Exerting Influence: A Political Primer for Millennials, Even Those Too Young to Vote
By Jay Hamilton
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This is a book for Bernie Sanders fans who are upset about election 2016 and want to do something about it. It offers an introduction to how our political system works, how to influence voters and legislators, how to find out who to contact, and how to contact them. There is a full appendix with links to the principle websites in each state to look up legislative information and legal statutes.
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Exerting Influence - Jay Hamilton
EXERTING
INFLUENCE
A Political Primer for Millennials
Even Those Too Young to Vote
By Jay Hamilton
© Copyright 2017, 2018
Table of Contents
About the Author
Copyright page
Chapter 1 The Basics of Influencing Politics
Chapter 2 The Issues
Chapter 3 Finding Who to Contact
Chapter 4 How to Contact Them
Chapter 5 What if You Are Too Young to Vote?
Chapter 6 How to Influence Others
Chapter 7 Post Election 2016 Addendum
Chapter 8 Post Parkland Activism
Appendix
More books by Jay Hamilton and Crossroads Publishing of Florida
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jay Hamilton has two decades of experience as a freelance motorsports photojournalist, and has been an elected officer of a sports car club as well as Publicity Director, Newsletter Editor, and other officer positions in two different motorcycle clubs. His work has been published in National Magazines such as Cycle Guide
and Modern Cycle.
He has also had photos published in Cycle
Magazine. In addition, he has worked as parts, service, and warranty claims manager in two small sports car shops, and been a service writer in a much larger dealership, as well as a salesman in several dealerships in three different states. He has full knowledge of the working principles behind these dealerships. As a journalist, he was invited to participate in a workshop held by a large motorcycle organization, to inform motorcyclists how to influence their state and national legislators. He has also been an officer and newsletter editor of several Non-Governmental Organizations including two 501 (c) 3 charities which had occasion to seek assistance in influencing politicians.
Crossroads Publishing of Florida is the coming together of three different names who were all well-known motorsports journalists at the same time and at the same events. We will be doing cookbooks, photography courses, how-to books of all types (including some gardening and off grid stuff), and some fiction as well. We have published over a half dozen E-books, but felt that the circumstances of this election required our attention to this subject.
Check out our website at www.cpubfl.com, where you can find information on all of our books, as well as the live links from this book, if you happen to be reading a printed version without the live links.
Copyright 2016 & 2018 by
CROSSROADS PUBLISHING of FLORIDA
P. O. Box 222
Worthington Springs, FL 32697
www.cpubfl.com
Thank you for purchasing this book! And congratulations on making this the first step into our political system, which has served us fairly well until the new Millennium, but fell flat on its face this year, with outright fraud contributing to the failure of the Bernie Sanders campaign, and fear and ignorance, along with a total lack of anyone qualified among the top Republicans, driving the Trump campaign. It is time that we brought our political system into the 21st Century. To do that, we need to allow a greater number of parties to compete for every office, including the Presidency. And in order to do that, we must do away with the archaic rule that our President must achieve a quorum, you could call it, in the Electoral College, of 50% of all votes cast, PLUS one vote! That simple requirement pretty much forced us into a two-party system. And if whoever wins this upcoming election fails to achieve that goal, the gerrymandered House of Representatives (and my rep does NOT represent my interests in any way, shape, manner or form) gets to choose the next President, and they are limited to the top three vote getters who were in the general election. However, the electoral college is very complex, and if the election gets thrown to the House, and the House and the Senate, which chooses the Vice President, are in a stalemate, the Speaker of the House will become the temporary acting president. Are you ready to say hello to President Paul Ryan? Actually, it will be the NEW House and Senate which make those selections, so if the republic party keeps the House, and the Democrats take the Senate, we could have Trump as President, with Tim Kaine as the Vice President.
The time to act is NOW! But even those too young to vote, can get involved. They need to talk to some older people who are registered but not likely to vote, and get them fired up to vote. Find them transportation to the polls, if necessary, but get them out to vote (or vote by mail), and best it should be for Hillary Clinton, because if Mike Pence or Paul Ryan is in the picture, you can say goodbye to Social Security as we know it. Older people should be an easy sell on that point. In this Post-Parkland edition, we have seen not only attempts to destroy Social Security, but Food Stamp payments to seniors have been decimated, so seniors should be strong Allies.
CHAPTER ONE
The Basics of Influencing Politics
Okay. You’re young, and you admired Bernie Sanders. But he got beaten in the primaries because he either did not recognize the importance of the black vote, or blacks simply never got the message that as a young man, Bernie put his money and his ass on the line to support Martin Luther King and other black activists, and the black community leaders preached that ex-Goldwater conservative campaigner Hillary Clinton was right for blacks, in spite of the omnibus crime bill that she and Bill supported and ran through, which put millions of young blacks into for-profit prisons. And, oh yeah, there was that little matter of outright voter fraud by the Democratic machine that re-registered millions of life-long Democratic Bernie fans