May 15, 2021
I have been reaching out to everyone I know and talking with about 30 people a day. A few interested strangers, several printers, billboard firms, media advertising departments and disturbingly some seemingly very weird people have been reaching out to me. So far the upsetting things are far outweighed by the great insights people are giving me. There really is something to learn from everyone.
A lot of people sense there is something wrong with the way big money is being used to influence the way people vote. I really don’t like calling this quest a campaign. We are not fighting. We are speaking up. Just because everyone else, it seems, treats elections like a war does not mean that that is right.
Our top goal is to demonstrate we do not need big money to win. The way big money influences elections has always been disgusting but now it is out of hand. There is not time to wait for some future government to bring in more tighter restrictions to try and make things fair. We can use our own self control to limit the anti-democratic power of money in our elections.
It’s not nice to disappoint people by turning down an offer of a gift but at the same time it is delightful fun to explain there is a super good reason for refusing to accept monetary donations intended to support my candidacy. That’s what happened twice yesterday. Two millionaires I happen to know, saw it mentioned on Global News that I am running for Mayor and phoned to offer donations. Thank you Global News.
I am looking forward to when Global reports on the important difference between our Quest and the other Campaigns. In some war campaigns they take no prisoners . In our quest we take no monetary donations.
Although it is only one part of my diverse work experience, most of you know I have spent thousands and thousands of hours busking on the street. I have seen and talked to a lot of different Edmontonians. On the street I talk to every kind of person including pan handlers. Buskers are different from pan handlers in that we never ask for money other than we have our guitar case open. Pan Handlers ask. They give you a story and ask.
Now not to try and belittle other candidates running for office, but they are very much like panhandlers. They give you a story and ask you for a donation. Sort of hard to imagine that when they are elected that they would not be governing to please those who funded them. And not hard to imagine that the concerns of those who cannot afford to donate become less important.
I want to feel equally responsible to govern for each and everyone.
All I am asking is for you to vote for me and to please tell your friends to check out our platform and notice how it differs from the stories being sold by the other candidates.
So once again lets make a point of talking about this with our friends and encourage them to talk to their friends.
To that end we are taking a survey to track where the message is spreading. Many of you have already taken this survey but if you want, take it again a few times in the next months please.
Survey Re: Breezy For Mayor
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Survey Re: Breezy For Mayor
Let’s look at this as a big part of an emergency response to not only a pandemic but to an even more dire emergency the climate emergency.
Big money in politics stands in the way of making an appropriate emergency response. The response is simple and boils down to just two words — burn less. Big money through its advertising funded media keeps giving us a message that boils down to just two words — Buy More. Buy more means more burning. What could possible go wrong? We are constantly being pushed to buy more and therefore burn more.
Thank you again everyone. Next month lets talk about a voter incentive program again. What if every voter was handed $1,000 cash when they cast their ballot? In Australia they fine you if you don’t vote. Maybe $1,000 is too much. Some people say $5. A California study showed that a $50 incentive boosted turnout at the poles and a $100 incentive boosted it even more. Not only that the study showed that when people knew ahead of time that they were going to vote because there was a cash incentive, they took time to become engaged and familiarize themselves with the candidates they might choose to vote for. We can understand paying out CERB as a good social investment during a pandemic. It will be a good social investment to pay BUCKS FOR BALLOTS. Why shouldn’t we pay voters for doing the thing that is so fundamentally important for democracy.
