Missouri Farm Bureau
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Kevin Craig - "Liberty Under God"
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| Campaign
Reform |
Kevin Craig is not accepting any monetary
campaign contributions from anyone. |
| We believe
there should be election law reforms at the state and federal levels
to afford challengers the same opportunities as incumbents. We favor
campaign spending limits. Other reforms could include such things as
limits on amounts of money collected for campaigns, unfair use of
travel, staff and franking privileges by incumbents, individual
contributions to candidates, size of "war chests", and a
prohibition on contributions to state incumbents during a
legislative session. |
Nevertheless, he believes there should be
no limits of any kind on either campaign contributions or
expenditures. Not everyone can be a candidate, and contributions
function as a substitute for free speech. Take away the power to
contribute and you take away the right to speak.
Campaign Finance and
Corruption
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| We reaffirm
our policy supporting campaign contribution limits and support
legislation putting campaign limits in place as well as further
increasing transparency through the electronic reporting process. |
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| We have
concerns with individuals and special interest groups using
political committees to make sizeable indirect contributions to
candidates, thereby avoiding public disclosure; consequently, we
believe such “pass-through funding” by using political
committees should be made transparent or eliminated. |
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| We support
legislation that only allows financial contributions for
Presidential and Congressional candidates from U.S. citizens that
reside in areas that the candidate would represent. |
Kevin Craig does not live in the area he
would represent if elected.
If there's only one Congressman in Congress who stands for
"Liberty Under God," you should be permitted to support
that Congressman even if you don't live in his district.
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| We are
troubled by the amount of negative and misleading advertisements in
today's political campaigns. We support efforts to penalize a
candidate's campaign for advertisements that are found to be
untruthful and slanderous. |
"If there be time to expose through
discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the
processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech,
not enforced silence."
- US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis |
| We oppose any
state or federal elected official from changing their party
affiliation during their elected term. |
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| We believe
the use of recorded messages for campaign purposes should be
abolished. We believe campaigns should abide by Missouri's no-call
list. |
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| We have
questions regarding the effects of state legislative term limits and
have concerns with the direction of campaign financing in Missouri;
therefore, we believe Missouri Farm Bureau should conduct an
analysis/study concerning these issues and report the results at the
most appropriate time to the state and county Farm Bureau boards of
directors. |
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| Candidate
Residency Requirements |
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| We believe
all candidates should be required to be a resident of the area they
anticipate representing for at least one year before they can be
elected to any office. |
Although Kevin Craig does most of his
business and commuting in the area he seeks to serve, he has never
resided in that area, and knows little about the district in which
he actually resides. |
| Congressional
Laws |
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| We
believe that the Congress of the U.S. should live under the same
legislative laws as mandated for the general public, i.e., medical
care, retirement pensions, equal opportunities, discrimination, etc. |
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| Individuals
residing illegally in the United States should be excluded from the
U.S. Census for the purpose of redistricting congressional
districts. |
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| We are in
favor of both the State and Federal legislative bodies having a
mandatory study period of at least one week on any bill that comes
out of committee. We feel that in order for a legislator to make an
informed decision on a bill he/she should have time to go over it
before they make a decision and then are held accountable for
his/her vote. |
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| Election
Day Registration |
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| We oppose
election day voter registration. |
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| Elections |
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| In order to
minimize costs, we believe all elections, including presidential
primaries and all state ballot issues, should be submitted to the
voters on a regularly scheduled election day. |
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| We favor the
reopening of filing for candidacy in the event of the death of a
candidate prior to an election. |
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| We favor
changing the statute on voter fraud from a misdemeanor to a felony. |
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| We urge
Congress to prohibit the news media from reporting election results
and exit poll results prior to the closing of all applicable polling
places. |
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| We support
the Electoral College and the certification process. |
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| We believe
funeral homes should be required to notify county clerks when a
person dies so the person can be removed from the voter registration
roster. In addition, when a new resident registers to vote, the
county clerk should be required to notify the county clerk where the
resident moved from so the person is not registered to vote in two
places. |
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| We oppose
changing the U.S. Constitution to allow foreign-born citizens to run
for President of the United States. |
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| We oppose
early voting, but we support no-excuse absentee voting. |
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| Voter
Identification |
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| We support a
voter photo identification card. |
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The Farm Bureau should take a position on
computer voting. Kevin Craig wrote a lawsuit in California that
resulted in "touch-screen" voting machines being
decertified by the Secretary of State. Press
Release here. More discussion here.
Paper ballots, voter-verified, hand counted at the precinct. |