This is now a Campaign for the 2024 Presidential Election. We need your Support.

 Our campaign For The American People started in 1950 with three main issues, all of which still urgently need to be resolved today. Since the start of Our Campaign other issues are added to our agenda based completely on their importance to ALL of The American People. Our Campaign is an On-Going Campaign which will continue for many years into the future.

 The original issues which started Our Campaign evolved from a discussion I had with my father in 1950 shortly after our family moved from California to Ann Arbor Michigan. Those original issues are:

 Issue #1). Tax Reform, which will reform the current Tax System, which is based almost exclusively on Taxing Income which consists of only about 1/3 of the United States Economy (and taxes the Richest People little or nothing) and pays for everything the United States Government spends. My father told me that the original purpose of the Income Tax was that the Rich People would pay most of the Tax and the rest of The American People would pay very little or nothing. Today the Income Tax has been structured so that exactly the opposite is true. Today the Rich People have bought the Government of Our Country and everyone except the Rich People pay most of the Taxes.

 Over many years I have considered in detail all of the Tax options which have been proposed. I have found that all of them Tax a small part of the Economy and for the most part the Rich people pay little or nothing, like Mr. Trump has done for all of his life.

 When I studied Economics at Western Michigan University I learned that the only real solution is to Tax the entire Economy at a low fair rate where the Rich People are required to pay their fair share. I am always interested in better solutions so if you have one please tell me about your ideas.

 The largest Tax on everyone is Inflation. For example my apartment in 1972 cost $1,200 per year. The exact same apartment in 2012 cost $12,000 per year. In 1972 my salary per year was less than $5,000, it would not be possible to live on that today. That is the Tax of Inflation.

 Issue #2). Health Care. When I talked with my father he was a full time student with a full time job to suppot his family. Even then he had difficulty paying for the good health care which our family required. The American People need a real National Health Care System which is not run by the Insurance Companies and the Health Care Industry. All people need good Health Care, regardless of their personal circumstances. The United States is the only country in the world where the Health Care System is run entirely by and for the extremely rich Health Care, and Insurance Industries.

 Even with the so-called Affordable Health Care Act, Health Care is still largely un-affordable and inaccessible unless it is provided by an employer. Many employers do not provide Health Care to their employees, and those who do pay the employees less so that they can suply this coverage. No employer should need to decide what Health Care they will allow their employees to have.

 A real National Health Care System will provide the Health Care which ALL of The American People require removing the need for employers to provide this service, and letting employers concentrate on their business and not on Health Care of their Employees. A real National Health Care System will decrease Vehicle Insurance coasts since Insurance Companies will no longer be involved in covering Health Care issues.

 Issue #3). Elections (Primarily Presidential Elections). The people who wrote the documents founding The United States of America did their bestjob they could with the information which was available to them in the 1700’s. There is no way they could have imagined how what they proposed work in today’s world of the Internet and Extreme Partisanship.

 Our first, and so-far only Non-Partisan President, George Washington, warned The American People that Excess Partisanship would destroy Our Country, as it is doing today. The Election System they designed in the 1700’s resulted in the extremely undemocratic and highly Partisan government we have today, which is run exclusively by and for The Party and NOT by and for The American People as they intended it to be run. The main thing which would start to correct this problem is for Our Country to start to have real democratically run Non-Partisan Elections which are not run exclusively by and for The Party, where everyone has a totally equal opportunity to be elected regardless of whether they are associated with The Party. It is long past time when ALL Presidents should be Non-Partisan. The Judicial System which is now highly Partisan can not function properly when it is even slightly Partisan.

 Our Campaign For The American People started in 1950 as the result of a discussion I had with my father on these issues since then Our Campaign has addressed many other issues, however; these issues are still unresolved and are still the primary issues of Our Campaign.

 After I discussed Our Campaign with John Fitzgerald Kennedy, soon to become President Kennedy, in 1960 he told me to turn it into a Presidential Campaign. And he told me that I “Should become President when I am old enough”. Since I have worked for The Executive Branch of The United States Government after graduating from College, where the Hatch Act legally prohibits participation in Partisan Politics, I was not able to follow President Kennedy’s instructions until I retired from The United States Government.

Our Campaign For The American People is an Official Federal Election Commission Registered On-Going Non-Partisan Presidential Campaign and Our Campaign will continue until it is completely successful for ALL of The American People. I have been a dedicated Public Servant all of my life. Real Public Service is only about doing what is best for ALL of The American People, it is never about who is in power. A real public Servant will always treat everyone with the same respect and do their best to represent the interests of ALL people equally. If you do not follow that simple guideline you are not really a Public Servant and you should find a vocation which is more appropriate for your way of thinking.

All Contributions to Our Campaign will be used ONLY in the Support of Our Campaign For The American People.

Best regards,

Dwight S. Smith

The Only Ongoing Nonpartisan Presidential Campaign http://myspace.com/dwightstanfordsmith 

E-Mail: FirstNonPartisanPresidentOfUSA@juno.com

Post Office Box 1960, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1960


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April 12, 2017

Why does a Presidential Candidate need to solicit support for many years?

Why does a Presidential Candidate need to solicit support for many years?

I apologize for the length of this note, however; some explanation and examples are helpful in this discussion.  I hope this makes it clear why Our Campaign needs your Support (of ALL kinds) now and for as long as you can give it so that we can succeed for ALL of The American People.

First I should mention that since I have worked for The United States Government for over 30 years it has been illegal (that it would violate the “Hatch Act”) for me to do more than campaign on issues and work (as I always have since 1950) for the kind of constructive change which the Professional Politicians will never offer or actually give to The American People.  I therefore could not legally do any of the things required to participate directly in ANY Presidential Campaign, or other political campaign, until I retired from the Government of Our Country.  Now that I have officially “retired”, from my position with the Government, I can both legally Campaign and run as a Candidate for The President of The United States, as many people have continually told me I should do.

Nearly all of the people who I have talked with, even those who have tried to run for President on AmericansElect.org (in 2012) and before and after that, even though they have all probably studied American Government in school have absolutely ZERO idea what is required for everyone (Except candidates selected by The Democratic and Republican Party) to do in order to be on the ballot, or be a “Write-In” Candidate, for President of The United States, and actually get the votes for their Presidential Campaign counted in all of the States.  The candidates selected by The Democratic and Republican Party have to do practically NOTHING and the process cost those candidates practically nothing, because The Democratic and Republican Party have OWNED The Government of The United States for many years and passed laws which exempt them (The Democratic and Republican Party) from the extremely laborious and expensive process which they have set up to require ALL other Presidential Candidates, by law, to complete.

The Presidential Election is NOT a National Election, as it should be. The actual process is completely different for each State.  A very small number of States require very little for candidates who are not selected by The Democratic and Republican Party.  Other States make it as difficult and expensive as legally, and illegally, possible for any candidates not selected by The Democratic and Republican Party to be on the ballot or even get their votes counted.  I understand at this writing that it is still not legal in some states to be on the Ballot, or be a “Write-In”, as a Presidential Candidate unless you first get permission from The Democratic and Republican Party.  When working on my 2008 Presidential Campaign (which was the first Presidential Election I could legally run in, since I am now no longer prohibited from doing so by The Hatch Act) I accumulated much of the information which would be required just to start to run as a Presidential Candidate in all of the States.  If I printed it all out completely it would take up several very large printed volumes, and that is just part of the “instructions” for each State.

Now that I have given the background, the answer to the question I posed in the title of this note should be easy to guess.  Since nobody except candidates selected by The Democratic and Republican Party have the massive Party “Infrastructure” in all of the states to do all of the things that The Democratic and Republican Party has made necessary for all of the other Candidates, all of the other Candidates must campaign for however long that it is required to find the people in each state which will be required to meet the massive requirement which each State requires for each Presidential Candidate to be approved to even get their votes counted in each States.  That process can quite literally take many years and it must be ready to be completed in the relatively short time-span required by the laws established by The Democratic and Republican Party in the year of the Presidential Election.  What I am saying here is in order to succeed Our Campaign really needs the actual support of at least some people in every State.

AmericansElect.org (a Non-Partisan organization) spent millions of dollars and traveled all over The United States in a large Interstate Bus with a “wrap” (which can still be seen on the (http://www.americanselect.org) Web Site.  That is something that nobody except an extremely rich person could afford to even try to do.  I am not rich.  During the AmericansElect.org bus tour in 2012 they found that “In order to obtain ballot access nationwide, some states' guidelines required Americans Elect to register as a political party.[8] For the 2012 elections, Americans Elect succeeded in ballot access status in 29 states: Alabama,Alaska,[9] Arizona,[9]Arkansas,[10] California,[11][12] Colorado,[13] Florida,[14]Hawaii,[15] Kansas,[9] Maine,[16] MarylandMichigan,[14] Mississippi,[17]Montana,[18] Nebraska,[19] Nevada,[9] New Mexico,[20] North Carolina,[21] North DakotaOhio,[22] Oklahoma,[23] OregonRhode Island,[24] South Carolina,South DakotaUtah,[25] Vermont,[26] Wisconsin[27] and Wyoming.[28]

(The above and below quotes are from the AmericansElect Wikipedia Web Page. Several aspects of the AmericansElect.org process were flawed to the EXTREME which should be very obvious and contributed to the result which I have copied from Wikipedia which follows, and they, therefore; rather than fixing the problems canceled their participation in the entire 2012 Presidential Election. As an actual participant in the AmericansElect.org the flaws were extremely obvious to me, and should have been obvious to everyone who was paying any attention, especially the management of the project.)

“However, on May 1, 2012, the first primary ballot (which had been scheduled for May 8) was cancelled, because no candidate had garnered sufficient support clicks to qualify for the ballot.[35] Voting was then rescheduled to begin on May 15, 2012.[35] However, with no candidate qualifying for the ballot to be held on that date, the primary was pushed off again.[36] On May 17, the organization issued a statement that it was ending its nomination process because no candidate had achieved the required amount of support to qualify for its primary ballot.[37]

In July 2012, the remaining board members decided to officially end Americans Elect's presidential efforts and withdrew its name from most state ballots.[38]

The Americans Elect website is still accessible, but has not been updated since 2012.

As of September 2015, Americans Elect has made no attempt to revive its process for the 2016 presidential election, despite widespread dissatisfaction with the two major parties.”

AmericansElect.org, so-far, is NOT a success story but, in their failure, a lesson about what is necessary to succeed, and a lesson to learn from their mistakes.

I give the AmericanElect.org experience as an example of why someone who is not as rich as the founders of AmericansElect.org must work for YEARS, as I have done (and will continue to do until we are successful) with Our Campaign for the American People, to actually win The Presidential Election.  When we have actually succeeded we will, at the very least, have a much better platform to work from to start to correct many of the problems which The Democratic and Republican Party have very deliberately and selfishly created entirely for their benefit, and that of their rich supporters, and to the extreme detriment of the interests of ALL of The American People in the Presidential Election Process, and in many other ways. 

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