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Tyler Durden
#21 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:41:04 PM
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The question that seems to equate membership in the ACLU (a group that has always stood for the Common People an FREE SPEECH) with the KKK and NAMBLA is patently absurd and should be removed.

One might as well have a question about not being a member of the NAACP, or a union. This should be changed immediately.

In addition, the term limits of a Federal Office Holder are already limited by the ballot. It is the ELECTION process which has been perverted by the Political Parties, not the Constitution. Being removed from office by election is one of the pillars of the process.

Until these are modified, I cannot participate, and would enthusiastically if this were to happen. I cannot recommend or support GOOOH in this present incarnation.
bill munson
#22 Posted : Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:15:22 PM
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I agree about the link and I would not want to be associated with the KKK. As for the term limits, we have representitives and senators that have been in the same office for so long that we have come to think of the seat as belonging to them or in the case of the kennedy seat as a family seat. Another kennedy was asked to fill the seat and I am not sure if she was qualified or not. The simple fact that she was a Kennedy was good enough.
In my understanding the goooh people want to limit the number of terms and I think that allowing a cooling off period would be a good thing. Let them go back to there home state to get re-aquainted with there own people. Case in point and I may be wrong, Forgive me in advance; the Wa. 5th district has three ladies representing us in Wa. and only one maintaines offices in the state. Sad is it not?
Goooh is not perfect but give it a chance please. You can always vote for someone else in the end
bill munson
#23 Posted : Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:26:10 PM
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I wonder if all the other requirements for goooh candidates would screen out any corrupt polititions and lawyers and if it does then allow these people to run. We may need thier expertice in some things relating to law and process. Just a thought
Nateholio
#24 Posted : Friday, February 25, 2011 8:57:36 PM
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Question #2 needs to go.

1) Nowhere in the Constitution is any education requirement established to be eligible for office
2) A piece of paper, HS diploma or otherwise, doesn't mean you have a brain. If you believe this you are playing right into the Statists' hands.
3) With few exceptions, this rule ensures that candidates will have been educated by the Great Provider...the State. The exception is private schooling, but that's the exception, not the rule.
The Cold War never ended...socialism still exists
Rotorwash
#25 Posted : Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:52:38 AM
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Nateholio wrote:
Question #2 needs to go.

1) Nowhere in the Constitution is any education requirement established to be eligible for office
2) A piece of paper, HS diploma or otherwise, doesn't mean you have a brain. If you believe this you are playing right into the Statists' hands.
3) With few exceptions, this rule ensures that candidates will have been educated by the Great Provider...the State. The exception is private schooling, but that's the exception, not the rule.


Are you talking about a mock question, or the real questionnaire? (Q2 addresses line item veto.)

But regarding some of the questions that are a little "out there"...I would just as soon know where they stand on constitutional AND nonconstitutional issues alike.

If the questions only addressed those issues within the realm of constitutionality, the unprincipled candidates would never be revealed.
bill munson
#26 Posted : Saturday, February 26, 2011 12:34:12 PM
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The way I understand it, these are just questions that require you to state your opinion and nothing more. Others can get an idea of where you stand and hold you to that position. Right or wrong it only matters if you lie. I may be wrong but the only question that requires anything is that you don't lie.
If what you do once elected is un-constitutional or not good for the people there are others right beside you to tell you that and if you continue, you are obligated to step down.
As long as we come to this forum with negative input we are showing others that we are not all on the same page and that only weakens our cause. We should suggest changes, yes, but lets come together and reassure newbies that this is the right thing to do. Answer their questions, yes, address their concerns, yes, but also reinforce the idea that this is not perfect, but it is better than what we have now. At present we are trying to get their opinion, they will be controlled by we the people.
Rotorwash said it best"...I would just as soon know where they stand on constitutional AND nonconstitutional issues alike."

lanic
#27 Posted : Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:26:21 PM
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sbrocco1 wrote:
The item that excludes persons who were ever members of ACLU or who ever donated to the organization seems to be over the top to me. While the ACLU has certainly shown its true colors in recent years, 30 to 35 years ago when I was in graduate school I was a member and volunteer expert witness for ACLU to help a poor mother keep her baby from the clutches of an unreasonable county system. We were fighting AGAINST GOVERNMENT INTRUSION. I was over the age of 25, barely. Later the ACLU became too radical for me and I quit.

I think our process would be better served without that exclusion. Many intelligent peóple were fooled about the ACLU not that long ago. After all, who wouldn't want to preserve American Civil Liberties?

If my well-intentioned membership in the ACLU almost 30 years ago excludes me from being a GOOOH candidate now then I'll have to reconsider my membership in GOOOH.

THANK YOU to the committee who modified the item so that I now pass. I'm still not so sure we wouldn't be better off without the reference to the ACLU, since the candidate selection process will screen out anyone with radical left ideas. But thank you for progress.


I don't like this question either - the ACLU fights for religious liberty, freedom of speech, press, assembly - there may be some things they fight for the founders & members of GOOOH don't agree with, but you'd be better off being more specific than trying to corral it all under the ACLU. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - and they baby isn't the ACLU - its the people who are potential members who start to see partisan politics in a question like that, and from a group [GOOOH] that is supposedly non-partisan.
lanic
#28 Posted : Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:28:45 PM
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Tyler Durden wrote:
The question that seems to equate membership in the ACLU (a group that has always stood for the Common People an FREE SPEECH) with the KKK and NAMBLA is patently absurd and should be removed.

One might as well have a question about not being a member of the NAACP, or a union. This should be changed immediately.

In addition, the term limits of a Federal Office Holder are already limited by the ballot. It is the ELECTION process which has been perverted by the Political Parties, not the Constitution. Being removed from office by election is one of the pillars of the process.

Until these are modified, I cannot participate, and would enthusiastically if this were to happen. I cannot recommend or support GOOOH in this present incarnation.



I don't like this question either - the ACLU fights for religious liberty, freedom of speech, press, assembly - there may be some things they fight for the founders & members of GOOOH don't agree with, but you'd be better off being more specific than trying to corral it all under the ACLU. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - and they baby isn't the ACLU - its the people who are potential members who start to see partisan politics in a question like that, and from a group that is supposedly non-partisan.

(YES, I'm repeating myself in case you missed my response on the last comment about this question)
Tim C
#29 Posted : Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:50:20 PM
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The list at the top of this thread is a bit dated. The system continues to evolve, including the "Screening Exam." Members can see the current version under the Act Tab.
missellen
#30 Posted : Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:36:01 PM
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Seriously??? Equating the ACLU with the KKK? That shows a lack of grounding in reality. I can not support this group with that wording in place.

I am also concerned that there could be a right wing, anti-gay, anti-choice or "christian conservative" bias here as well. That and ACLU bashing tend to go together. Too bad folks.
AidaG
#31 Posted : Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:42:34 AM
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Thank you so much, administrators, for supporting members in this topic! I've read the whole thread and many things are now clear to me and I think I'm ready to try applying for membership of the NAACP.
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