Kansas does not hold presidential primaries; all Kansas parties use caucuses to choose delegates to national conventions. According to this story, Randall Terry, who has appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballots in a few states this year, will sue the Kansas Democratic Party because the party’s caucus ballots won’t list him as a presidential candidate.
Also, recently the Oklahoma Democratic Party ruled that Terry won’t receive any delegates, even though he won enough votes in the state’s Democratic primary to qualify for some delegates, because he didn’t file paperwork concerning delegates and also because the National Democratic Party recently determined that he is not a bona-fide Democrat.
At least Oklahoma’s decision isn’t without precedent. The DNC often refused to seat Lyndon LaRouche’s delegates.
I hope that Randall Terry will lose the case. He does not deserve to be put on the ballot.
To increase ballot access, I hope he wins.
Randall Terry meets all of the requirements to be on the ballot — he’s at least 35, is a natural-born citizen [both parents are US citizens], and has been in the US for at least 14 years. Thus, he meets all of the qualifications to be president, and thus “deserves” to be on the ballot.
Or are you saying that Randall Terry is a second-class person undeserving of citizenship and citizen’s rights because of his beliefs? Perhaps, then, we should require him to put a yellow six-pointed star on his garments and send him on a train ride somewhere. Our nation fought a major war against someone with that thinking. It’s scary that we have that thinking here.
Note: Unless the Democratic Party went through the steps of Section 63 of Roberts Rules of Order, 11th Edition, which I know they didn’t, they cannot kick him out of the party if he registered as a Democrat.
I agree that he should be allowed on the ballot. He fulfills the constitutional requirements to run for President.
Plus, and regardless of whether the DNC thinks Mr. Randall Terry is a “legitimate” Democrat (whatever that means), the fact remains that he beat President Obama in 12 Oklahoma counties.
In a somewhat related matter, President Obama lost a few parishes (Louisiana’s equivalent to counties) in Saturday’s primary; and in some others won with either a very small majority (over 45% voting against him), or a plurality (with a majority voting against him).
In the Alabama primary, President Obama lost a few counties to “Uncommitted.”
I hope he wins the case and they allow him on the ballot. Otherwise, the name “Democratic” wouldn’t truly apply to that party.
Nevertheless, I’d like to see Obama win at least 80% of the primaries, and, I’d like to see Obama re-elected, and, I’m moving to another country if he loses re-election. By the way, if I wanted to, I could have refused to read your comments.
Can the Democratic Party claim to be “Democratic” if they do this? Didn’t they refuse to allow Bob Casey to speak in 1992?
That’s true what you’ve said about Obama in Oklahoma and Louisiana and maybe Alabama, but, for the most part, he’s received at least 80% of the Democratic primary or caucus votes in every state that’s had one for the Democrats, and, he still has, as a whole, the high-80’s percent of the Democratic primary votes.
There’s one other thing I forgot to mention, and, that is that, as I understand it, Randall Terry failed to meet the deadline for being on the ballot for at least the Democratic caucus in Kansas. So, it was for a reason that I thought the way I did. Perhaps I should have mentioned that, at that time.
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