Here's M'First Campaign Flyer

Vote for the Penniless;
Get Representation Money Can't Buy. 

   Okay, I'm not penniless. But my campaign is much poorer than those of the other two House District 44 candidates, Tim Cosgrove and Christy Achziger. I have chosen to not accept political contributions. As a result, I will not have the lawn signs and mailers (though robocalls are so inexpensive, I might use them) the other candidates have. The Beatles might have been persuaded money could not buy them love, but they should have tried running for public office without money. Money does buy votes. Being that as it may, I do not think it healthy that some of the same people who donate money turn up after the election seeking legislation, favors, if you will. I think of an out-of-state contractor who gave money to a candidate. Now, why would a person donate to a candidate in another state, to a person he didn't personally know, unless he hoped for a return on his investment? The candidate defended the system, saying there was nothing quid pro quo going on. I say, it remains wrong. This is your opportunity, should you wish to snap it up, to elect someone who will be every bit as good of a representative as the other two, yet who won't leave open the chance a political contributor will come knocking for a favor down the line, after the election.  I won't take that money, won't leave open the dilemma of whether the gift might influence my voting in the Legislature. Oh, and did I say an independent has never been elected to the Utah Legislature? In a day of great political rancor, why not make this the first time? Make your vote one that helps change history. George Washington warned against political parties, anyway. Whatever reason you might see for voting for the other candidates, these two causes are every bit as worthy. Vote for John Jackson, because ending influence from campaign contributions is important enough to elect someone who will not accept them, and because ending partisan politics is worth electing someone not affiliated with either party.

The Midnight Campaign of JOHN JACKSON

   Politicians are always scary, so it's appropriate the Halloween and election seasons coincide. So, I'll give my campaign a Halloween twist, too. Much of my campaigning will be during the night, as I frantically attempt to get out these scraps of paper before the bewitching hour. No lawn signs, no mailers? A candidate who is overlooked because he does not belong to the two major parties? (I got a phone call from a polling place, asking whether I was going to vote for Achziger or Cosgrove and not even mentioning me as a candidate.) In a way, I am the invisible one of the three -- a ghost of candidate. In the spirit of Halloween, vote for the ghost.

Call 1-801-566-4023 or visit the website newsasnewstravelsfast.blogspot.com

If You Write in Anyone You Want, Your Vote Won't Count

You Cannot Vote for Just Anyone You Want

You cannot vote for just anyone you like in Utah. Nope, can't do it. Your vote won't count.

You can only vote for candidates registered with the state. If you write in someone's name, your vote will be trashed. It won't count unless that person is registered as a write-in candidate.

Are we to be told who we can and cannot vote for? Are we to cast our vote only from a list of candidates approved by the state?

I guess I do think this is wrong. A small thing, in ways, but in principle, it is a big deal. Isn't voting for whomever we choose a basic American right? Somehow, I assumed we've had this right ever since Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and a few others sat down and drafted the documents making this the free-est nation on earth.

I say, change the law. This is America. We deserve not only the right to vote, but the right to vote for anyone we choose.

Day 1 Advertisement Still Haunts Me

I expect I'll vote for Mitt, but among the things making me uneasy is that oft-mentioned thought that on the first day, he will issue an order to kill Obamacare.

Not that I don't want Obamacare repealed. I do. But, not by executive order. Would someone, some choice journalist, get Obama to define if that is what he meant. Because if it is, I'm not sure I want to vote for him.

Government by executive order is not the government I signed on with, not the one our nation signed on with back when the Constitution came out.

Let's go back to that advertisement from Romney, back in May.

Video text: "What would a Romney presidency be like?"
Voiceover: "What would a Romney presidency be like?"
Video text: "Day 1"
Voiceover: "Day one, President Romney immediately approves the Keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that Obama blocked."
Voiceover: "President Romney introduces tax cuts and reforms that reward job creators, not punish them."
Voiceover: "President Romney issues order to begin replacing Obamacare with commonsense health care reform."
Voiceover: "That's what a Romney presidency will be like."

Maybe I'm overly fearful, but that does sound like he might be thinking of an executive order to stop Obamacare. Of course, after the ad, the Supreme Court upheld most of the provisions of Obamacare. Responding to that, Romney still said overturning Obamacare would be a day one job, but now he was saying he would "act to repeal" it, which might mean seeking congressional approval of the action. Acting to repeal indicates the setting of a process in motion.

The two quotes I found at from right after the Supreme Court decision were:

"The Supreme Court may have made their decision, but the American people haven't. Day one. Job one. Repeal ObamaCare."


And, “What the Court did not do on its last day in session I will do on my first day if elected President of the United States and that is I will act to repeal Obamacare.”

I'm thinking Romney will go the congressional route, but that ad way back in May still haunts me.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-would-face-tough-road-trying-to-repeal-obamacare-if-elected-president/2012/07/10/gJQAh4nmaW_story_1.html

Jackie Evancho's "To Believe"

Almost unbelievable a little girl could sing with such a practiced, adult-sounding voice, and so beautifully. I thought the song was a cover, and she just imitated someone, but it says the song was written by her uncle. Caught up in the moment of just having heard this, I think to say this is about as notable an achievement as I have ever known, to be able to sing so professionally, and adult-sounding, and gorgeously at such a young age. While it is on YouTube, I doubt this song has been purchased by a record label and released as a single. Who knows, the novelty of a young girl singing this way might give it a chance on the pop charts.
http://www.godvine.com/Jackie-Evancho-s-Unbelievable-Voice-Silences-a-Room-2232.html?fb_action_ids=4344436223329&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

Liberty Should Not Remove Punishments

I do not think that liberty should extend so far as to erase punishments for corruption. We came to an earth where we are free to choose, it is true, but we also came to an earth where there are consequences for corruption. Some of the consequences are natural and some are man-made. Either way, consequences are not evil. Corruption is evil, not punishments for corruption. Lest we confuse what libertarianism does, let us realize it removes not one's ability to take drugs, and to spread pornography, and to prostitute, but only does it remove some of the punishments. Are we to prohibit consequences in the name of providing liberty?

A Definite Underdog

Thursday, I take to the doors, hoping to stir up some votes in a run for House District 44. 

Alas, if I intended to win, I should have been knocking the doors all along. I am an independent, and have decided not to accept campaign donations. Not sure independents get too many, anyway, as some donate to Republican candidates, and others to Democratic candidates.

Nor do I want to spend much, period (not that I have much). I guess it just seems like money deciding elections isn't the ideal way. Would we started a revolution and voted for candidates even though they didn't spend much cash.

A word about my opponents, Tim Cosgrove and Christy Alhziger. Tim is about as personable and likable as a politician can be. In the last election, he took on Shawn Bradley, the former BYU great and NBA player. Shawn was the Republican. Tell me, how does Shawn Bradley, running as a Republican, lose in Utah?

Christy is or has been the Republican chair for Legislative District 44. A fine foe she is, and potentially could defeat Tim.

If her campaign pockets are deep enough. 

This is Prophecy Fulfilled in Our Lifetime

More Jews, by far, are in the United States and Israel than in any other country.

Wikepedia says 5.7 million are in Israel, and 5.3 million in the United States. France is the next highest country, with less than half a million Jewish occupants.

Belonging to a religion that sees America and Israel as gathering points for the house of Israel, I find this significant. Perhaps the day will come when many of them will leave America, for Israel,.I don't know But I do know America is also a gathering place.

I found a website saying 0 percent of the world's Jewish population was in Israel in 1882. By 1900, the percentage was but 1 percent, and by 1939, it was still only 3 percent. In 1948, the year Israel became an official nation, it was still only 6 percent. That more than doubled in the next 7 years, going to 13 percent, and it has climbed in the years since.

Truly, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land is a prophecy being fulfilled in our lifetime.