On December 8, New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke in Brooklyn about what the federal government should be doing to improve the national economy. See this Daily News story, which says that the Mayor criticized politicians from both major parties.
Jim Riley Says [in an earlier post]:
December 7th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
#5 The California Constitution says that the State may require a party to place the winner of a primary on the general election ballot. In 2008, this would have meant that Hillary Clinton, Ralph Nader, Don Grundmann, and Christine Smith would have displaced Barack Obama, Cynthia McKinney, Alan Keyes, and Bob Barr from the ballot. Maybe the State (or voters through the initiative) will implement this by then. Or maybe Top 2 will be implemented for Presidential elections as well.
Wouldn’t it make sense to move the party committee elections to be coincident with the presidential primary, so that election officials don’t have to mess with partisan ballots at the regular primary, which then only have non-partisan and voter-nominated offices, and propositions. Also if county central committees are elected in February, then you won’t have lame duck committee members making endorsements for the voter-nominated or nonpartisan offices. In non-presidential years, an all-mail ballot in February could be used.
Until WWII, the California primary was in August. It was moved to June to be combined with the presidential primary as a cost saving measure during the war. Now that the presidential primary has been moved to winter, wouldn’t it make sense to restore the primary to August?
Have the Sacramento County Central Committee defined their procedures for making endorsements which will appear on the sample ballot for voter-nominated offices? IIUC, that authority is vested in the county parties, though I suppose a party rule could require county parties to use a decision arrived at by the state or district party.
Phil Sawyer responds:
The above message does not make any sense to me in any way at all. That is one of the main problems with the “top-two” system. This (“top-two”) is a new method of organizing elections that creates all kinds of new problems and the proponents are not able to solve them in any logical and rational way. So, they make up answers that have no basis in reality.
Very simple —
BALANCE ALL govt budgets = NO deficits in peacetime.
The private economy gets SHOCKED by deficits = LESS capital investment.
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P.R. and App.V — before it is too late and the econ MORON party hacks destroy civilization.