State Affairs Committee Hearing on Fair Elections Next Friday: Feb 2 at 8 AM, 4th Floor Senate
Calvin Leman comments next:
If you can go to the meeting, Roger Sherman says
If people need places to
stay over night we can probably find people for them to stay with.
If you can't attend the hearing, you and your friends can sign a petition that says you want Fair Elections. I will take that petition to the hearing for you. Below I have a sample petition. If I can say that I am representing the 300 people who signed these petitions that I have in my hand, I might get the attention of the State Affairs Committee, when I testify. Please get in touch with me for more information. You can bring your signed petition to the Library, bring it to me at 516 Hope Avenue in Salmon (behind Service Grocery), fax it to me at 208-756-4104, call me at 208-756-4104 and ask me to come and get it from you, or come to my house and I will help you write a petition. Please tell me if I can interest anybody else in Fair Elections.
Our participation at this meeting may be the only chance for Fair Elections. Fair Elections bills S 1037 and S 1038 may die in the committee if the hearing does not change the situation that exists now. Curt McKenzie, chair, is allowing one week for us to get to the meeting. He could have scheduled the hearing the day before. I don't know how fond Curt McKenzie is of Fair Elections. He is doing the right thing by allowing public testimony and a weeks notice.
Voters: You can cut an paste this petition or you can write your own petition.
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To: Senate State Affairs Committee |
Chair
Curt McKenzie District 12
District 3
Clint Stennett District 25 |
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From: Idaho Voters |
List your names here. |
We ask the Senate State Affairs Committee to support the Fair Elections Bill S 1037 and to support the Financial Disclosure Bill S 1038. We ask that you send this bill to the Senate.
Message from David Langhorst, sponsor of S 1037 Fair Elections bill.
David
Message 1 from Roger Sherman
Please start getting the word out. The public hearing on
SB1037 will be held next Friday, February 2nd at 8 a.m. We need a lot of people
there and some strong people to testify.
If people need places to stay over night
we can probably find people for them to stay with. this is exciting!
Roger
Message 2 from Roger Sherman
Next Friday, Groundhog Day, the first hearing EVER on a bill to provide for
public financing of elections will be held at 8 a.m. at
the Senate State Affairs Committee. The Idaho Fair Elections Act (S1037)
is modeled after successful election reform in Maine and Arizona. I encourage
you to check out the video at the link below. It is 14 minutes long and really
tells the story of why Fair and Clean elections are so important.
http://www.publicampaign.org/video
Let me know if you are interested in testifying. This
year, almost $5 million dollars was spent in Idaho on the Governor's race.
Isn't enough enough?
At the same time there will be a hearing on a bill to require personal financial
disclosure for Idaho Legislators. Idaho is one of only 3 states that requires
no disclosure. Without disclosure it is almost impossible to determine whether
a legislator has a conflict of interest.
Please plan to come to the hearing and let me know if you plan to testify.
Roger Sherman
UVI
From the Legislature Website:
Reports of Standing Committees
Each committee to which a bill is referred conducts a study of all information that may help the committee determine the scope and effect of the proposed law. Studies may include research, hearings, expert testimony, and statements of interested parties. A bill may be reported out of committee with one of the following recommendations:
1. Do pass.
2. Without recommendation.
3. To be placed on General Orders for Amendment.
4. Do not pass. (Bills are seldom released from committee with this recommendation.)
5. Withdrawn with the privilege of introducing another bill.
6. Referred to another standing committee.
If a committee reports a bill out and does not recommend that the bill be amended or other action to keep it from going to the floor, the bill is then placed on second reading.
Many bills are not reported out by committees and "die in committee." Special rules of the House apply when the committee does not desire to report out a bill for consideration by the entire House.
Idaho Legislature
Here is the legislature website: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/
It happened on January 19, 2007: The Idaho Fair Elections bill in the Senate State Affairs Committee is SENATE BILL NO. 1037.
You can read it at:
This is S 1038 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE
S1038........by STENNETT, LANGHORST, KELLY, BURKETT, MALEPEAI, WERK, BILYEU
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS - Adds to existing law relating to
financial disclosure statements for public officers and candidates; to
provide a duty to file financial disclosure statements by public officers
and candidates; to provide contents and exceptions; to provide application;
to provide for duties of the Secretary of State; and to provide criminal
and civil penalties.
FISCAL IMPACT
Implementation of this law will require approximately $45,000
from the General Fund to defray additional staff costs, according
to an estimate by the office of Idaho's Secretary of State.
First decision on Idaho Fair Elections bill will be in the Senate State Affairs Committee:
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State Affairs
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Chair
Curt McKenzie District 12 |
Clint
Stennett District 25 |
At this link you can email all members of the committee:
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/about/contactallcommitteemembersform.cfm?ID=SSTA
At this link you can find all Senators and Representatives:
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/howtocontactlegislators.htm
If you want to have a Fair Elections Act in Idaho, you need to tell all Senators on the State Affairs Committee that you want a discussion of the bill.
Click here for G. Calvin Mackenzie's analysis of 10 years of Clean Elections in Maine.
