Get Out of Our House (GOOOH)

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Time to Give Congress the Pink Slip?
Author, activist outlines plan to evict all 435 current members of Congress

LIBERTY HILL, Texas – Eighteen percent. That is the total number of Americans who currently approve of the job Congress is doing, according to an August 2007 Gallup Poll. It’s a significant drop, to say the least, from the 84 percent approval rating Congress received one month after the September 11 tragedy. Americans today are clearly fed up with their elected leaders, yet are doing little to take action and effect change. In fact, in the 2006 mid-term election, nearly 60 percent of Americans didn’t exercise their right to vote.

Tim Cox, author and activist, is going one step further. He’s seeking to evict all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. He details his non-partisan plan in his new book, Revolution! A New Plan for Selecting Representatives (Bridgeway Books, December 2007, ISBN 978-1-934454-03-9, $14.95). Revolution! proposes a new voting system (the Get Out of Our House system, or GOOOH for short) that will essentially fire all 435 current members of Congress and replace them with everyday Americans.

“The people of America are thoroughly disgusted with politics and politicians,” says Cox. “This is our opportunity to reclaim our government.”

The GOOOH system does not favor any particular political position and it enables almost every American to participate in the process and even run for office themselves. The people of each district will select true representatives of their locale. GOOOH nominees will then run as GOOOH “party” representatives in the 2008 national Congressional election, competing against the Republican and Democratic candidates. Dubbed the “Revolution of 2008,” Cox’s progressive system has already raised a number of eyebrows.

“The plan is exceptionally bold, almost radical, and many will be dismissive because they are not willing to believe that such a change is even possible,” Cox concedes. “But this system allows the entire country to actively participate in a process that has the potential to change everything they dislike about the current political system.”

Tim Cox received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a master’s degree in business administration from St. Edward’s University. After helping Dell grow to a $55 billion Fortune 25 company, he left a lucrative career in tech markets to rededicate his life to grassroots governmental efforts. He lives with his wife, Donna, in Liberty Hill, Texas. Visit www.GOOOH.com for more information.