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GOOOH stands for 'Get Out of Our House' and is pronounced like the word 'go'. It is a NON-PARTISAN plan to place citizen representatives on the ballot in 2012, ideally in the primary against the incumbent, competing for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The members of each district will have an honest opportunity to replace the career politicians who have taken over OUR House and are destroying our nation.

If you are tired of career politicians, GOOOH is for you. If you believe money has corrupted Washington, GOOOH is for you. If you believe politicians have too much power, GOOOH is for you. If you are weary of the death grip the two parties have on our government, and are ready to return control of our government to the people, then GOOOH is for you.

GOOOH is NOT a political party. It is a system that will allow you and your neighbors to choose, among yourselves, a candidate who will truly represent your district. Members will select a citizen representative to serve their district. How our candidates get on the ballot will be dependent on when we reach our membership goal. Our preference is to compete in the primaries against the incumbent. It is possible candidates may choose to run in some other way; the candidates will make that decision based on the situation in their district. It is important to clearly state that we are not a third party. We have no platform and are a bottom-up organization. We are a process for selecting and funding candidates.

This is an evolving system and your input is requested. The questions are changing based on the feedback of members like you. Participate in the forums. Send us your thoughts. This is YOUR system. We will perfect it with your input.

This is a new system created by an innovative engineer who has developed complex computer systems his entire career that change the way we do things. The founder developed software for a spy satellite system, helped invent the first credit-card-reading gas pump system, and worked at Dell as the company grew to a $55 billion technology giant. This system leverages the internet and social networking to allow "we the people" to select true representatives, not choose between the politicians the two parties offer. If we continue to elect career politicians who represent their party, the special interests that fund them, and themselves, nothing will change. This is a non-partisan process that will enable the change we all seek.

GOOOH will allow you to:

1.Help select your Representative - while being considered yourself if you like
2.Hold your Representative accountable
3.Replace career politicians with true representatives
4.Take the money out of politics

Our process allows Americans of every political leaning to participate in the selection of their District's Representative while being considered themselves. Through our Candidate Selection Sessions you and your peers will select the candidate in your district who best represents your district's views. Even if you do not wish to become your district's representative you will want to participate in the process and have a direct say in who is chosen to represent your district. We will fund a single national campaign to promote our candidates (one from each district) who are selected to run against the party politicians. Because we are a process for selecting representatives (not a "party") we expect a socially moderate candidate to be selected in San Francisco and a socially conservative one in Colorado Springs. We expect fiscally conservative candidates to be chosen in just about every district -- but it will be up to the members in each district to decide.



Originally, our founder proposed excluding lawyers, members of political families, and individuals with more than $11.5 million in assets (250 times the median income). They were not to be excluded because they are bad people, but because they are overly represented in government today and, generally speaking, no longer seem to represent the common man. However, based on input from our members, the Question Committee has voted to remove the exclusion of lawyers and the wealthy. It will be up to the participants in each pool to decide whether or not that is of concern. We believe this change is indicative of the continuing evolution of our system.

We hope you will join GOOOH today and help us take our House back from the politicians!



For GOOOH to succeed we need donating members. We encourage each member to donate $100 now and help us get the advertising efforts started. We will choose candidates for 2012 in any district with 250 or more members and a leader. We will continue to build our base of supporters until a month before the filing deadline in each state, at which time we will begin the selection process. Our first candidates will be chosen in Texas, beginning on Nov ember 5th - Texas has the earliest filing deadline in the nation. In most states, candidates will run as a Republican or Democrat, competing in the primary. In some states our candidates could run as an Independent, though they will be advised that the odds will be stacked heavily against them if they do. They could run on some other Party’s ticket, such as the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party, but again, we will not advise taking that route; Republicans and Democrats win 99.9% of the time. The rules in each state and the willingness of established parties to cooperate will help determine how to access the ballot.

Tim Cox spent 25 years creating innovative solutions in the high-tech world. He developed software for a spy satellite, helped build the first credit card reading gas pump, and created systems at Dell as they grew to a $55 billion Fortune 25 giant. In 2007 he walked away from a lucrative career in the tech industry to create GO, a system to elect true citizen representatives to the United States House of Representatives. With over two million web site visitors, GO is on track to choose candidates for 2012.

An amazing sequence of events, beginning with a move to Liberty Hill, TX, in 2004, led to the creation of GOOOH. An insistent clerk convinced Cox to read A Brilliant Solution describing what some would call the miraculous creation of our Constitution. That led him to the writings of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others. While Cox had been developing innovative computer systems for a living, his passion suddenly shifted.

Today he aims for loftier goals: an overhaul of our nation’s government, and a House of Representatives that is unfettered by special interest groups and not filled with career politicians. To outline his plan, Cox has released Get Out of Our House: Revolution! (Bridgeway Books), which details a new method for restoring integrity to our government, beginning with the U.S. House. The plan is to evict career politicians - all 435 of them if necessary - and replace them with everyday Americans chosen by their peers. In the book Revolution!, Cox also examines the key issues our current representatives have neglected, and provides a grassroots strategy for holding newly selected representatives accountable. The Get Out of Our House (GOOOH) movement represents a revolutionary effort to create a congressional body that will truly reflect the interests of the people.


Tim Cox received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a master’s degree in Business Administration from St. Edward’s University. He currently lives with his wife, Donna, in Liberty Hill, Texas. They have two children.

But lingering questions remain about who, exaclty, is bankrolling the group's efforts. In recent news reports, the group says it has raised some $20 million dollars. But because it's registered as a tax-exempt 501 (c)(4) group, it doesn't have to disclose its donors, inviting scrutiny from campaign finance reform groups who suspect that much of the money comes from wealthy hedge funders.

The members of each district will have an honest opportunity to replace the career politicians who have taken over OUR House and are destroying our nation.

eyeno wrote:Interesting idea but with Diebold voting machines how "honest" would it truly be?

Project Willow wrote:^^ The $20 mil quote was about Americans Elect, not Goooh sorry for the confusion.

It's fairly clear that Americans Elect is an elite run, top down project, while this Goooh is a sideways throw out from the libertarian right wing.