Qualifying Fee Hike for Louisiana Candidates.

it's to keep kooks like you from wasting our time and resources putting themselves on the ballot in races where they can't possibly win, you should probably do some self reflection and find something meaningful to do with your life, here's a hint this aint it.

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it's to keep kooks like you from wasting our time and resources putting themselves on the ballot in races where they can't possibly win, you should probably do some self reflection and find something meaningful to do with your life, here's a hint this aint it.

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I agree


We need to make sure that Bill Cassidy is the only one on the ballot for senate because he’s the only one that will stand up against trumps dictatorship and believes that trans women are women and that no human is illegal

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Today its $5,000...who's to say next election cycle it's not $25,000? It's a money screening process to keep whoever the political machine wants off of the ballot. They no longer want ordinary citizens or grass roots candidates to be able to run for certain seats.

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here's the thing jethrine, if he can't raise 5k to get on the ballot what makes you think he could possibly raise 38mm dollars that john kennedy spent on his last senate race.

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dickkellog

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Your name suits you well asswipe.

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if he can't raise 5k to get on the ballot what makes you think he could possibly raise 38mm dollars that john kennedy spent on his last senate race

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That's is everything wrong with politics nowadays. And how we get stuck with "representatives" who represent none of what we the people want. They only serve to fleece the process and enrich themselves, their lobbies and their donors.

And how is having a candidate who may not win on the ballot wasting your time and resources anyway? I guess you'd prefer having only one name on the ballot like some dictatorship.

I'd prefer my representative to be an ordinary person who is not beholden to people who gave him money to get elected. Perhaps even one that stands behind a set of ideals that his constituent majority also believe in.

This is the way that the founders intended this representative government to function. Not the abomination that we are stuck with now because of useful idiots like you.

I'm absolutely positive that the OP will be able to meet the financial qualification requirements to run as he wants under the newly imposed fee schedule.

It's the principle of the legislative changes that he is raising awareness about. Along with the size of the increase in the fee schedule that will limit certain candidates from running in the future as well as the increased time that one must qualify ahead of time in comparison to past deadlines closer to the election date.

I, for one, don't care if a candidate has a pot to piss in if his political intentions, motivations and subsequent actions are to do the best job representing the interests and values of John Q Taxpayer and follows through on that pledge once he reaches office.

Your reading comprehension skills absolutely suck. You can't get past the first half of a sentence. If you could then you could get to the substance of the post but alas your intelligence fails you.

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person who is not beholden to people who gave him money to get elected

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one that stands behind a set of ideals that his constituent majority also believe in

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No comments on this stuff just generalizations and shitting on your fellow citizens because you are better than everyone else.

Since you support this new legislation so wholeheartedly, why don't you get your elected official to write a bill that would allow the state to charge a $50 fee for each voter to simply cast a ballot in future elections.

Both this newly enacted fee schedule and such a ballot tax would achieve the same goals of ensuring that only certain candidates can run and win elections. It's absolutely the direction that we as a nation are headed.

I would personally be happy with going back to a system where only property owners have the right to vote. It along with more morally just office holders, would fix some of the current issues we face immediately should such a change be enforced. It could effectively eliminate entitlements and in time solve our future debt default issues if our government had the balls to enforce the laws passed afterwards.