Jack E. Lohman
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Jack Lohman is a retired health care business owner whose only income is from Social Security and investments.
His business was a cardiac monitoring lab in Milwaukee which he started and owned for 25 years (Holter, cardiac event monitoring, and mobile echocardiogram service) and he sold the company and retired in early 2004. Started in his basement, the company grew to $6M with 70 employees in four states during that 25 year period. Prior to that he spent 10 years selling high-tech medical equipment to hospitals and clinics. He holds several US patents (of which he'd gladly give up if they fixed the patent system).
Lohman now volunteers his time advocating for political reform (public financing of campaigns, instant runoff voting, independent ethics board, redistricting, etc.) and solid health care reform (a Medicare-style single payer system properly funded to eliminate the wait times). Getting the money out of the political system will allow these issues to get fixed in the best interest of the public. Until then our politicians are beholden to their funders. Right now the insurance and banking industries own our politicians.
Knowing full well that public issues will not be fixed without first getting private money out of political campaigns, he published his first (and likely only) book in 2006. "Politicians -- Owned and Operated by Corporate America," is available at www.MoneyedPoliticians.com or www.Amazon.com.
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net (political Blog)
http://SinglePayer.info (Medicare-for-all description)
www.ThrowTheRascalsOut.org (political advocacy -- Wisconsin Legislator stats)
www.MoneyedPoliticians.com (Book site: "Politicians - Owned and Operated by Corporate America")
www.BusinessCoalition.net (Business Coalition for Single-Payer Healthcare)
www.WiCleanElections.org (Describes the benefits of public funding of campaigns)
www.SmokeFreeDining.net (searchable database for smoke free restaurants)
www.Wish-wi.org (smoke free advocacy)
Lohman publishes a twice-monthly newsletter, examples of which can be seen at: www.ThrowTheRascalsOut.org/eNewsletters.htm. To subscribe, send a blank email to jelohman@gmail.com with "Subscribe eNewsletter" in the subject line
Serves on the national advisory board of Public Campaign (www.Publicampaign.org)
Volunteers for Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (www.wisdc.org) and www.HealthCare-NOW.org and those listed above.
I support some of the things that some of the public interest groups advocate, but not all of them. I am pro-business but not willing to close my eyes to its corruption when it exists. I vote Republican 80% of the time, and voted for McCain/Palin in 2008 (sorry Lefties, I like her).
I support concealed carry laws because they reduce crime, but otherwise oppose the NRA efforts to protect criminals' buying of AK47 assault weapons.
I support capital punishment under certain cases (I'd pull the trigger on Jeffrey Dahmer, but not on Scott Peterson because of the circumstantial evidence). I am also bothered by the timing of DNA tests. What happens if a woman has consensual sex with her boyfriend but is then killed by a jealous suitor. Who goes to the chair? I could live with NO death penalty.
I support voter ID cards to limit voter fraud, and so should the Dems. Nothing could enfranchise the disenfranchised better than issuing ID cards to ensure their right to vote when they arrive at the polling booth. I'd support an automated fingerprint reader system, but my ACLU friends would not.
I support polling booths in large companies so workers do not have to stand hours in line to vote. Issue cards at post offices, banks, welfare offices, etc.. I support voting by mail.
I believe the Fax and Internet has cut the need for the Post Office in half, and they should cut employees and real estate in half. But they should not be used as an example to scuttle other government functions (like health care).
I support optical card readers and oppose touch screen voting machines because they offer no paper trail.
I believe the minimum wage should be indexed to inflation (or congressional pay raises, whichever is greater). I also believe politicians should be forced to take a pay cut in deficit years.
I believe that those receiving welfare and food stamps should perform community services in return. No free lunch. Work for Welfare can serve as a good training tool. Volunteering will help in retraining and restoration of jobs.
I support strong borders and oppose illegal immigration, and would like to see legal immigration increased. I support sanctions against Mexico until they rid their system of the corruption that drives their people out of the country (though I'd also like to rid our system of corruption too). I'd deport the bad immigrants and let the good ones stay and work or serve in the military for citizenship. I oppose sending 100% of them back, because I don't like what having five million newly-emptied homes would do to our economy.
I support stem cell research and would suggest that those who are healthy mind their own business.
I believe that drug users need treatment and drug pushers need long imprisonment. I'd support legalizing drugs and selling them at zero profit to users that agreed to attend rehab. Legalizing drugs would reduce crime and stop the pushers from hooking kids in high school (because there'd be no profits).
I'm a Christian but want the churches to stay out of politics and governments to stay out of religion.
I supported Terry Schaivo's parents but opposed the intervention by Congress and the Supreme Court. Michael Shaivo should have been disqualified because his new wife and family created a conflict of interest. The parents should have had the final say. (Disclosure: I am a parent.)
I oppose pulling the troops out of Iraq willy-nilly, would rather see them increased and the country swept for explosives and terrorists, and then split into three geographical religious factions. (If they can't play together they can't stay together.)
I supported the confirmation of John Bolton but dislike Bush immensely (though I voted for him twice, but now want a do-over).
I'm an ex-CEO that doesn't like CEOs that rip off their shareholders or the public. We need strong corporate oversight and a tax penalty for those who move jobs offshore.
Since corporate taxes are passed on to the public and are therefore regressive, I prefer zero taxes on (most) companies and all taxes coming from the taxpayers (zero up to $25K, flat up to $150K, and progressive beyond that). I'd pay for single-payer healthcare the same way.
But above all, I support getting the corruption out of our political system and our politicians working on OUR behalf rather than for the special interests that fund their elections. It is killing America. The people care about that but the politicians don't, so the politicians have to be replaced.
So, am I left wing or right wing? I don't even know. Call me what you want.
It's time to bypass employers and try a single-payer health care system
Single-payer health care is better option
Free corporations from health expenses
Future Generations Deserve a Democracy; Not a Plutocracy
On Corporate Taxes, Let’s Think Outside of the Box
Public funding of campaigns is only road to clean government
Call me what you wish, but I consider myself a center-right Republican that voted for Bush twice (though at this point I wish I could have a do-over). Perhaps I'm better called an "Old version Republican." I'm fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and were I to have a political choice it would be for a strong third-party reform candidate in all seats. I do not like our very costly and ineffective political duopoly. And I don't like the politicians currently in office, from either side of the isle. With a few exceptions, they all must go. We need a fresh crop of leaders.
Don't send your money, I don't want it, I don't want to have report it, and I don't want to defend it. My sites are 100% funded by me. I do not ask for nor take public grants or personal contributions. That's the way it is.
I do not run the organizations I support, and how they are funded is for their own disclosures to deal with. Whether or not they support my site is up to them to disclose.
Don't guess. If you want to know my other positions, ask me before you blast me.