26 min
Systems Level Failure? Veterans for All Voters Takes on Polarizing Elections The Purple Principle
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“Every time I talk to someone about running for office, the first thing they say is, Eric, you have to pick a team,” confides Navy veteran Eric Bronner, COO of the non-partisan group Veterans for All Voters.
“And something didn't sit right with me. So the pump was primed, as my parents would say, for some kind of awakening.”
That awakening occurred listening to a Freakonomics podcast episode with former Purple Principle guest Katherine Gehl, co-author of The Politics Industry. In that episode, as in our own 2021 interview, Gehl highlighted the lack of incentives our elected officials have to govern effectively.
To tackle that problem, Eric and his co-founders are forming a nationwide network of veterans to volunteer on behalf of state level election reform initiatives like opening primaries to the large percentage of registered independent or unaffiliated veterans unable to vote in primary elections and also to advance Final Four or Five voting as detailed in The Politics Industry.
“The last thing we need is more partisanship,” says Bronner who now works full time coordinating hundreds of volunteers in forty states and counting. “We can have differences of opinion, right? But the system itself is broken.”
Tune in to meet three other veterans behind this effort and find out how Bronner and Veterans For All Voters hope to mend the system in this 2024 election cycle and beyond. The Purple Principle is Fluent Knowledge production. Original music by Ryan Adair Rooney.
SHOW NOTES
Our Guests
Eric Bronner: Bio, X (Twitter)
Co-founder and COO of Veterans for All Voters
Additional Resources
Show Me Integrity
Freakonomics: America’s Hidden Duopoly
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter
Find us online!
X: @purpleprincipl
Facebook: @thepurpleprinciplepodcast
Instagram: @thepurpleprinciplepodcast
Our website: https://bit.ly/2ZCpFaQ
Sign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2UfFSja
“Every time I talk to someone about running for office, the first thing they say is, Eric, you have to pick a team,” confides Navy veteran Eric Bronner, COO of the non-partisan group Veterans for All Voters.
“And something didn't sit right with me. So the pump was primed, as my parents would say, for some kind of awakening.”
That awakening occurred listening to a Freakonomics podcast episode with former Purple Principle guest Katherine Gehl, co-author of The Politics Industry. In that episode, as in our own 2021 interview, Gehl highlighted the lack of incentives our elected officials have to govern effectively.
To tackle that problem, Eric and his co-founders are forming a nationwide network of veterans to volunteer on behalf of state level election reform initiatives like opening primaries to the large percentage of registered independent or unaffiliated veterans unable to vote in primary elections and also to advance Final Four or Five voting as detailed in The Politics Industry.
“The last thing we need is more partisanship,” says Bronner who now works full time coordinating hundreds of volunteers in forty states and counting. “We can have differences of opinion, right? But the system itself is broken.”
Tune in to meet three other veterans behind this effort and find out how Bronner and Veterans For All Voters hope to mend the system in this 2024 election cycle and beyond. The Purple Principle is Fluent Knowledge production. Original music by Ryan Adair Rooney.
SHOW NOTES
Our Guests
Eric Bronner: Bio, X (Twitter)
Co-founder and COO of Veterans for All Voters
Additional Resources
Show Me Integrity
Freakonomics: America’s Hidden Duopoly
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter
Find us online!
X: @purpleprincipl
Facebook: @thepurpleprinciplepodcast
Instagram: @thepurpleprinciplepodcast
Our website: https://bit.ly/2ZCpFaQ
Sign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2UfFSja
26 min