Step 1. Although I am retired on a fixed income, I will not accept any money from anybody. If I am elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 without any money and just a few hundred of my own to pay for mileage to speak before political clubs, I hope it will convince others to run for office without bribes.

Step 2. The media used to give "equal time" for opposing viewpoints. I propose egual time and space for all candidate for each office and will propose this first to the Vermont legislature. If it works here, it should work ail over the U.S. and hopefully will become federal law. Under my proposal, if a print or electronic media runs information on any candidate, paid or not, all competing candidates must be entitled by law to free equal time or space, to level the playing field and to eliminate bribery. I believe the media owe us this public service for their public franchise. But is it fair to force media to "donate"' time or space? My proposal gives media two choices: they can refuse candidate ads and avoid the obligation to provide free equal time/space. Or they can charge the first advertiser a multiple to cover for the others. If a display ad used to cost $100 and there are 5 candidates, the first candidate pays $500 and the next 4 publish free. Once the nation is onto the evils of bribocracy, I have no doubt they will support "equal time" as no evil at all. But what about the First Amendment free press guarantee? I do not think the bribocrats can survive in Supreme Court if there is solid support for equal time. Remember the one-person-one-vote (OPOV) decision by the Supremes? Nothing prevents OPOV more effectively than the rich buying their candidate extra voting power.

Step 3. 1 propose mandatory pooling of all campaign financing for each office to level the playing field, so that no candidate can win because of big bribes now called support, donations, contributions, hard & soft money, etc. The U.S. criminal code provides two years penitentiary and big fines for political bribery. The fines should be used exclusively to finance election pools. We don't need campaign finance reform; we need to enforce the anti-bribery criminal code both against candidates and officials, and those who would bribe them.

Step 4. There can be no democracy nor pooling campaign funds nor equal time/space without binding national - referenda. Moreover, major national decisions should be made by the electorate, not the Bohemian Club, a near-secret grouping of about 2500 members, all male, 99% white, all connected to the very rich. About 20% of the members are directors of one or more Fortune 1000 companies, corporate CEOs, current and former top government officials, members of important policy councils and major foundations. The media are excluded except for the owners who manipulate the news. Instead of opinion polls, referenda should set national policy in the public interest. Future TV sets should be equipped with voting buttons for weekly binding national referenda on things like the Kyoto treaty, the nuclear test ban, the Star Wars defense shield, taxation, globalization, hydrogen to replace fossil fuels, etc., not primarily because the nation collectively is more knowledgeable than the Bohemian Club but because America's voters represent the public interest better than the rich and their 2500 representatives. I plan to campaign statewide on these issues for the next three years and win or lose, will raise some issues nobody else has.