Dean Invites Every American To Join Democrats In Calling for Ethics Reform

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Dean Invites Every American To Join Democrats In Calling for Ethics Reform

Washington, DC - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern and Democratic leaders from across the Ohio state for a news conference at the Ohio Statehouse to unveil the national Democratic honest leadership reform agenda. Dean urged the American people to join Democrats in demanding honest leadership and hold leaders accountable to the people by signing the national Honest Leadership Petition at www.democrats.org/Honesty.

Today's news conference coincided with the unveiling of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, a package of reforms being introduced in Washington by the Democratic leadership in Congress. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act would end Republican culture of corruption by:


Closing the revolving door between lawmakers and lobbyists by doubling the amount of time lawmakers and staffers must wait before lobbying Congress;


Prohibiting the receipt of gifts, including meals, entertainment and travel, from lobbyists;



Clamping down on "pay-to-play" systems like the one set up by lobbyists like Jack Abramoff; and



Ending efforts like the "K Street Project," which Republicans created to force corporations and lobbying firms to hire Republicans in exchange for political access.


"Scandal-plagued Republican super lobbyist Jack Abramoff may be the public face of the Republican Party's culture of corruption, but Abramoff is just the tip of the iceberg," said Dean. "The Republican Party has built a system where money talks, but ordinary people have no voice. Wealthy special interests buy access and get results on any issue, no matter the public interest.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/01/dean_kicks_off.php

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1. Done, but...

the link to the petition isn't quite right-I think it is because you got the period at the end of the sentence in the link.