A proposal for direct dialogue between citizens and officeholders now being considered by top Democrats behind closed doors was disclosed Wednesday to a high Republican official.

In a letter to Timothy Morgan, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Santa Cruz Attorney, Ed Frey, a political independent and originator of the proposed Constitutional Amendment that would create the new process, challenges Senator John McCain and the Republican Party to support and participate in a demonstration of the new form of political discussion that is designed to overcome what Frey calls our contemporary form of Taxation Without Representation.

The letter describes current Democratic deliberations involving Congressman Rahm Emmanuel of Chicago and Illinois State Senator John Cullerton (legislative colleague, friend and confidante to Barack Obama) as they consider the prospect of instituting monthly, televised, unscripted, two-party conversations between each federal officeholder (President, Vice-President, each member of Congress) and a citizen constituent (or that citizen's appointed proxy).

Frey says this process would allow the American people to (1) cut through what he calls the meaningless debates in the Presidential campaign, (2) mount a basic challenge to the traditional American militarism that all three remaining candidates seem to embrace, and (3) convince the politicians of the need for a global initiative that would seek to end warfare, starvation and environmental degradation.

The challenge to the Republicans to provide genuine dialogue is particularly timely as the State of Illinois and the nation prepare to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, in which, according to Frey, the citizens in the audience vigorously participated.

To spread the word about this new constitutional initiative, Frey is heading up a nation-wide movement to transform cars and trucks into new vehicles of political expression. Calling it by the name of its website, www.FordsIntoNowShares.org , participants will park alongside busy commercial-area sidewalks and harangue passers-by from the hoods of their cars or the beds of their pick-ups, encouraging them to "take up the mantle of citizenship" and use their collective power by setting a new progressive political agenda.

For further information,
Contact Ed Frey, (831) 479-8911, (fax) 479-8174, or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
Or view the letter at www.FordsIntoNowShares.org
Or contact Timothy Morgan (831) 429-9841

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