On December 11, a Democratic Party activist filed a federal lawsuit to stop the Michigan Democratic presidential primary. Martha Hayes v Michigan Democratic Party and the Michigan Secretary of State, no. 1:07-cv-1237. The case is in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
Hayes says she wants to vote for one of the Democratic presidential candidates who is not on the Michigan Democratic primary ballot. Her lawsuit doesn’t say whom she wishes to vote for, but the missing major Democratic candidates are John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, and Joe Biden. The lawsuit charges that because the national Democratic Party won’t recognize the January 15 primary, she and other Michigan Democrats are being disenfranchised. Separate from that, supporters of the 4 particular missing candidates are also being disenfranchised. The lawsuit acknowledges the right of the Democratic National Committee to refuse to seat any delegates from Michigan, and blames the state Democratic Party and the state for the problem.
If the lawsuit were successful, the Democratic primary would be cancelled and the party would choose delegates by caucuses, at a time when the national rules would permit (i.e., February 5 or later).
I hope she wins her lawsuit. Democracy should NOT be about excluding people.
Michigan currently has some of THE most ANTI-Democracy EVIL party hack retarded MORONS on Mother Earth — both Donkeys and Elephants playing their party hack pre-school sandbox games — due to a super-EVIL combination of gerrymanders, term limits, the Guv veto and accumulated leftwing versus rightwing hostility — i.e. some sort of EVIL poltical HELL on Mother Earth.
Expect more stuff to happen in Michigan.
Actually, I hope she loses. I am personally not in favor of the favoritism shown Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina for their caucuses and primaries. States have every right to make sure that their primary takes place before the party nominee is known due to earlier primaries. There are also no intellectual insights to be gained by having three small states vote before the larger states do. I think we need to go to three or four primary dates, spread apart by two or three weeks, where the groups of states for each date would have a total delegate count that would be up for grades about equal for each date. These groups could rotate every Presidential season so one group doesn’t always go first. That way, both small and large states would have their primaries while it still meant something. That’s the only fair way to do it.
Why must we use Tax-Payer Money for the Republicratic Duopoly to decide their candidates while the other parties use conventions?