Kentucky holds elections in November 2011 for all the statewide state executive posts, including Secretary of State. The Democratic and Republican primaries are May 18. Two Republicans are running against each other for the party’s nomination for Secretary of State. Bill Johnson and Hilda Legg debated each other on April 18. Here is a four-minute you tube, in which Michael Lewis, calling in, asked each candidate whether independent voters should be allowed to vote in major party primaries. Johnson said “yes”; Legg said “no.”
Neither candidate is an office-holder currently. Neither candidate mentioned that if the Republican Party wants to invite independents into its primary, it need not wait for the legislature to authorize a bill on that subject. Political parties with their own primary have a constitutional right to invite independents to vote into their primary, regardless of state law, as a result of the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut.
The SCOTUS morons in the T case did NOT detect that there are PUBLIC nominations of PUBLIC candidates for PUBLIC offices.
i.e. determined by PUBLIC laws –
i.e. all voters or some voters doing the nominations — as determined by such PUBLIC laws
i.e. IF by some voters – then with or without other voters (in parties or independents) – as determined by such laws — and NOT as determined by any sub-faction of ALL voters.
i.e. one more MORON SCOTUS case to be over-ruled ASAP.
P.R. and App.V. — NO moron primaries are needed.
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