Brian Rudnick for City Council- and Beyond

Rudnick Supports Committee of Seventy Ethics Agenda and proposes the addition of three more reform items

I wholeheartedly support the 22 items on the Committee of Seventy Ethics Agenda because these proposals work against nepotism, payoffs, and the like and because they advance the Green Party principles of active democracy, governmental transparency, fairness and social justice.

To the agenda I would like to add

1. Introduce legislation for 3 term limit for City Council
2. Introduce legislation to change the minimum age to serve on Council or as Mayor from 25 to 21
3. Introduce legislation for runoff elections whenever the highest vote-getter in any election does not receive a majority of the votes.

I am asking the Committee of Seventy to add these 3 to the 22 in place for a nice round 25 items!  The Committee of Seventy Ethics Agenda follows:

Rudnick Debates Campaign Finance With Council Candidates

"The  current campaign finance law might offer a temporary solution but  nothing can constitutionally stop an independently wealthy candidate from spending money on his or her own race.  This is true even if we moved toward  a  partially or publicly funded  campaign finance system- the  deep  pocket  candidate can simply opt out.   There are no  quick fixes to  weaknesses in the present law; once we plug one loophole,lawyers will find another one. I know- I'm a lawyer.  As long as  our federal  and state laws allow for  the accumulation of extraordinary wealth amidst the most abject poverty in our country, money will find its way into the political system.  What  voters need to do is to examine the character of the candidates because an  unethical one will  find ways around  the  most well crafted  legislation" Brian Rudnick, in picture second from right,  debating Democratic Party City Council Candidates, from left to right, at-large  Candidate Marc Stier  and 8th  District   Candidates Cindy Bass, Irv Ackelsberg and, to Rudnick's right Greg  Paulmier. Chestnut Hill Libary, Pizza and Politics Forum, organized by Peter Javsicas.