Policy 2

Endorse, support and fund candidates who will defend and promote property rights.

The old adage that you get what you pay for is especially true with respect to government. And we aren’t talking about what you pay in taxes. The government you get is directly correlated to the dollar amount of campaign contributions received by candidates that have views similar to yours on the issues that matter most to you. In case you haven’t noticed, the anti-private-control-of-property crowd is outspending the pro-private-control-of-property crowd by a wide margin. It is so lopsided that even our Supreme Court judges are voting against property rights explicitly guaranteed by both the state and federal constitution.

The only way to correct the imbalance is to fight their money with our own. While individual contributions to individual candidates have been the traditional means of financing elections, there is a more modern alternative. Political action committees are a government-approved method with which people with common goals can pool their resources to maximize the return on their campaign dollars. Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights is an approved political action committee in Washington and California. We organized for the specific purpose of finding, endorsing and funding candidates who will promote and defend our constitutionally guaranteed right to own and control property. That is and will always be our primary purpose.

In our American system of representative government there are typically three branches — legislative, executive and judicial—and we must find and elect property rights supporters to all of those branches. It does no good to pass laws that defend our rights if the courts simply ignore them when making their decisions. Many of the specifics of the laws that restrict our uses of our property are put in place by executive branch bureaucrats that never have to stand for election, but we can certainly hold their elected bosses accountable. Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights will search out candidates who share our commitment to defend property rights and help them win election.