DELAWARE UNIFIED CIVIC/POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

   Our Delaware Unified Civic/Political Association has been incorporated in Delaware as a non-profit organization. We will have an IRS designation, 501 (4) (C), in keeping with the vision and mission of our civic/political movement. Our purposeful, unified effort is to help change and improve our state's political culture level. Our participating citizens and organizations will provide best knowledge information and recommended reform changes on the civic/political issue areas important in our state's future and listed on this Home Page. Each issue area will have this information provided on not more than three, preferably less, down loaded pages. Our Association will make every effort to have our citizens, incumbents and challenging candidates for all state level elective offices acquire our Association's issue area best knowledge and support our sensible program and cost effective recommended reforms. We reject the empty, meaningless rhetoric of "liberal" and "conservative" that saturates and divides our civic/political culture. The sensible substance our Association offers our citizens and candidates for OUR elective state offices both respects and invites their civic intelligence and involvement.

   We will provide a candidate survey form to all candidates to determine which candidates become competently informed on this best knowledge information and sign off on supporting our recommended reform changes. One of our important Association goals is to identify, enlist and support (statewide and in every legislative election district) those candidates, regardless of political party affiliation, who will support the recommended reforms provided on each of our civic/political issue area's page. We invite, even urge, that readers of this information ask family members, friends and other fellow Delaware citizens to access our web site (deinformedvoters.org) and become members/owners as tributaries contributing to the citizen power we believe will enable us to take back our corporate-owned state government. We ask you to give our web site to leaders of all organizations where you hold membership and request that they  include our issue areas of interest as topics for membership meetings and invite our Issue Area Facilitators as presenters/discussants at these meetings. Our Association invites every Delaware citizen, organization, political party and politician involved in the civic/political issue areas we cover to provide our Issue Area Facilitators with constructive criticism, additional information or any input which will add to our best knowledge issue area information and recommended reforms sought from our state level elected decision-makers.

   Our single payer, nongovernment administered Delaware Health Security Act is THE LITMUS TEST for all incumbents and challenging candidates for OUR elective state level decision-making offices. See our web site's Health Care page to see the list of state/national organizations that have understood, endorsed and support passage of single payer health care reform acts as has already been accomplished to provide universal health care coverage for all of their citizens in the other 29 developed, industrialized nations in our world. In our nation, a large number of state and national polls have revealed that 70% of those polled vote for single payer health care reform. This writer's years of interactions with Delaware citizens and organizations as Chairperson of our Delaware Health Security Coalition indicates our citizens support our Association's Delaware single payer reform act at the same high level.  A Contact Them page will be provided on  our web site for all 68 elected state level decision-makers. Citizens are urged to become informed on health care coverage and our Association's other issue areas' recommended reforms and let these 68 know we expect them to honor their Oath of Office and support our recommended reforms with sensible and moral accountability.

   Our Association's mission is to provide Delaware citizens and candidates for our public elective offices best knowledge information on important civic/political issue areas that directly affect our future quality of life. We will always try to provide best knowledge information and recommended reform changes for the important civic/political issue areas our Association shares on our web site that are based on valid information from research findings and proven, data-based best practices and are adapted to Delaware's future needs and potential. We strongly believe that electing competently informed candidates for our important state elective offices is the only way hard-working, tax-paying citizens can effect both credibility and accountability in their state government. We have invited every political party in Delaware to fully participate in the mission of our Association. Both the Green Party and Independent Parties of our state became informed and joined our two state coalitions supporting our Association's Delaware Health Security Act and our Delaware Campaign Finance and Election Reform Act. Our state's Democratic and Republican Parties never offered the courtesy of a response to our two coalition's packages of documented supportive program and cost effective information and requests to meet and discuss these acts. One has only to study our coverage of the important litmus test issue area on health care coverage to understand that special interests are the big winners in our state capitol, aided and abetted by the hordes of special corporate interest lobbyists, the vast majority of state level elected officials and their appointed administrative office holders. 

   In 2008, all 41 seats in our House of Representatives and 10 of the 21 Senate seats are on the ballot. In our state's Executive Branch of government, the following elective offices are on the 2008 ballot: Governor, Lt. Governor and Insurance Commissioner. We will place priority on identifying, enlisting and supporting candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor who will become competently informed and sign off on supporting our Association's sensible program and cost effective recommended issue area reforms. ALL of these state level elective offices are OUR CITIZENS' OFFICES and we need to be sure those we elect will represent the credible substance hard-working citizens and their family members need and deserve. We will survey every incumbent and every challenging candidate as to her/his support or non-support of recommended reform for each civic/political issue area. Results will be posted for statewide candidates and election district by election district for legislative candidates on our web site and further disseminated through individuals, supportive organizations, the media, supportive candidates and other communication avenues. Our Association's best knowledge information and program and cost effective recommended reforms has accountability built into our unified process for political culture change.

   Our overall Association and each civic/political issue area will have one or more Issue Area Facilitators who will serve as contact resource persons. Each will be available to citizens, candidates, the print and electronic media, to provide presentations/discussions at organizations' meetings and interact with others in our state to discuss our information, answer questions, accept comments and suggestions to further advance our Association's mission. As our developing unified Association gets underway, we already have nine Issue Area Facilitators committed to providing leadership for nine of our civic/political issue areas. Issue Area Facilitators and Co-Facilitators for each issue area will serve on an Association Facilitator Council to help coordinate all components of our unified Association's civic/political reform movement. These Facilitators' names and contact information will be given in the information provided on each specific issue area's web site page. The Association Facilitator is Dr. Floyd E. McDowell, Sr., 11 Dover Court, Bear, DE 19701; phone number (302)832-2799; and email address,flydmcdwll@comcast.net.  Our Association invites every Delaware citizen to have informed membership/ownership in our Association's mission and to put priority on informing  family members, friends, leaders of your organizations and others about our Association's movement and web site (deinformedvoters.org).

   Our Association has identified 16 civic/political issue areas to cover with best knowledge information and recommendations for program and cost effective reform changes by our elected state level political decision-makers. Others may be added and covered on our web site. We expect to have information and reform recommendations for all issue areas on our web site by the end of Summer, 2007. We are working with key relevant informed individuals and organizations as we develop best knowledge information and reform recommendations for each issue area. We always have back up research information and data and other sensible substance to support all of our recommended reform changes. The following civic/political issue areas identified to date are all important for an improved quality of life for citizens and enhanced economic development in our state's future: 

   All Issue Area Facilitators providing best knowledge information and sensible, program and cost effective recommended reforms for these civic/political issues important in our state's future offer both an invitation and challenge to all individuals and organizations trying to affect reform changes on one or more of the issue areas listed above. Become informed Association Citizen Facilitators working with and through family members, neighbors and other fellow city/county/state citizens. Our Association's Overall Facilitator has worked for years with state and national leaders seeking sensible reform in the important issue areas of single payer health care, campaign finance and public schooling. All of these leaders know and advise that we will NEVER see these reforms happen at our national government level until many of our states have educated, enlisted informed citizens and caused the enactment of these these reforms via grass roots movements within their states. While the highest level of support for these reform laws in our national government has been at the 20% level, these reform laws are being passed in a growing number of states which will be cited in appropriate issue area pages of our web site. Our Association's key goal is to bring these issue area reform laws and changes into OUR Delaware government.

   Citizens need to read two valuable publications to better understand the past history and current reality of our state level political culture. Both books were published by the University of Delaware Press and are available from the University of Delaware Bookstore (302-831-2637) and other bookstores in our state. Both should be prominently featured in all public schools and public libraries. One is the brilliant publication Governing Delaware: Policy Problems in the First State (ISBN No. 0-87413-2637) by Dr. William W. Boyer. Dr. Boyer retired as Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Delaware. The other "must read" publication is Rebel with a Conscience (ISBN No. 0-87413-681-4) by Dr. Russell W.Peterson. Dr. Peterson was a former Governor of Delaware who served all citizens with the knowledge, integrity, commitment and moral motivation our unified Association seeks from every elected member of our state's executive and legislative branches of government.