Thirty-three South Dakota legislators have introduced HB 1291, which would provide that parties with state legislators should no longer have primaries for U.S. Senate. Instead, the state legislators would nominate their party’s U.S. Senate nominee. The bill says parties that don’t have state legislators could nominate for that office by party committee. Independent candidates would still be allowed to petition onto the general election ballot.
On February 12, the House Judiciary Committee defeated this bill 2-10. Thanks to Lori Stacey for this news.
Shocking — the Voters would continue to have more power than gerrymander oligarchs !!!
Can the 33 gangsters get the bill to the floor – regardless of 2-10 committee vote ???
Thanks to the 10 who voted against this suspiciously-sounding attempt at further eroding democracy. Which is not to say that the duopoly parties will do much better in producing good candidates either.
Interesting. It might have allowed an outsider to actually win by running as an independent or third party candidate, who could campaign against the legislative establishment.