Toughen ethics laws and employment agreements to make our elected, appointed and employed state officials far more accountable for their actions.

• Remove from office any elected official who is found guilty of a major ethics violation.
  
  
• Disallow politicians the option of paying a settlement to the Ethics Commission without admitting guilt. We consider this the equivalent of buying one's way out of accountability and the practice should not be tolerated any longer.
  
  
• Make official State policy that all re-negotiated contracts with State employees unions must provide effective mechanisms for non-union management to hold union employees accountable for their actions, or lack thereof, up to and including termination for cause.
  
  
• Disallow the Legislative Grant process - we don't have the money to pay for it. Legislative Grants are off-budget payouts to select groups and organizations decided solely at the whim of the legislative leadership. These giveaways can be used to coerce legislators by threatening to not provide funds for that legislator's pet projects. Amazingly, Democratic House leaders were granted the lion's share of these grants, proving that these goodies are wholly political in nature.