Questionnaire may be made based on this input. The final Questionnaire will be posted so that candidates may enter their responses online.

Commitment Agreement: A legally binding document that each Candidate will be required to sign in which each candidate promises they will resign from office if they vote against any answer given in their Questionnaire.

Campaign Support Fee: A modest fee may be required from each Candidate. The fee is required to 1) seed the national campaign fund, 2) to eliminate those who are not serious candidates, and 3) pay for expenses of the system.

[edit] Candidate Selection Process

The GOOOH system1 invites Americans to participate in the selection of a single candidate, within each district, for the U.S. House of Representatives. Further, by participating in the process to select candidates, all participants become candidates themselves within the selection process.

The GOOOH system currently excludes politicians, active prosecuting attorneys, and individuals whose family has assets valued at more than $11.5 million (250 times the median income) from participation in the system. These three groups are excluded because GOOOH considers them to be "...overly represented in government today and, generally speaking, no longer seem to represent the interests of the common man..."

Selection Sessions

Candidates who apply to participate in Candidate Selection Sessions will be randomly grouped with other candidates from their district into 10-man session groups. Session participants review and interview each other regarding their respective Candidate Questionnaire answers and then select the two candidates that best represent the political views that that 10-man group. These two candidates advance to the next round from each pool, the process repeats itself, and eventually a single nominee is selected as the GOOOH congressional nominee for each of the 435 congressional districts. Each district nominee will then be placed on the ballot as that district’s representative candidate.

Mission Statement

• To select nominees that best represent the views of each congressional district. • To replace career politicians with citizen statesmen from each congressional district. • To eliminate the control that predominant political parties have on their members. • To eliminate the dependence/influence special interest financing on the election process.

[edit] Post-Election Candidate Accountability

Commitment Agreement

Candidates will sign an agreement letter stating that they will voluntarily resign from office within 72 hours if they legislate contrary to their answers on the Candidate Questionnaire.

Override Clause

Given that each representative will be required to vote on a per-issue basis as he declared in his Questionnaire answers, he can either abstain from voting or he can invoke the Override Clause if he wishes to vote counter to the way he responded to the Candidate Questionnaire. A Representative must seek approval from the members of his district through online blogs/forums/surveys submitted to his district constituents via the GOOOH website. A predetermined portion of the district’s population will be required to submit a survey vote, and a predetermined percent of the voters who respond will be required to approve the change.

[edit] Summary

The GOOOH system allows almost every American with modest means an opportunity to run for Congress via a participant-financed campaign fund, allows the electoral body in each congressional district to understand in advance how candidates will legislate on a variety of issues prior to their selection, allows the electoral body in each congressional district to select the candidate that best represents their district's unique political views, and provides a mechanism to hold candidates accountable so that they vote in a manner that fulfills the legislative promises they made to their district constituents.


[edit] Current GOOOH National Committee leadership

  • Founder: Tim Cox References Tim Cox. (2007). Get Out of Our House: Revolution!, Bridgeway Books. ISBN 978-1-934454-03-9

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