The three rounds of televised bickering between Alex Sink and Rick Scott, punctuated by their blizzard of attack ads, are a travesty of a mockery of a sham. Last night, my running mate, Al Krulick, and I crashed the final Sink-Scott debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa. I dressed up as Robin Hood to represent the demand of the people for return of the common wealth that was taken from us by the robber barons and their two-party sycophants. 

Both Al and I made statements on microphone at the “Debate Watch Party,” followed by the moderator asking for a show of hands from the audience regarding who they thought took the debate. Her last offering, “none of the above” took the most votes, but whoever wins the state will still represent the special interests. 

The debates are only a small part of a corrupt system designed to eliminate outside challengers and preserve the status quo. As Robin Hood, I posed with cash-laden, flat wooden cutouts of the two millionaire candidates. I did this to illustrate that the rich have been stealing from the rest of us, and that we deserve an equitable, democratically representative government that is truly of, by and for the people. We can begin this process by exchanging the winner-take-all voting system with ranked choice majority voting (like much of the civilized world already uses), by taking private money out of politics, and by using ranked choice voting and proportional representation in congressional districts.

It seems that voters are lost in a surreal version of the Sherwood Forest where they cannot see the forest for the money trees. Two of those wooden decoys are flanking me, but they are only put there to distract voters and give the illusion of choice.  My focus is on the real cause—our electoral system—and I intend to do something about it.

To the electoral system I say: “I’ve got my eye on you, and I have a lot of arrows left in my quiver!”