Fourteen of the Twenty Republican House Members Who Won’t Vote for Kevin McCarthy are from States That Let Independents Vote in Republican Primaries

Twenty U.S. House Republicans have been voting against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker. This blog post takes no position on the wisdom of these Representatives’ decision not to vote for their party’s nominee for Speaker. But it seems obvious that the twenty are not “centrists”, or “moderates”.

Open primaries, and proponents of eliminating party nominees in public elections, constantly claim that letting independent voters vote in primaries produce more moderate office-holders. Yet among the twenty who won’t vote for McCarthy, fourteen of them are from states in which independent voters can vote in Republican primaries.

Here is the list of the twenty. The six who are from closed primary states are one from Oklahoma, three from Florida, one from Pennsylvania, and one from Maryland.


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Fourteen of the Twenty Republican House Members Who Won’t Vote for Kevin McCarthy are from States That Let Independents Vote in Republican Primaries — 10 Comments

  1. APPEARS THE GERRYMANDER REP HACKS HAVE N-O-T TAKEN THE REQUIRED ART VI PARA 3 OATH TO SUPPORT THE USA CONST.

    MESS GOES BACK TO 1789.

    THE FIRST USA LAW WAS TO TAKE THE ART VI OATH — BUT ENACTED ABOUT 3 MONTHS AFTER A QUOREM SHOWED UP.
    —–
    THE FIRST THING FOR THE CLERK OF THE HREPS IS TO REQUIRE THE OATH TO PERSONS CERTIFIED AS BEING ELECTED IN THE 50 STATES.

    *** BEFORE*** ANY SPEAKER IS NOMINATED/ELECTED.

    SEE RELATED PREZ OATH –

    USA CONST 2-1-8. *** BEFORE HE ENTER ***

    TOO MANY CONLAW MORONS TO COUNT — ESP IN DUMB CITY.

  2. MESS IS PART OF TITLE 2 US CODE.

    PARTLY DUE TO ALL 435 REPS NEW VS 1/3 OF SENATE NEW IN EACH NEW CONGRESS.
    —–
    THE REPS CAN SURVIVE WITH NOOOO SPEAKER –
    HAVE DAILY ACTING SPEAKER, ALL APPOINT COMMITTEES, ALL VOTE ON BILL PRIORITIES, ETC.

    THE SPEAKER MONARCH ROT IS PART OF THE PREZ MONARCH ROT AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MONARCH ROT–

    LOVED BY THE MEDIA MORONS IN DEVIL CITY.

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)

    PART-
    Until the 17th century, members of the House of Commons often continued to view their speaker (correctly) as an agent of the Crown. As Parliament evolved, however, the speaker’s position grew to involve more duties to the House than to the Crown; this was definitely true by the time of the English Civil War. This change is sometimes said to be reflected by an incident in 1642, when King Charles I entered the House in order to search for and arrest five members for high treason. When the King asked him if he knew of the location of these members, the speaker, William Lenthall, replied: “May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.”[7]
    —–
    ENGLISH CIVIL WAR 1642-1649. [PART OF THIRTY YEARS WAR IN EUROPE 1618-1649]

    PARL VS KC I –

    KC1 ARRESTED, CONVICTED OF TREASON, BEHEADED IN 1649 – BEGINNING OF END OF TYRANT MONARCHS IN EUROPE.

  4. It is become more obvious that both major political parties are just shells for multiple factions that are parties in all but name.

  5. Is that a good or bad thing in your opinion? Honestly, I don’t know if it would be better or worse if they were multiple separate parties instead, so I am open to seeing arguments in either or both directions.

  6. The compromise for House speaker should be Justin Amash or Ron Paul. It is my understand that you don’t need to be a sitting member of the House to be the House speaker.

  7. 3 DISTRICT SIMPLE GERRYMANDER MATH EXAMPLE –

    DT A B TOT
    1 2 1 3
    2 2 1 3
    3 0 3 3
    —————
    T 4 5 9

    4 A GANG ELECTS 2

    5 B GANG ELECTS 1

    MORE DISTS AND MORE VOTERS >>> 1/2 VOTES X 1/2 DISTS = 1/4 CONTROL.
    ——–
    PR IN ALL REGIMES

  8. Andrew, why would they pick a fossil who is even older than the outgoing crypt keeper/speaker?

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