On February 22, the Washington State Senate Government Operations Committee passed HB 1860, which provides for elections for party officers at the primary.
On February 22, the Washington State Senate Government Operations Committee passed HB 1860, which provides for elections for party officers at the primary.
They did it without any discussion in executive session. They sent it to the Senate rules committee. If you blinked you would have missed it.
In the committee materials accessible online it idicates 19 out of 20 precincts don’t get a race (for partisan-only precinct committee offices) between two more individuals, and when there is,(a race) it costs the county auditor more than $500.00. Shouldn’t someone on one of these committees before this turkey is sent to the governor’s desk ask: “What would prevent someone who does not have the genuine intrests of a particular major party at heart and running for PCO with(against technically) another individual so taxpayers money is wasted only to highlight that it can be wasted like this. As both major parties specialize in fundraising, they could finance their own elections and guard against interlopers simultaneously. And the state could then be in the position of saying it treats all parties the same and not providing a mega-advantage to two particular parties; not encoding into law the presupposition that these two particular major parties will always be THE two major parties!”
Yeah, why can’t one legislator say that, just one.
Why not clean up the Constitution instead?