Force Congress to display logos of their corporate backers on their clothes
Via Boing Boing
The idea of forcing Congresscritters to wear NASCAR-style coveralls with the logos of their financial backers has been bandied about before, but here it is in official White House petition form.
Since most politicians’ campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company’s logo, or individual’s name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate’s clothing at all public appearances and campaign events. Once elected, the candidate would be required to continue to wear those “sponsor’s” names during all official duties and visits to constituents. The size of a logo or name would vary with the size of a donation. For example, a $1 million dollar contribution would warrant a patch of about 4″ by 8″ on the chest, while a free meal from a lobbyist would be represented by a quarter-sized button. Individual donations under $1000 are exempt.
As funny as this is, it would be easy-ish to turn this into a browser plugin that looked for politicians’ names in the pages you looked at, and automatically surrounded them with a semi-opaque halo of corporate logos that you could click on to see more.
Require Congressmen & Senators to wear logos of their financial backers on their clothing, much like NASCAR drivers do. (via Beyond the Beyond)
Wearing racing coveralls to Congress isn’t likely to work.
You can’t be an empty suit if you’re not wearing a suit.
So, every campaign contribution of $500 or more should have to come with a lapel pin that must be worn at all public appearances. No more American flag pins — deck the lawmakers out with pins from Bank of America, NRA, Exxon Mobil, insurance companies, the unions, the works. You can differentiate the extent to which they’ve been bought by bronze, silver, gold and platinum options for the pins. Senators would be wearing more pins than most four-star generals.
http://delawareliberal.net//2009/08/25/and-now-a-word-from-toms-sponsors/
Must I say, Appeal Citizen’s United. Super PACs make It hard to know who, where and how much money
Is supporting our political candidates. These are not small contributions of less than $1000.00 being spent- this is big corporate money. Corporations are People. Super PACs are non-profit organizations.