Ralph Nader will be interviewed on KGO radio (810 on the am dial) in San Francisco at 9:35 a.m., on the Ronn Owens show, about California’s Proposition 14, on Monday (today), June 7. Nader opposes Proposition 14, the top-two election measure that makes it impossible for voters to vote for anyone but a Democrat and/or a Republican in Congressional elections in November. This statement is based on what actually happened in Washington state when that state used a top-two system for the first time in 2008.
Christina Tobin, founder of Free and Equal, will be on KPFK radio (90.7 FM) in Los Angeles on Proposition 14, on Monday (today), June 7, at 4:30 p.m.
All times are Pacific time.
Good luck Ralph and Christina on these efforts.
It seems to me that a lawsuit should be initiated on the MISAPPLICATION of the primary election. The primary is not supposed to be a preliminary round, rather it is for the purpose of the individual political parties to allow their voters to select their candidates.
The act of banning four of six legal political parties from a general election ballot smacks of 1933 Germany. The jack-boots are goose stepping in California.
The Constitution Party of West Virginia’s position on primaries:
“…ultimately, and because of the tremendous additional cost of primary elections to our state, we feel that primaries should be replaced with simple Iowa-style caucuses all on a designated day and time, spread out throughout the counties in various school [facilities], and at the complete expense of the respective political parties. The above measures would simplify to the point of efficiency and effectiveness the vote cast by West Virginia electors.”
Read more at http://cpwv.org/philosophy/state-platform/
Click here and see especially “History” and “Louisiana System.”
This was written during the 2004 “top two” initiative campaigns in California and Washington state.
Thank you very much, Mr. Nader and Ms. Tobin!
Best of luck tomorrow to all of the good folks — especially Richard and Christina — who’ve worked so hard to defeat Proposition 14.