MILLER-MAZE SUPPORTERS NEEDED!

[Pryderi]

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The Return of Responsible Government includes proposals on:

Campaign Finance Reform:

The Miller-Maze Administration will take up Secretary of State Trey Grayson's task force proposal for a 60-day pre-election report and expand it to 90 days.

* The Miller-Maze campaign will voluntarily report 90 and 60 days before this May's primary election and before this November's general election.
* Our campaign requests all other candidates to follow suit.

Lobbying Reform:

* Require annual reports by lobbyists' employers clearly showing their last five years of contributions to lawmakers.
* Disclosures will be made on line because the public has a right to know which lobbyists' employers have contributed to which members of the General Assembly.
* Legislative trusts and caucus funds will be eliminated.
* End the loophole around current contribution restrictions.
* Extend the current ban on lobbying by former state executive branch officers and elected officials who currently can be on special interest payroll just six months after leaving office and can be lobbying state lawmakers just one year after leaving office.
* Extend from six to 18 months the ban on which former officials can get a job with special interests and from one year to two the ban on which they can lobby.

Open Budget Process:

The Miller-Maze Administration will fight to make conference committee meetings public when lawmakers are discussing the budget.

* Just last year, lawmakers met for hours to discuss the state budget with no public vote taken on compromises made and with expenditures that likely would never have seen passage if the votes were up to public scrutiny.
* Require on-line posting of all conference committee bills at least 24 hours in advance of any final vote.
* Disclose names of General Assembly members who sponsor any pork-barrel project.
* If lawmakers don't pass a budget, they don't get paid.

Fair and Open Contracting:

The Miller-Maze Administration will put an end to no-bid state government contracting. Kentucky does billions of dollars of business each year with private contractors.

* Require bids on all state contracts except in cases of emergency.
* Require that our bidding process is fair and open.
* Disclose all contracting and bidding with full explanations of each decision on an on-line database.

Accountability:

The Miller-Maze Administration will require all political appointees, including administration "volunteers," to sign and uphold a strict Code of Ethics.

* Immediately remove any appointee or volunteer who breaks the Code.
* End political pardons.
* Create a bipartisan, independent commission to fully investigate charges of both ethical and criminal wrong-doing.

People who courageously expose waste and fraud in our government must be protected from intimidation.

* Remove from office managers who try to punish whistleblowers.
* Make violations of the merit laws felonies instead of misdemeanors, the current status.

The Miller-Maze Administration will expand the enforcement resources of the Executive Branch Ethics Commission by creating an independent task force to battle corruption. The new task force will report to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission and will operate within the Kentucky State Police.

* Take the politics out of the Executive Branch Ethics Commission by ending partisan appointments to the body.

[groovedaddy]

1. Jonathan Miller will make a great governor

First of all, he is honest. How many politicians can you say that about?
He's also very inteligent.
He is willing to stand up to special interests - he's not "owned" by anyone.
When David Williams tried to raid the KAPT fund, Miller stood up to him, took him to court and forced him to back down. This guy needs to be in the Governor's mansion to prove what he can do!

[alfredo]

2. I was phone banking for him today. I did some envelop stuffing too.