By Sean White
Everyone complains about money in politics, but nobody does anything about it. This is the first opportunity in your lifetime where you have a chance to vote for someone whose campaign is not funded by special interest money.
The system is corrupt and the laws that allow special interests to fund campaigns are morally and legally corrupt. People that are not American own many of the corporate interests that finance American campaigns. There are other special interests that finance campaigns that represent only the interests of a small portion of society.
To represent society as a whole, a candidate must not owe favors to any of these special interests any more than they owe favors to their neighbor who does not belong to one of these special interest groups.
It is time to make a stand against special interests controlling campaigns. I challenge you the voter to see the mailers and signs that litter our society around election time for what they are. They are highly financed, very expensive techniques that are carefully designed to influence you to make a decision to support the candidate that represents the special interest groups that financed those signs.
Some of the signs are paid for by big business that want to take away the pension plans of the employees while the signs of opposing candidates are paid for by groups that want the pension plans to increase to levels that are unfairly high.
I am the candidate that owes nothing to the special interests and will make decisions on behalf of the people that are true and fair. When I am in office, I am the only candidate who will not have to worry about making decisions to please those who write big checks.
When you see that glossy sign and the glossy mailer, remember to look deep into what that high gloss represents. It represents a high cost that special interest groups are paying to influence your decisions in the polling place, so that you will vote for their special interest financed pawn.
I ran for supervisor in 2000 and asked three people for $100 each and it was three of the most embarrassing things that I ever had to do in my life. I can’t imagine the humiliation that moral candidates must feel when they ask for money and then are asked by those who gave them money to make political decisions on their behalf.
This year in America, special interests are expected to spend more money on campaigns than ever before in history. We all know that this money is being spent to influence politicians in a selfish way.
I am asking you in 2012 to read deep into the material that is being presented to you on the side of the road and in your mailboxes. Please see where this is coming from and vote for candidates based on the content of their character, rather than the funding of their signs and mailers.
I encourage you to compare candidates on an even playing field at the League of Women Voters Smart Voter website. You can also be directed there via www.seanwhite.org
