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Ecology Democracy Party
KEN PENTEL
for Governor
ERIN WALLACE
for Lt. Governor

The Pentel/Wallace campaign for Governor is dedicated to preserving and restoring the Earth as a whole and will establish a more honest form of government that supports proportional representation.

The Ecology Democracy Party will restore a harmonious and sustainable relationship with our natural environment through a structural change in the fundamentals of Minnesota Government by:

• Establishing an ecology-based economy for Minnesota
• Implementing proportional representation for the State House
• Removing Big Money and Corporate Interference in Government

Ken Pentel is a Minnesota native and former Green Party gubernatorial candidate with 11 years of work experience with Greenpeace and 12 years of work experience developing the Minnesota Green Party. Ken is the founding director of the Ecology Democracy Network.

Erin Wallace is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Erin worked with Ken in developing and establishing the Ecology Democracy Network.

Prepared and paid for by:
Ken Pentel for Governor  P.O. Box 3872, Minneapolis, MN 55403  www.kenpentel.org  651-695-....

• Moving Minnesota to an Ecological Economy (see http://tiny.cc/o8nrv)

Issue: We are participating in a growth model economy which is rapidly depleting our ecological systems worldwide that places our future existence at risk. Through this economy, we externalize many of the cost factors such as extinction of species, contamination of our air, water and soil and the spread of diseases and illnesses.
Pentel/Wallace: We will internalize these costs by establishing an ecologically based economy built upon the health of our ecosystems, inherently strengthening the value of our dollar. We will establish an ecological health indicator to measure the degree to which each economic exchange restores the water, air, soil, and habitats to health and true sustainability.

• Minnesota Currency

Issue: In the current system all dollars are created by private banks and "loaned" into circulation, but funds to make the "interest" payments can in the aggregate only be obtained via "borrowing" more money.
Pentel/Wallace: We will be the voice of the state in the national dialogue about monetary policy. We will work to establish a state currency, redeemable for taxes that will supplement Federal currency, and thereby close the state's budgetary shortfall. Our state currency will be self-directed, environmentally sustainable and socially just.

• Proportional Representation for the Minnesota House of Representatives (see http://tiny.cc/do9fy)

Issue: Our current electoral system is a winner-take-all system. Your party or candidate could acquire 49% of the votes in a legislative district and you could still end up with zero representation in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Pentel/Wallace: We will establish multi-party proportional representation (which is used by the majority of democratic nations world wide) within the Minnesota House of Representatives. Simply stated, if your party or candidate in a voting region receives 10% of the votes, they earn 10% of the seats.

• Ending Big Money and Corporate Interference in Minnesota's political system (see http://tiny.cc/owvqc)

Issue: Minnesota is one of the most lobbied states in the country. In 2004 and 2005 alone, over $50 million dollars was spent lobbying Minnesota policy makers and regulatory agencies. As a result, the average citizen can barely be heard.
Pentel/Wallace: We will enforce and expand existing law to remove the tentacles of big money and corporate interference in our government. We will use the power of the State to end corporate personhood and the absurd notion that money equals speech.
 

• Publicly Funded Elections (see http://tiny.cc/yej3w)

Issue: Only about 4% of the public gives money to parties & candidates. This means elected officials & party caucuses spend the public's time raising money from a tiny group of big-money people rather than protecting the common resources & people of MN.
Pentel/Wallace: We will insist that start-up and established parties and candidates receiving enough signatures or votes will be eligible for full public funding of elections (including free airtime on television and radio).