30K to 1 ~ Restoring
American Traditions
About 30K to 1
CJ Rapp~ 30Kto1 Founder
WHERE CJ COMES FROM
Obviously, with just one look, you would guess CJ was an average middle class, suburban, white privileged, liberal male. Close but not quite. His life changed when he became best friends with a Lakota/Cheyenne NA in high school. At 17, he visited the Pine Ridge Reservation with his friend's family and went through a ceremony, and was adopted. In college, this experience inspired him to study Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Learning Resilience
CJ was not able to get a job in his field of study in 1980 after the election of Ronald Reagan. Within Reagan's first 100 days in office, he removed the solar panels from the White House Jimmy Carter had installed, and used his next 8 years in office to basically halt the environmental movement. A Congress that was bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry, Wall Street, etc., set America on course for the destination we have now arrived at in 2020.
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CJ went to work for his Dad, who as an entrepreneur and recently started a wholesale distribution company selling major brand appliances, consumer electronics, and household furniture to the Rocky Mountain region. CJ spent 28 years building the family business and learned marketing inside out, it became his passion. In 2008, he and his Dad were forced out of business and had to liquidate. They were doing millions of dollars of business with builders, remodelers, and helped support the new fix and flip business model.
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In 2011, CJ launched a digital marketing business following in his entrepreneurial parent's footsteps and adapted his passion for marketing to the digital.
MISSION STATEMENT
Promote Direct Democracy
The so-called republic and representative form of government the United States claims to have is broken beyond repair. It has morphed into a rigged and corrupt centralized control system that consolidates wealth and power for the few at the expense of the many.
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It had good bones but became subverted almost 100 years ago when the 30,000 to 1 (30K to 1) ratio of constituents to Congressional Representatives was frozen at 435. If the ratio was restored, we would have 7,786 Congressional Representatives.