Sarasota, Florida Daily Newspaper Carries Op-Ed on Florida Top-Two Initiative

The Sarasota Herald-tribune has this op-ed by the chair of the Florida Republican Party about the top-two initiative that is likely to qualify for the Florida 2020 ballot. State Senator Joe Gruters correctly points out that the top-two initiative is not an initiative for an “open primary.” He also says that while proponents claim their initiative would promote centrist politics, that has not happened in California, which continues to have the most polarized legislature in the nation after nine years of the top-two system.


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Sarasota, Florida Daily Newspaper Carries Op-Ed on Florida Top-Two Initiative — 6 Comments

  1. Top 2 primary — one more MORON so-called reform by the usual suspect math MORONS —

    esp in connection with rigged gerrymander commissions making rigged ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders.

    —-
    NO primaries.

    Equal Ballot Access

    PR and AppV and TOTSOP

  2. Just because the initial stage of an election is not a segregated partisan election closed to full participation by voters, does not mean it is not a primary election. ‘primary’ is an adjective meaning first.

  3. Yes it’s a “primary” election, just not an “open primary” as 99% of the world uses the term

  4. @BL,

    What percentage of Chinese know what a primary is, let alone what an “open primary” is.

    Outside of Louisiana, what part of the general populace is familiar with term?

  5. How many State consts give any STATUS/mention to caucuses, primaries and conventions – esp party hack stuff ???

    — ie severely infected State regimes.

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