On December 22, California’s Governor chose Assemblymember Shirley Weber to be the new Secretary of State. California has a vacancy in that position because the Governor appointed former Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be the new U.S. Senator from California.
Weber is a Democrat from San Diego. In legislative hearings that discussed the California top-two system, Assemblywoman Weber has criticized that system because it almost invariably prevents minor party members from running for Congress and partisan state office in the general election. She is a warm-hearted person, and a former chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, and is well-informed about election laws.
warm-hearted enough for REAL reforms ???
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PR and NONPARTISAN AppV — pending Condorcet.
TOTSOP
Warm hearted? Biased much? Just admit you support the communist democrats.
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Either the governor was unaware that she is sympathetic towards minor parties’ rights and thus free and fair elections, or the governor has already been assured that she’ll continue the bi-partisan tradition of infringing upon the rights of minor parties. The former would be nice to see in a state as big and consequential as CA.
How does she feel about expanding the size of the legislature? California has an absurdly small legislature with districts bigger than Congressional districts.
Ironically, in Weber’s election in 2014, the American Independent candidate received the largest share for that party in a secondary (November) election.
Richard Winger elevates party rights above those of voters or individual candidates.
Weber would do best by restoring California statute to that approved by voters as Propositon 14, before Debra Bowen, perhaps at the behest of unionized SOS workers, vandalized.
She should propose gutting of Division 7 of the Elections Code.
@Jim
>Ironically, in Weber’s election in 2014, the American Independent candidate received the largest share for that party in a secondary (November) election.
Only because literally no one else ran in the jungle primary. In fact I believe Williams, her opponent, ran as a write-in candidate because otherwise she would have been unopposed. Kinda shitty system where the only time minor parties candidates get to the actual election is if no one else bothers to run since the race itself is ridiculously uncompetitive.