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Shumway for Congress

Smaller government

Term limits

No advantages for incumbents

There's something weird going on:

  • Americans who approved of Congress in 2024: 13% 

  • Republican incumbents who won their primaries in 2024: 99%

Why do we hold elections every two years, if members of Congress get re-elected almost 100% of the time anyway? 

Perry Shumway is running to represent Idaho's 2nd Congressional District in 2026, seeking to oust long-term incumbent Mike Simpson. Perry intends to remove the many advantages that incumbents like Simpson enjoy. Advantages which unfairly result in almost guaranteed job security for people who, by constitutional design, are supposed to be held accountable every two years to the people they represent.

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What Perry will focus on:

  • Elimination of the franking privilege

  • Runoff elections between challengers to narrow them down to one person to face the incumbent in the primary election

  • An end to local spending, pork-barrel projects and earmarks during the election season

  • Rules against last-minute "spoiler candidates" who dilute the vote

  • Prevention of the signal-boosting of fringe candidates, i.e., helping weaker opponents​

  • Exposure of last-minute, out-of-district expenditures of large amounts of money when incumbents feel threatened and call in favors

  • A stop to the use of taxpayer-funded staff for campaigning

  • Nonpartisan, AI-driven algorithms to draw district lines, instead of legislatures

  • No mid-decade redistricting

  • Term limits for the House and the Senate

  • Easier ballot access for challengers

  • Mandatory televised debates

  • No more taxpayer-funded campaign travel

  • Elimination of the ability of incumbents to remove competitors from ballots over trivial errors or technicalities

  • Mandatory transparency on interactions with lobbyists

  • Real-time disclosure of campaign donations, rather than months after the fact

  • A lifetime ban on post-Congressional lobbying positions

  • Pressure on local media outlets to give equal time to challengers

  • A ban on deepfake political ads

  • Removal of barriers to voter turnout

  • Comprehensive voter guides sent to all households

  • Constitutionally switching Congressional rule-making from Congress to the Supreme Court

  • Elimination of the benefits of committee chairmanship or seniority in Congressional rules and processes

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