Monday, July 26, 7:00pm
Solea Restaurant and Tapas Bar
388 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453

Advance ticket purchase is requested, so that we can plan accordingly.

Suggested donation: $20

Monday, July 19, 7:00pm
Victory Cigar Bar
56 Shrewsbury Street
Worcester, MA 01604

Due to limited seating at Victory Cigar Bar, advance ticket purchase is highly recommended.

Suggested donation levels
Citizen-Auditor: $45
Investigator: $75
Director: $125
Executive Sponsor: $500

Participation Level

Citizen-Auditor $45.00 Investigator $75.00 Director $125.00 Executive Sponsor $500.00

If you’re a sportsman, would you contribute to the campaign of someone who prefers to ignore the Second Amendment?

That’s exactly what happens under the state’s Public Financing Law.

Under the provisions of the program, taxpayers can check off a box on their state taxes to donate $1 to public campaign financing. That money is used to match other donations for participating candidates. Although donating the dollar is voluntary, taxpayers have no say about who gets their money.

As a candidate for State Auditor, I have refused to participate in the public financing program. I won’t take your money unless YOU want to give it to me.

Some of the other candidates running for State Auditor are participating in the public financing program, including my opponent in the September primary. Every donation she receives, from back in 2009 until the primary in September, up to $250, is eligible for matching money from the public financing kitty. The other candidates are taking advantage of what they believe is free money. I know there is no such thing as a free lunch.

In both my business dealings and my campaign, I have always stood strongly on principle. I will not waver from this. At one job, when making cost-cutting suggestions, I recommended that the company lay me off. It was the right thing to do, regardless of the personal impact to me.

Refusing public financing is the right thing for me to do. I promote Total Transparency, and, as Auditor, will let you see how the state is spending every penny of your money. I can’t approve of a program that takes your hard-earned dollars and gives it to candidates you would never choose to support.

Total Transparency is about knowing how every dollar and every dime of your money is spent. When you are armed with this knowledge, you have the tools you need to fight against the programs you are opposed to, and for the programs that support your values.

When you donate to the Kamal Jain for Auditor campaign, your money goes directly to helping bring Total Transparency to Massachusetts. It will pay for yard signs, radio ads, and TV ads, all to bring my message of Total Transparency to the voters. Your money will help elect an Auditor that won’t just claim to tell you what’s going on behind the government’s curtain of secrecy. I will tear down the curtain and let you see it all for yourself.

Since I’m not taking any “public” money, direct donations are needed all the more. If you will donate $250 or $100 to my campaign, you will make a big difference.

If you will donate $25 or $50, you will help us spread the word.

Even if you can only donate $5 or $10, I will appreciate it all the more because you gave it willingly, to support what we believe in.

Please help me reach out to all the Massachusetts voters. Please donate today.

Thank you for supporting my campaign for Total Transparency.

The Rock the Vote concert will be held from 1:00-6:00pm on Devens Common, 27 Andrews Parkway, Devens. Food, beer and wine will be available. Tickets are available for a suggested donation of $20, and may be purchased directly from the Kamal Jain for Auditor campaign.

Absolute Strangers is a high energy Blues and Blues Based Classic Rock band out of Pepperell Massachusetts. Featuring Stella Stevens on vocals, Dave Lester and Rob Fortini on Guitar, Scott Rezendes on Bass and Ed Warshauer on Drums and Percussion, Absolute Strangers plays an eclectic mix of blues, blues based rock and classic rock cover tunes.

Dawghouse is an 80’s to today cover band playing all the songs the other cover bands miss!! Local talent; they’re from Lowell, Billerica, Woburn, & Lexington, & local Gigs!

Eastwood Peak, one of Southern New Hampshire’s hottest and longest running rock bands, plays their own original songs blended with a wide variety of classic cover songs from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and the present. Eastwood Peak consists of five talented musicians: Dean Glow (keyboards and vocals), Mickey Lorden (rhythm guitar and vocals), Kevin Visnaskas (lead guitar, harmonica and vocals), Kevin Hinds (drums and vocals), and John Bruner (bass and vocals).

Kamal Jain is teaming up with Jon Golnik, candidate for U.S. Congress (MA 5th) and State Rep candidates Connie Sullivan (1st Middlesex), Kurt Hayes (37th Middlesex), and Jim Gettens (12th Worcester) to host this exciting event. It will be a show not to be missed!

Download the Rock the Vote flyer to share!

Buy your tickets online today!

If you would like purchase tickets by check, please send an email with your name and the number of tickets requested to events@kamaljain.com.

Boston, MA — On Friday, June 4th, Kamal Jain, Republican candidate for State Auditor, filed his primary election spending limit, pledging not to spend more than $26,930,143,000 in his primary election campaign.

$26,930,143,000 is the size of the official Fiscal Year 2010 Massachusetts state government budget.

“27 billion is the size of this year’s state budget, but state spending will be drastically higher than that,” Jain remarked. “I chose the state budget amount as my primary spending limit to call attention to state spending. This amount only represents about half of what total spending will be for FY2010.”

In FY2009, the state’s total spending was $51.8 billion, exceeding the $28.2 billion budget by about $24 billion. The state government is spending an average of $1,000,000,000 each week.

Kamal Jain is campaigning for State Auditor with the sole purpose of bringing Total Transparency to Massachusetts. By putting every dollar and every dime of state spending online, he will empower the people to see exactly how their government spends taxpayer dollars. If Jain’s campaign were to raise and spend $27 billion, the real winners in this election would be the people of Massachusetts.

“Other candidates for Auditor promise to go behind the curtain and tell the people what is going on back there,” Kamal Jain pledges. “I will tear down the curtain and invite the people to come in and see for themselves. I’ll give the voters a map, a compass, and a flashlight, and let them loose to explore every crevice of state government spending.”

Jain is the only candidate for State Auditor from any party with a vision and a plan for enhancing democracy and improving civic engagement through Total Transparency. Further details of his Total Transparency plan will be released this month.

Kamal Jain’s campaign is not about furthering any particular party, ideology or agenda, but rather to promote democracy and restore citizen engagement with, and oversight of, their government. This can only happen with Total Transparency.

Kamal Jain and his campaign team collected well over 9,643 signatures, from 285 towns, representing 13 counties. After submitting the nominating petitions to each town clerk for certification, the Kamal Jain for Auditor campaign garnered 7,103 certified signatures.

“I would like to thank all the volunteers and activists that helped us collect and distribute the petitions, thus securing my place on the primary ballot,” Kamal Jain stated. “As a candidate in the only contested statewide raced on the Republican ticket, I’m looking forward to an exciting campaign season.”

With the petition drive now over, Kamal Jain and his campaign team have turned their full attention to the business of campaigning. Although he continues to maintain his full-time job, Kamal Jain is excited to be kicking his speaking schedule into high gear.

Kamal Jain’s platform of Total Transparency, of putting every state financial transaction online, free and available for everyone to see, has resonated with voters across Massachusetts.

“I love attending events all over the state, meeting the voters face-to-face and discussing the issues that concern them,” Kamal Jain noted. “Everywhere I go, my message of Total Transparency is energizing voters all across the political spectrum. We’ve already visited voters in 48 towns. Over the summer, I look forward to visiting many more.”

Please see their blog post here:

http://fiscalaccountability.org/auditor-candidate-pledges-bold-transparency-massachusetts-a1273

…and keep checking back with them for additional coverage of Total Transparency!

For many years our republic flourished with very little growth of government.  Most government was very local, very small and naturally transparent.  People knew what was going on and had a say in it.  Waste was hard to hide.

As the nation grew faster, so did government.  Like any bureaucracy, the larger government got, the more wasteful and inefficient it got.  But the more local government was, the more naturally transparent it generally was, because people could see the outcomes and effects of government with their own eyes.

In more recent years, government growth has been primarily at the state and Federal level, where it is, by definition, not local, and by nature increasingly opaque and hidden from the eyes of the people.  To address this concern, state and federal government established entire bureaucracies just to audit the government for waste and inefficiency.

The problem with this arrangement is obvious: Government cannot objectively audit itself any more than an individual or corporation could objectively audit themselves.  There is an inherent conflict of interest, as well as the bias and indifference that comes with spending other people’s money.

For generations, ever-expanding government was only tracked on paper, and then eventually on proprietary computer systems controlled by government itself.  Freedom of information requests were — and often still are — paper forms submitted in person or through the mail, which eventually yield paper results.

None of the information was easy to obtain or easy to consume.  The people had little choice but to rely upon government to audit itself and hope for the best.

No more — now we can have Democracy in America 2.0!

The late 20th and early 21st century have brought to the masses unprecedented access to information and technology.  Nearly all government operation occurs on computer systems which can produce information that is easy to obtain and easy to consume — and easy to understand.

Fundamental to democracy working correctly is civic engagement.  The people need to know what their government is doing, and be able to participate through the democratic process of voting.  According to polls commissioned by the Association of Government Accountants, government transparency is very important to the American people.

Here in Massachusetts we have a paradox: One of the most technically well-equipped states, with a complete lack of state government transparency.

So why no transparency?

Because most politicians and candidates do not embrace true transparency.  They have learned that “transparency” is a word they can throw around and win points with, but unless they are talking about true and total transparency, where the people can directly see the information with their own eyes, then it isn’t transparency.

Any politician who says that they will find government waste and show the people isn’t offering transparency, they’re offering to go behind the curtain and tell the people what’s back there.  That is not transparency.  No politician is immune to the influences of being in government; they cannot be objective.  And with the sheer size and scope of today’s state government, it is hubris to make such claims or promises.

Until recently, we had little choice.  But today we have the democratizing benefits of technology.

The Internet, powerful home computers, and smart mobile phones have given billions of people on the planet cheap and instant access to vast collections of news, information and wisdom.  We no longer have to go to libraries and search through card catalogs in hopes of gaining knowledge.  We no longer have to rely solely on a very small set of news outlets such as newspapers and television.

We no longer have to allow our government to operate secretly and without transparency.  We no longer have to trust politicians and rely on government to objectively audit itself.

We have had the technology and the ability.  We have only lacked the right government Auditor to make it happen.

Until now.

I’m Kamal Jain, and I am the ONLY candidate for State Auditor with a promise and a plan to bring Total Transparency to our state government.  I promise to return the power to oversee government to the people by making all financial information freely accessible and easy to understand.  I’ve made other pledges as well.

I will establish a Massachusetts version of the famed Grace Commission, which will enable volunteers from the private sector to actively audit government operations.  These things will empower the people to become citizen auditors.

No politician, bureaucrat or government department can objectively audit government or tell the people what is going on inside.  Only Total Transparency can. Only Total Transparency will return the power to rein-in government back to the people. If we want Democracy in America 2.0, we have to demand Total Transparency.

Only one candidate for State Auditor offers Total Transparency: Kamal Jain.

Please vote for Kamal Jain in the Republican primary on September 14th.

Thank you!

If you’re like most people, you prefer simplicity and clarity. But we constantly hear politicians telling you how complicated things are, that we need “experts” to make important decisions for us.  They tell us not to worry our pretty little heads with the details of how government operates and how it spends money.

They talk about things like “structural deficits” — a fancy name for spending more money than you have.  When someone mentions “structural deficits,” a lot of people tend to think “oh, that sounds complicated, better leave it to the experts”.

But when you look at the real problem, you see it simply: Our politicians have a spending problem. If someone told you the state had a spending problem, you would probably want to jump right in to help solve it by cutting spending, not raising taxes, right?

“No, it really is too complicated for the public to understand,” say the politicians and bureaucrats on Beacon Hill.

I’m Kamal Jain, candidate for Massachusetts State Auditor, and I’m with you — the problem is simple: Our politicians have a spending problem, and they’re not just in denial, they’re lying about it.  There have been no cuts in total spending over the past 10 audited years. You’ve seen my analysis and chart proving this, right? (click the link or the image for the analysis)

10 Year Total Spending Chart

What do you think when you’re told something that contradicts the facts?  Do you want to ignore the facts, or do you want to call their bluff and say, “Show me the money!”?

Do you want someone to tell you where the money goes, or do you want to see for yourself?  Of course you want to see for yourself.

You don’t want some “expert” to tell you what they think you need to know about the dark and dirty recesses of government. You want to see them firsthand, with your own eyes.

I’m Kamal Jain, and I want to give you the information and tools you need to understand how your government operates, how it spends your money.  I want to give you a map, a flashlight and a compass and let you discover it for yourself.  I’ll let you see where every dollar and every dime comes from and where it goes. No other candidate for Auditor will do that.

If you prefer simple over complicated, if you don’t want to just take someone else’s word for what is going on in government, then your choice for Auditor is simple, too — Kamal Jain.

Please vote for Kamal Jain in the Republican primary on September 14th.

Thank you!

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