This Los Angeles Times article says that Abel Maldonado, one of the leading forces for California’s top-two system back in 2009, now favors returning to a traditional system in which parties have nominees. But he favors a provision that says independent voters can vote in any party’s primary.
In 2009, the California legislature put the top-two measure on the ballot because Maldonado, then a State Senator, said he would vote for the budget if the legislature passed a bill to put top-two on the ballot. He had tremendous power at the time, because California was suffering a two-month old delay in passing the budget. The Constitution at that time required a two-thirds vote in each house, and Republican legislators wouldn’t vote for the budget, and they had just enough votes to stop it. When Maldonado agreed to vote for the budget, the budget passed.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ex-dem-insider-reveals-she-093011484.html
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Wow, this is pretty big and surprising news. I never thought one of the biggest backers of Top Two Primary, and a Democrat, would turn against it.
Kudos to Abel Maldonado for seeing the error of his ways and repenting on this issue.
Too bad that the nAZi-666 crAZy AZeri spambot is incapable of repenting.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/scrambling-avoid-blame-reflecting-pool-130906656.html
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If Thomas W. Jones was still alive, he’d be the senile doofus. And if President Trump was a tyrant, the crAZy AZeri nAZi-666 spambot would already be deprogrammed, it’s programmer would already be tortured in a secret prison or dead, and this website would already be offline.
Maldonado was my state senator at the time, and I never understood why he wasted such incredible leverage on such a poor election system. At the time, I anticipated the mess. I don’t know why he couldn’t. (I also don’t know why he yet again is showing his lack of imagination by just supporting a return to the pre-2012 system.)
The AZ SPAMBOT nonsense would be easy to laugh at or ignore if it wasn’t for all the attempts to assassinate President Trump.