What is Democracy?

    So far we have one DPD candidate running in the 2010 election as the US Congressional Representative of the 7th District of      Wisconsin, Ken Driessen.  He is developing his own web site which will be at: http://wisc7thDPD.org in the near future. We are running   open source Joomla GNU/GPL sites and we welcome candidates from other districts to develop their own sites. To get such a site working is quite a bit of work and a friend of Ken's has been of tremendous help to his efforts in organizing a DPD community and getting his site going. The may be able to help you if you want to run in another district other than Wisconsin 7th or for some other office which a DPD platform would help allow the people to participate. If interested Ken can give you the person's name and you will heave to negotiate his services with him directly. If a candidate is running on a platform that will allow the eligible voters in their district to vote on law and appropriations we will gladly list your name and website on this DPD site.

     Ken Driessen says he first discovered the idea that computers and the Internet could be a vehicle for true democracy where everyone could participate meaningfully  in government in 2000. In fact he put his name up as a candidate for the US Congressional Representative for the 7th District of the State of Wisconsin in 2002 and raised zero dollars! http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/campaigns/wisconsin_politics.asp?cycle=02  That is precisely how much money he plans to raise in the 2010 election .   With the Internet there is no reason that our elected $selected$ representatives should be bought when they could win elections by stating their position on issues and allowing every consituent a chance to do the same.  Many people he has spoken to like the idea of Direct Participatory Democracy. Ken plans to have volunteers pass around and collect 2000 required signatures to get  his name on the ballot regardless of whether or not he accepts money which he vows he will not accept any contributions. He may receive reasonable fees for speaking engagements. He may have volunteers work on perfecting his website so he can allow people to vote and the only time he would vote would be to break a perfect tie. Other that that he will cast a vote for the people which reflects the will of the majority.

     Here in the 7th district we have had the same Representative since 1969. Dave Obey is listed as Democrat but when it comes to funding war and bank bail outs he is more of a bureaucratic Repulicrat. He voted for the Patriot Act, most of the war funding bills, against nationalized universal Health Care, for Banker Bail out bonuses and on and on.  After that said Dave Obey progressive compared to some but he also voted for the right of Israel to defend itself with billions of dollars of weapons each year they give to Israel in your and my names. I'll tell you more as I learn.  For recent Dave Obey voting trends you can go to this govit.com address:  http://www.govit.com/Representative/David%20R._Obey/vote_record