Voter Owned Hawai'i: The Reform That Makes All Other Reforms Possible

 


 
 


If not already done, the first thing you can do today is opt-in to our new GetActive email list. Even if you are already receiving email from us, it is vital that you sign up again using our now more-sophisticated database. Giving us your home address and phone number will greatly assist our ongoing organizing and future political action alerts. Being able to say, "I am a constituent in your district" will immediately get your elected official's attention - and this is an election year. Sign up HERE

The second thing you can do right now is to phone both your State Senator and Representative and tell them, "I am a constituent in your district and I encourage you to support the public funding of political campaigns legislation." It's just that simple. Please act today.

If you are not certain exactly who your Hawai`i State Senator and Representative are, you may easily identify them by entering your home address HERE

If you already known your legislator's names, the following two links will take you directly to their contact information:

HOUSE House Information Here

SENATE Senate Information Here


BROCHURES

For a download of the current VOE Hawai`i brochure, click HERE (PDF 71k)

How to Host a House Party (DOC 72k)

Fact Sheet - What is VOE? (PDF 305k)

Fact Sheet - Qualifying (PDF 242k)

Fact Sheet - Will it Work? (PDF 638k)


CAMPAIGN MONIES RESEARCH & DATABASES

FOLLOW THE MONEY
Look up who gives what to YOUR Hawai`i elected officials:
http://www.followthemoney.org/

HAWAI`i STATE ETHICS COMMISSION
Financial Disclosure Statements of Hawai`i Elected officials Organizations Represented by Registered Lobbyists (the BIG money) Registered Lobbyists (Who deliver the BIG money) http://www.hawaii.gov/ethics/noindex/pubrec.htm

HAWAI`I STATE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION
Detailed contributions and expenditures information for YOUR elected officials: Who is getting how much, and from whom? http://www.hawaii.gov/campaign/electedofficials.htm

FOLLOWING THE DOLLARS
Mapping Federal Political Campaign Contributions in Hawai`i & elsewhere: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~markane/i590/contributors.html

OPEN SECRETS
Your Guide To The Money In US Elections http://www.opensecrets.org/
  "While Congress wallows in the ethical swamp where money and politics meet, one more state just found a way out. Voters [in Connecticut] will pay for campaigns, which might be the bargain of the century. They'll save countless dollars doled from public coffers to the favor seekers who fund campaigns now."
-- USA TODAY EDITORIAL

”Public financing is the difference between being able to go out and spend your time talking with voters, meeting with groups, . . . traveling to communities that have been under-represented in the past, as opposed to being on the phone selling tickets to a $250 a plate fundraiser.” -- Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, elected under Arizona's Voter Owned Elections program

“We Clean Elections [Voter Owned Elections] pioneers are a more independent bunch, especially because we’re not worrying about how we’re going to raise the big bucks to win our next race. Lobbyists for special interests tend to spend less time with us, which makes it easier to get through the Capitol halls in time for a vote.” -- Glenn Cummings, & Ed Youngblood, Maine State legislators, elected using Voter Owned Elections