Campaign Support Committee
The GEP collaborating with candidates to create a general committee that will take donations and support any political campaign that agrees to run a completely volunteer-based no-budget campaign. This will take money out of the equation, and allow the political process to be based on ideas and actual people. It would be great for volunteer campaigns to go it on their own, but the need for some expenses to be paid for is important.
Currently the GEP is collecting donations to help start this committee, but once it is created it must be its own independent committee as it needs to be non-partisan and not be influenced by individual campaigns or politically active committees.
The focus of this committee will be very simple. To create and distribute information to educate the public about the candidates and campaigns that are running only with volunteers and no budget. Additionally this committee will encourage people to run for office and create a simple path for people to run without having to fundraise tons of money and take tons of time out of there normal lives.
Because there is already an active campaign that wishes to utilize the support of this committee, it is important to start it as soon as possible. Because candidates will not be allowed to be involved in the financial decisions of this committee to insure that there is no conflict of interest, it is very important to find people who are willing to help start this committee who don’t want to run for office. It is a low level commitment, but if you are interested, please do contact GEP right away. Although this committee is going to be created to support volunteer campaigns, the committee itself is not going to be volunteer based, and can have a paid staff if it fundraises enough money.
