On June 26, the Pennsylvania Senate voted to confirm Timothy Reese as Treasurer of the state. He is a registered independent. Treasurer is an elected partisan statewide office in Pennsylvania. That office is on the ballot in presidential election years. It will be interesting to see if Reese runs for a full term next year, and if he runs as an independent candidate. Only one Senator voted against Reese. Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, had nominated him back in April 2015, but it took the Senate quite a while to act on the nomination.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Pretty amazing. If he does run as an Independent it would likely be a GOP vs. him race because Wolf appointed him you would think the State Democrats would stay out of the race.
But any Democratic voter is free to run, if he or she can get 2,000 signatures to get on the primary ballot. The Democratic Party can’t just decide not to run anyone. That is one reason why political parties in the U.S. are so powerless, compared to political parties in every single other free country in the world. Only the U.S. forces parties to undergo government-administered primaries to determine their nominees.
I wonder if he will be as corrupt as the previous treasurer?
Reese has said he won’t run for a full term in 2016.
Richard writes: “Only the U.S. forces parties to undergo government-administered primaries to determine their nominees.”
Is the court of public opinion such a bad thing? Why should corrupt political parties (no PR), whose bosses rule with vile exclusionary and hostile single-winner voting systems be protected from free speech of “outsiders” that are trying to access a ballot?
I see. Ballot access controlled by those very people we want to replace. It’s control by the political party bosses that Ballot Access stands to protect.
Ballot Access News = Favors control of ballot access by political insider bosses.
Very delusional Jimmy boy!
Dear James Ogle, please name one person in California who is a “political boss”, or who was a political boss in your lifetime. For that matter, what is the definition of a “political boss”?