On March 25, the Kansas Senate passed SB 239 unanimously. It abolishes the presidential primary. Kansas hasn’t actually had a presidential primary since 1992. Ever since, the legislature always suspends it before any particular presidential election year. Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news. The bill now goes to the House, where a similar bill already passed, so it is extremely likely that it will be eventually signed into law.
While the article gave no reason why this bill has passed and most likely will become law, I am wondering if the 14th amendment rights of candidates running for President are being violated? If a party is going to utilize the Presidential Preference Primary to select its nominee, then all states should be required to have one.
For one thing, without a presidential primary in a state, it allows the party bosses to connive ways of controlling who the delegates will be and to whom they will be committed. The Presidential Preference Primary was designed to take the nomination away from the political bosses, and let the nominee be someone favored by the members of the party. If the nominee should happen to turn out to be someone not good for the party – and the republic, the Electoral College becomes the political “spare tire” to correct the problem.
To return our republic back to the people, we’ve got to get Big Private Money out of politics, and a political process which guarantees at least 3 major parties, with each of the parties receiving equal amounts of public financing, and equal public exposure via the printed or electronic media.