8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 36, 40, 41, 42, 46, 51
8. Revolving door policy: Legislators shall have a cooling off period, equal to one half of the time spent in office, between the time when they leave office, and when they can become eligible to lobby or take positions or compensation from regulatory agencies, big business, banks, hedge funds, or any other entity within reach of their former influence.
9. Insider Trading: Congress shall not be exempted from any federal law prohibiting insider trading.
12. Congressional retirement plans: Congress shall purchase their own retirement plans just as all citizens.
13. Salaries: Congress shall not be allowed to vote on congressional pay raises. Congressional salaries shall rise by the lower of the Consumer Price Index [CPI] or 3%.
14. No separate health system: Congress shall not have a separate health care system than that available to the people.
15. Equal under the Law: Congress must equally abide by all laws it imposes on the people.
16. Balance the budget: The members of the California legislature shall be held accountable by operation of law to balance the budget, or enact legislation [such as Proposition 30] to balance the budget on a timely basis each year.
17. Gerrymandering: Congressional Districts shall be mapped using neutral criteria according to physical or historical boundaries, and not to preserve one political party’s dominance over another.
18. Corporations like their executives will have to pay taxes just like other "people" or "citizens": Since the lobbyists of corporations convinced think tanks and a few justices on the Supreme Court that unrestricted amounts of cash political donations amount to Free Speech under the First Amendment, and that corporations therefore have the same rights as people or citizens when it comes to donating proportionately huge amounts of cash to their political puppets -- corporations will henceforth have to pay their taxes too, in percentages equal or greater than all the other "people" and "citizens"...
26. No bill or law materially different than its title: Congress shall pass no bill nor enact any law that is materially different in substance from its title.
27. No political advertising to materially deceive the public: There shall be no political commercials or advertisements which could materially mislead the public as to the effect of a vote for or against the proposition.
28. Ninety day apprenticeship for incoming elected officials: I advocate that the newly elected shall not be required to wait until November to take part in the running of government business, and that they shall be required to effectively work within the office of the previous administration for 30 to 90 days in order to learn how that business is operated. That is the way the way the proper and efficient transfer of leadership is handled in the business world, and it should be no different by comparison to the running of government business.
29. Increase salaries of the Senate and Congress: Salaries should be increased so that they are commensurate with the salaries of CEO's and COO's handling similar jobs in the private sector. It is much easier to attract executive officials if their salaries are in line with the business world. It makes the seat more attractive to better qualified executives. Also, it would prevent temptation.
However, such an increase in salaries should be voted on by the public as an incentive for past good work only once we clean up the mess that past and current legislators exacerbate. For instance, judicial reform is made difficult without reform of a congress that often sides with the actions of international corporations. Civil rights reform is difficult in the face of a very unfair and unfriendly legal world where those with the most money have the advantage. Police reform is made difficult without reform of a judiciary that often sides with the position of the police. Our current Congress, one of the more hypocritical congresses in the history of the United States, should not be paid one more dime until they can be liberated from the deep seated lobbying system then controls them. In fact, a number of them who avoid to enact genuine laws by placing their own political interests ahead of the people and the country should be in jail.
To attract more competent legislators and reduce the temptation to engage in graft, the salaries of legislators should eventually by raised until they are commensurate with the salaries of executives handling jobs of similar scope nd importance. A new tax system that eliminates ambiguities for wealthy tax free aristocracies and requires multi-billionaire off-shore tax dodgers to pay their fair share is a ready source of such pay increases as voted on by the people for legislatures that prove themselves by enacting straightforward legislation.
30. Increase salaries of police officers, sheriffs and similar public servants: Funding of law enforcement departments, as well as police and sheriffs officers and all support agencies should be increased if they have received appropriate college level degrees with approved courses in psychology and how to deal with various kinds of people, or have completed other approved training.
Personnel in all such government agencies should be encouraged and protected to speak courteously, and without recrimination, to those who may speak or act in ways prejudicial to the rights of others, in order to let their friends know that such conduct is morally wrong, contravenes their promises to protect and serve, and undermines the public trust. No increases in funding, and in fact reductions of funding should occur, if the conduct of the corrupted ten percent is not restrained within one year. As reform occurs, higher salaries will discourage the temptation of becoming corrupted, and make it easier for departments to attract higher qualified personnel.
A new tax system that eliminates ambiguities for wealthy tax free aristocracies and requires multi-billionaire off-shore tax dodgers to pay their fair share is a ready source of such long overdue pay increases. However, no increases in funding, and in fact defunding should occur, unless the conduct of the corrupt ten percent in law enforcement is shown to be restrained.
31. Increase salaries of judges and justices: Salaries of California judges and justices presiding over case loads and cash strapped courts should be increased to attract a wider range of executive caliber magistrates after the legislature and the judicial council reinforces guidelines making it mandatory for judges to recuse themselves from cases where they have shown a pattern of unjust outcomes against classes of minorities, or in favor of large municipalities, international corporate or financial enterprises, or lawmakers' pension funds. Higher salaries also prevent temptation. Again, a new tax system that eliminates ambiguities for wealthy tax free aristocracies and requires multi-billionaire off-shore tax dodgers to pay their fair share is a ready source for such pay increases.
36. Term Extensions and Limits: A two year term for Congress is not an adequate amount of time to get the job done, because a person elected to Congress has to start right away raising money to become elected again. I would propose extending the terms for the Congress, Senate and the Presidency to five years. However I am inclined to advocate limits requiring 10 years in office only, under one of the following options: (a) Two five year Senate terms, (b) Two five year House terms, (c) One five year Senate term and one five year House term. I would also consider alternative proposals seeking to achieve a similar reform.
40. Increased coordination of legislature with non-lobbyist experts: Promote the coordination of independently chosen non-lobbyist experts with Congress regarding the issues at hand.
40. Enact new laws pertaining to Undue Influence, Corruption and Incompetence: Fund task forces and/or otherwise aid the legislature and the state and federal courts to act in the public interest by enacting laws that enable proper scrutiny of undue influence, corruption and incompetence among government, federal and state police services, attorneys and related entities.
41. Promote laws that enable trial courts to be attentive to mortgage nominee, servicer or master servicer fraud, and the validity of instruments used to transfer or foreclose private property: It is vital to the future of the California economy that citizens who can afford homes be allowed to make affordable payments and retain homeownership. In the absence of the monopoly bank servicers modifying predatory payment shock loans, or curtailing their criminally influenced foreclosure and collection mills, and the legislature’s apparent lack of confidence in their ability to compel them do so, it is up to the legislature to guide the individual local courts, the trial courts, the courts of the people, to put a stop to the economic drain, and the destruction of families, on a case by case basis. I promise to encourage the legislature and the federal and higher courts to act further in the public interest by rendering laws that enable trial courts to be attentive to mortgage nominee, servicer or master servicer fraud, and the validity of instruments used to transfer or foreclose upon mortgages and private property.
42. Mandatory sentencing requirements: Reform mandatory sentencing requirements for certain non-violent crimes and drug addiction offenses.
46. Codify a comprehensive, voluntary system of public election financing: so that candidates can successfully fund their own campaigns without anonymous corporate spending, bribes and intimidation from private contributors and political parties.
51: Reform of prison systems - End incarceration for profit: The United States incarcerates more people than all leading nations combined. For-profit prisons create a demand for more prisoners to warehouse and inherently care not about rehabilitation or recidivism.
The Federal prison system's largest source of funds are multinational communications and military defense corporations. Corporations such as Onstar, Comcast and ATT pay zero taxes while employing inmates for telecommunications jobs at 6 cents per hour. Unicor Corporation, another government company also pays zero taxes while employing thousands in its "cut and sew" factories making furniture for the government. It is also one of the military industrial complexes largest five vendors making Humvees and the Humvee engines. All the supervisors of these facilities are white collar crime convicts who are paid nothing.
I want there to be an Act based upon reverse tax incentives to encourage these above-mentioned prison corporations to place the teaching of job skills and rehabilitation ahead of profiteering on the backs of those who have fallen under the wheel.
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