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Uniting Americans One Question at a Time
Every politician should answer this yes or no question:
Should government officials who accept bribes be removed from office?
We (you included) should ask them and record their answer!
The goal of this project is to firmly establish that bribery is outside of the Overton Window in the US. Getting the answer to this deceptively simple question can make a difference.
The goal of this project is to firmly establish that bribery is outside of the Overton Window in the US. Getting the answer to this deceptively simple question can make a difference.
We are asking journalists to ask everyone who participates in US democracy to go on the record on one question:
Should government officials who accept bribes be removed from office?
We then want to make it easy for people who are interested to quickly find that original reporting on the original websites.
WHY SHOULD JOURNALISTS SUPPORT THIS EFFORT?
1) Your readers/viewers/listeners deserve to know if their representatives are OK with corruption?
2) We will send traffic directly to your reporting - establishing you as the source of record for your beat.
WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND CANDIDATES SUPPORT THIS EFFORT?
1) The people you represent want and deserve to know if their representatives are OK with corruption?
2) If journalists have to chase you for this answer, people will draw their own conclusions.
WHY SHOULD MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SUPPORT THIS EFFORT?
1) If your representatives cannot answer a question as simple as this, YOU have a real problem.
2) Corruption is the key tool used to tear down democracies. If officials start taking bribes, trust in government is naive.
3) The seeds of corruption are growing in the US and if we don't start fixing it now, your grandkids will be raised as drones in an authoritarian world.
4) Democracies are struggling across the globe. Supporting this simple effort is something you can do to help.
Here is how you can make a difference!
Here is how you can make a difference!
We are asking journalists to ask everyone who participates in US democracy to go on the record on one question:
Should government officials who accept bribes be removed from office?
We then want to make it easy for people who are interested to quickly find that original reporting on the original websites.
Step 1 - Ask local officials our simple question
Step 1 - Ask local officials our simple question
The sooner and more clearly you get them on the record more it becomes the norm to do so.
Also, it would be lots of fun for a journalist to ask follow ups if someone can't answer this simple question.
Step 2 - Publish your story!!
Step 2 - Publish your story!!
That is the good part!
Step 3 - Send Us The Link
Step 3 - Send Us The Link
Send us the link to your story at your site. We want to drive traffic so you get the clicks.
We will review it and add it to the list.
That's it; you have made a difference.
That's it; you have made a difference.
We are creating a searchable database and will be highlighting the most interesting answers.
Send Us Links
Send links of stories covering public officials answering our simple question to links@broad-center.com
We will review every link before we post it, so it may take a while to get it posted.
Also, we will post the link to archive.org, just in case someone changes the contents of the link we can see what we tried to do.
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