On May 27, Louisiana HB 776 was defeated in the House Committee on the House and Government Affairs, by a vote of 13-4. Thanks to Randall Hayes for this news. HB 776 would have eliminated congressional primaries for qualified parties with registration under 40,000 members.
The hearing lasted 90 minutes. Representatives of the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the NAACP, and the College Republicans, all testified against the bill.
Skip to 34 min. to get the discussion of HB776:
http://house.louisiana.gov/rmarchive/Ram/RamMay09/0527_09_HG.ram
damned Real Player. I wish the legislature would switch to something more common like .mp3 or .ogg (can we get a bill requiring open source for the entire state government?) I tried opening it with my DivX player which is supposed to read RM files – no luck. Quiktime will simply act like it’s playing but no sound comes out. And RealAlternative for Windoze just hangs. I’m not about to download that crapper of a piece of software they call Real Player to any of my computers ever again, so I guess I won’t get to watch legislative hearings.
If anyone has it in another format, or even in the RM format downloaded so I can convert it that would be most appreciated.
Whoever does these uploads for the legislature needs to get with the 21st century. RealMedia is garbage.