Dean Jackson

Campaign finance reform is huge.

This upcoming Senate race, I haven't heard the latest numbers, will probably $50 million or $100 million spent on that election.

It costs close to a million to win a House seat in this environment.

That needs to be fixed because that takes out the little man.

So now the only players are the people who can write the big checks, right?

And they get the influence.

But to answer your question, just a very big picture approach to let's fix the system first.

by getting people in the system who are actually representing the people and not special interest.

And I think all these little, not little, but these granular things that I'm talking about can get fixed because now politics is off the table and we're sitting down, Democrats, Republicans, whatever the parties are, but can have a negotiation, a conversation, just like you would in business.

national representative from this area in national matters right in federal matters or whatever yeah no it's a very appropriate question and i feel like it's one that most people don't understand and it's one of these things that the framers were just amazingly you know foresightful brilliant individuals that set this thing up so the house of representatives is where i'm running for has always been from the very beginning designed to be the voice of the people in washington the framers

that we would have, and there's 435 of them.

So each state has a number based on population.

So that was the role of the House of Representatives member, to be in the district, getting interaction with the people.

When we first started, we had to be out there doing it face-to-face.

Now that's changed a lot, though the way Congress does it unfortunately hasn't evolved much over the last 50 years.

But so then the role of the Senate, and this is a really cool thing, it's the role of the Senate

in their minds, was to be a much more deliberative body.

I don't like to use the term smarter, but senators tend to have more experience and more ability to reason and to negotiate.

Yeah, well, both bodies do that.

But yeah, the Senate was designed to be the deliberative body.