This platform makes so much sense. It’s mind boggling to think of how far away from this most “main stream” candidates are. – Jim
"I'm glad you (Frank Moore) are running for President!
At last, a candidate I can vote for."
Martha Wilson,
Founding Director, Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC
fermez le bush
ouvrez moore!
thanks for the great campaign button and stickers!
they are now proudly displayed here at our office and are next to an image of George Bush on a toothpick that some local person is sticking into piles of dog shit!
best of luck – you’ve got my vote and hanging chad too!
harley
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Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Brooklyn, New York
Members of Berkeley’s The Sweet Nothings proudly wear their Frank Moore For President buttons at the recent taping of Frank’s new cale TV show Going Deep To The Core at Ramen with Frank Moore.
Gerald is an ex-black panther who has a couple of weekly shows on LUVeR. he is also giving LUVeR his music and political library. (A lot of people are giving LUVeR their complete record collections!) – Frank Moore
What Gerald said last night …
We told Gerald about Frank’s interviewing John Sinclair, reminding him of who that was. He was very impressed, and wanted to hear that interview because, he said, Frank always gets to good stuff, and he knows it was a good interview. He loved the endorsement quote from John Sinclair!
We had also printed out Frank’s platform, including the new planks, and showed them to Gerald. The first thing he mentioned was that he thought the copyright patent laws were already supposed to be as Frank was proposing, but as he talked through it, he said he guessed that those laws have been subverted and manipulated by big corporations. Reading the next paragraph, about businesses selling their products in the U.S., he said now that would never get past THEM. They, the corporations, have so much invested in exploiting people in other countries, places where there really is barely a government to speak of to control anything about its work force.
He was saying that ever city is supposed to have one public access channel, but that doesn’t even happen. In Oakland, they tried to pass off Soulbeat as public access, but it really was a commercial station, privately owned and operated, and so really was not community access, like anyone could come in, do a show, say what they wanted … like BTV is real public access. He said he has been thinking about doing stuff on BTV, but TV is so much work! Not as easy as just coming in and doing his radio show on BLR, where it doesn’t matter what he looks like, etc. We said that even TV can be really easy … he could do it the same way he does his radio show, it would just be on TV, like how Democracy Now started …
He really loved “Election Day will be a paid holiday.” He said, now that … that makes sense. We pointed out that Frank was the candidate of the “Just Makes Sense Party”, and he laughed … he said he has been thinking that on some level for a long time, but never said it. He said he was going to have to steal that one … At some point, he said he wanted to use this on his show …
He really liked limiting the bill length to 5 pages … he said he tried to read Bill Clinton’s crime bill when it came out, strategically released after the Oklahoma City bombings … did we know how long it was? 1,000 pages! He couldn’t get through it.
On the marriage plank, he thought the churches should stay out of it, that marriage should be a civil institution. If people want to go to church and have a religious ceremony, that’s fine … but he felt it should be a totally civil thing. He wondered how you would prove that you were eligible to be a “family”?
One of the things he also said was that Frank doing what he does makes him feel like he can really do what he wants to do. If Frank can do all that, he can certainly do what he is dreaming about, which he felt was a great thing about Frank. He said he really liked Frank and everyone and would be spending more time over with you if it wasn’t for those CATS!
I will push for complete public funding for all political campaigns and the banning of political contributions and the use of personal wealth in political campaigns.
The President should have a line veto. But the Congress can over-turn this line veto by a simple majority. Also bills should be limited to 5 pages in length and/or limited to one subject.
An individual taxpayer will be able to direct her taxes to what functions she wants to support. But corporate taxpayers should not have this option.
Every corporation should come up for a renewal every 25 years, at which time it must prove that it has been operating in the public interest. If it fails to do this, it loses its right to exist. Corporations which have existed before this policy will have 10 years before they will have to prove they are worthy.
Government should leave marriage to churches. Instead, any two or more adults who have been living together for at least 2 years should be able to register as a “family.”
MORE TO COME!
In freedom,
Frank Moore
PLATFORM FOR FRANK MOORE’S PRESIDENCY ‘08
I’ll do away with welfare and social security. Instead, every American will receive a minimum income of $1,000 a month. This amount will be tied to the cost of living and will not be taxable.
We will have universal prenatal-to-the-grave health care and universal free education with equal access.
I’ll do away with all tax deductions for over $12,000 income. Instead, there will be a flat tax of 10% on annual income of less than one million dollars for an individual and less than five million dollars for a corporation. But the flat tax will jump to 75% on annual income exceeding these limits.
I’ll cut the military budget by at least half.
Public mass transit will be free, 24/7, and reliable.
All patents and copyrights will expire in 20 years. Inventions, products, etc. which are developed with governmental money and/or public institutions can not be patented.
All businesses selling their products in the U.S. will have to certify that their products were manufactured in accordance with this country’s labor, wage, environmental, and safety laws… that they meet or exceed these….no matter where they were produced.
Each city and each “media market” will have at least two public access channels on radio, broadcast television, cable, AND satellite!
Election day will be a paid holiday.
MORE TO COME!
“Frank Moore is a bad motherfucker and a great Amrican. He’s got my vote!”
– John Sinclair
From: “Frank Moore”
To: “Frank Moore/E-SALON”
Subject: Fw: PLANT A CARROT IN EVERY LAWN
jesse, i’m stealing this for a plank for my platform!
In freedom,
Frank Moore
From: “D. Jesse Beagle”
To: Frank Moore
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 5:28 PM
Subject: PLANT A CARROT IN EVERY LAWN
ONE CARROT AT LEAST
I want to see
one carrot
at least
in every manicured
lawn,
acres and acres
of fertilized
watered lawns
in the USA
put in a garden
and your neighbor
will visit you
“WHAT ‘S WITH THE
ONIONS , THE CARROTS,
THE CABBAGE,
the price of every house
in the block goes down!
I think LAWNS are disgusting
and said so
sculpted blades of grass were
copied
from England’s
estates
and contractors
made people in early
America
make a nice plot of ground
into a
useless stretch of short greens
resembling
a burial plot
where not so much as croquet
is played.
nor golf!
if not a vegetable garden,
plant a small park
rocks, small pines,
pathways, wild flowers,
LAWNS are for your neighbor’s
approval
but who mows the grass?
A FRONT YARD
with vegetables
(anyone can do it out back)
now that’s class!!
(C) 2006 djbeagle
Hey, I’m now second in this poll! If you have voted, thanks! If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?
Vote for me on the July Independent poll at http://thenextprez.blogspot.com!
From: Frank Moore
To: Susan
Subject: Re: Probably oughta take their car keys too.
I value your vote, Susan! Now this may be [r]evolutionary … but I don’t need no podium!
Tell me about yourself.
In freedom,
Frank Moore
From: Susan
To: Frank Moore
Subject: Probably oughta take their car keys too.
Hey Frank –
I’m so glad you had a fantastic birthday! I look forward to such a hooplah on my 60th birthday and plan to start rehearsing for it right away!
I thought I’d send you my vote along with this Garrison Keillor bit so you could enjoy the press of other local politicos.
What color(s) will you paint your podium???
Begin forwarded message:
Probably oughta take their car keys too.
People who live in mud huts should not throw mud, especially if it comesfrom their own roofs. As Scripture says, don’t point to the speck in your neighbor’s eye when you have a piece of kindling in your own.
I see by the papers that the Republicans want to make an issue of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be speaker of the House? Will the lectern be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record ofg overnment lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November.
Running against Pelosi, a woman who comes from a district where there are known gay persons, is a nice trick, but it does draw attention to the large, shambling galoot who is House speaker now, Tom DeLay’s enabler for years, a man who, judging by his public mutterances, is about as smart as most high school wrestling coaches. For the past year, Dennis Hastert has been two heartbeats from the presidency. He is a man who seems content just to have a car and driver and three square meals a day. He has succeeded in turning Congress into a branch of the executive branch. If Mr. Hastert becomes the poster boy for the Republican Party, this does not speak well for them as the Party of Ideas.
People who want to take a swing at San Francisco should think twice. Yes, the Irish coffee at Fisherman’s Wharf is overpriced, and the bus tour of Haight-Ashbury is disappointing (Where are the hippies?), but the Bay Area is the cradle of the computer and software industry, which continues to create jobs for our children. The iPod was not developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas. There may be a reason for this. Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous. Creativity is a key to economic progress. Authoritarianism is stifling.
I don’t believe that Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard were gay, but what’s important is: In San Francisco, it doesn’t matter so much. When the cultural Sturmbannfuhrers try to marshal everyone into straight lines, it has consequences for the economic future of this country.
Meanwhile, the Current Occupant goes on impersonating a president. Somewherein the quiet, leafy recesses of the Bush family, somebody is thinking, “Wrong son. Should’ve tried the smart one.” Five years in office and he doesn’t have a grip on it yet. You stand him up next to British PrimeMinister Tony Blair at a news conference and the comparison is not kind to Our Guy. Historians are starting to place him at or near the bottom of the list. And one of the basic assumptions of American culture is falling apart: the competence of Republicans.
You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank. They might be lousy tippers, act snooty, talk through their noses, wear spats and splash mud on you as they race their Pierce-Arrows through the village, but you knew they could do the math. To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz. So here we are at an uneasy point in our history, mired in a costly war, a supine Congress granting absolute power to a president who seems to get smaller and dimmer, and the best the Republicans can offer is San Franciscophobia? This is beyond pitiful. This is violently stupid.
It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will screech, they will wave their canes at you and call you all sorts of names, but you have to do what you have to do.
–Garrison Keillor–