Part 2 Doug and I continue our conversation about the historical landing of his Gyrocopter on the lawn of the U. S. Capital as well as Campaign Finance reform.
Doug landed an ultralight gyrocopter (think flying motorcycle) on the west lawn of the US Capitol Building in April 2015 with 535 letters, one to every member of Congress calling them out for their greed and the role of big money in politics. Doug is back with a book because corruption hasn't changed. (It's not just the GOP, either.)
FLIGHT PLAN is a memoir - 90% of the book (by word count) covers his story, including a personal tragedy that created the frame of mind for such a radical stunt. And what happened afterward - the media firestorm and a vindictive prosecutor pushing charges carrying potentially nine years in prison.
The other 10% scattered with a light footprint is the true topic of the book - what institutional graft is, how it functions, and how we can end it. Citizens know corruption exists like an obscene deformity of what democracy should be. They don't want to look because they fear there is no cure.
And there is. The remedy for institutional graft is non-partisan, easy to understand, and it makes fixing everything else possible.
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