George Skelton, Los Angeles Times reporter for California government, here argues that Governor Jerry Brown should veto both SB 568 and SB 149. The former bill moves the primary in all years, for all office, from June to March. The second bill requires presidential primary candidates to reveal their income tax returns.
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Stay focused on 2017 before you look ahead because our team has some heavy lifting in May of 2018.
On April 21st and 22nd 2018 the United Coalition will meet in Central Coast California and all California ballot-qualified candidates will be formally invited.
Believe it or not we’ve been organizing this project under pure proportional representation every year and every vote count has been conducted to mathematical perfection despite the strong opposition from all pluralistic party-boss-run civic groups including all those known as political parties in California.
The editorial argues for keeping the June primary, but fails to recognize that was a compromise date when the presidential and real primary were combined after WWII. Prior to that, the real primary was in August or September, and the presidential primary was in May.