Friends,

There are some folks who don’t trust any politicians. None of them. Zero.

Great — let’s start there.

Let’s say you’re that person. You have zero trust in the whole political system and anyone involved in it, including me.

BUT you still care enough to vote. You don’t trust these politicians, but you’re still going to choose between them at the ballot box.

How do you do that? What should you be looking for, given how little trust you have in all of them?

My bet is it’s an agenda that works to increase your power as a voter.

And here are the two biggest ways to do that:

1. End gerrymandering. Politicians should not have the power to draw their own districts, because they cheat. They use that power to make you irrelevant by drawing safe seats so they don’t have to listen to you. You should take that power away from them.
    
2. Major campaign finance reform. Politicians should not have the power to raise millions of dollars in dark money that drowns out your voice and makes them beholden to a whole set of interests other than yours. You should take that power away from them.

And this point is just as important:

Any politician who isn’t in favor of ending gerrymandering or major campaign finance reform can only have that position for one reason, and that’s corruption.

Because there is no legitimate reason to oppose those reforms. There’s no good argument on the other side. That’s why you don’t see politicians on TV defending gerrymandering — there’s nothing to defend. It’s obviously wrong.

So if you have zero trust in any of us — including me — then act on it. Only support candidates who specifically commit to giving you more power as a voter, and listen carefully for where they stand on those two issues because it will tell you a lot about their intentions.

This election is a crucial opportunity to strengthen our democracy, and I’m asking for your support to get it done. Please support a campaign that tells you exactly how and why it is committed to giving voters more power over politicians. If you can chip in today, it would make a big difference.

Best,
Jeff

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P.S. — By the way, I’m not new to this. The first bill I ever filed in the state Senate was to end gerrymandering (see below). If elected to Congress, I will immediately support legislation to end gerrymandering nationwide, as well as other pro-voter legislation (like the John Lewis Voting Rights Act) that is long overdue.