Freedom Party: The Presidential Candidate

Name Period Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Part I: The Political Party PAGEREF _Toc513041786 \h 2A.Type of Party PAGEREF _Toc513041787 \h 2B.Party Name and what it stands for PAGEREF _Toc513041788 \h 2C.The Presidential Candidate PAGEREF _Toc513041789 \h 2D.Campaign Platform PAGEREF _Toc513041790 \h 3E.Fundraising Ideas PAGEREF _Toc513041791 \h 5F.The Events to Showcase the Candidate PAGEREF _Toc513041792 \h 6G.Brochure PAGEREF _Toc513041793 \h 6Part II: “Get Out and Vote” PAGEREF _Toc513041794 \h 6A.Theme PAGEREF _Toc513041795 \h 6B.The Actual Campaign PAGEREF _Toc513041796 \h 7C.Press Release, Posters, TV commercial PAGEREF _Toc513041797 \h 7 Freedom Party Part I: The Political Party * Type of Party My “Freedom” party is an ideological party. This is because the party holds a particular set of comprehensive political, economic, and social views and beliefs. Particularly, the freedom party believes that principle is the most important thing. The party believes that elections should not just be for winning but it is the duty of the party to change the lives of people. Even though the party does not have significant representation, it has its own loyalist members who would not change their allegiance. These members know that it is not just about winning elections but standing up for the principles they believe in. * Party Name and what it stands for The choice of the name “Freedom” is based on the belief that there should be no prejudice against anyone. The party believes that every human being should have the freedom to decide upon their fate and their lives. The party believes in morality and that people should do as they like and be tolerant towards the choices that others have made. * The Presidential Candidate The presidential candidate for the party is Mr. Godfrey Jefferson. He has been active in the public limelight, often speaking against what he perceives wrong with the state and fighting for the freedom of all. Whereas others might be too scared to speak about what they perceive as wrong with the government, he has often been one of the most vocal when asking the government to account for how it has spent public money. Additionally, he has been known to rally the people to oppose those bills that are deemed to be mischievous. To the government, he has been like a thorn in the flesh but to the people, he has been like their fighter. Mr. Jefferson is a God fearing family man who has a solid and scandal free live. In his entire political career, he has never been involved in any scandal. In his previous position as the governor, his county was among the best performing. Besides, he promoted the ideologies of the Freedom party of fronting morality and letting people have their freedom while encouraging them to respect the choices of others. He was among the best performing governors and was well loved by the people. * Campaign Platform 1 The Freedom party believes in freedom for all, giving everyone the power to speak freely, act freely, and pursue happiness without restrictions but do so with focus on morality. Currently, the practice of the government has been too stringent on the people. There is a common feeling that the government has been dictating almost every aspect of the lives of the citizens. Therefore, we need to work towards “Reclaiming Our Freedom”. The party recognizes that it is difficult to have absolute freedom; the party will strive to ensure that it channels its goals and obligations towards promoting the freedom of the citizens. The party recognizes that we have a superior constitution that gives people their essential freedom and rights, however; we should do more to ensure that the citizens get more than the essentials. 2 Together with ensuring freedom for all, the party is concerned about several other issues that we will address. First is to ensure that majority of the families receive a tax cut. What the current administration has done is encourage tax cuts for those with higher incomes. This has led to the middle class being taxed the most. We will repeal the tax cuts for those with higher incomes and ensure that the tax burden on the middle class is reduced. The party also hopes to bring more people back to work. Over the last 5 years, several people have lost their jobs. This is a sorry state for the country as the number of people that are jobless has been on the rise. However, within the next four years, we hope to create 3million jobs for the economy and bring back more people to work. Third, in pursuit of better health care, the party will cut the health insurance premium for each household by $2,000 at the end of the first year in office. We note with a lot of regrets that it is becoming harder each passing day for families to get affordable and quality health care. Our party will step in and ensure that people can get health insurance at a relatively low cost. The healthcare system in the country needs a lot of renovation. Therefore, the party promises to have several healthcare reforms that are aimed at ensuring that more people can access quality care. The government is currently spending more on other issues while neglecting healthcare. It is important to ensure that we reduce government spending on other non-trivial matters and focus on promoting quality healthcare. Social security also needs changes. Most people agree that social security needs to be privatized and yet previous governments have done nothing to that effect. These are important issues that our party will seek to address. 3 Our party is not willing to support a number of issues. One of them is to create new taxes. We believe that the tax burden on our citizens is already heavy and having new taxes will only mount to giving them too much burden than they can bear. We would also not pursue to expand the military expenditure because we feel that the amount we are spending now is enough. Therefore, the promise by other parties increase it is illogical and would only amount to wastage of resources. Instead, we would divulge these funds towards improving our road network system which look dilapidated. Additionally, some people have cited our trade practices as unfair; the party position sees this as an overstatement. In essence, we believe that our current trade practices are fair and we would not want to change them for anything in the world. However, we believe we can make it a little more possible for people to trade with some freedom. 4 The two leading parties in this election do not have values that they stand for. Instead, they only hope to win votes from their established support bases. We believe that this is not the way politics should run. Because of lack of ethics and beliefs to guide them, the two parties often do not have the best interest of the citizens at heart. What they care about is usurping each other in every election with no interest of the citizens at heart. They do not believe in extending freedom to the citizens because they think that this will take power from them. To them it is all about being powerful but for as, it is about giving the people the power. 5 Our party is particularly concerned about the rising cost of living. Several families are hardly capable of fending for themselves. Besides, the economy is losing jobs at a faster rate and even several companies that have been known to be economically stable are hardly capable of realizing profits now. At this rate, the economy faces the risk of inflation and unless we have a leadership that is willing to rise above personal needs and think for the wider good of the country we are doomed. That is why the economy needs a leadership that is willing to follow in what they stand for, a party that has what it truly stands for. 6 On foreign policy, our party believes that every country has a right to self-determination and any attempt to colonize any country politically and economically is unwelcome. Therefore, the foreign policy used by any country should encourage the ability of other coun...