The Florida Republican Party will hold a fund-raising event November 13-14. Tickets are $200 without the dinner, and $300 with the dinner. To attract an audience, the party’s presidential candidates are invited to speak. The Florida Republican Executive Board is thinking over a proposal to bar any presidential candidate who fails to appear from the March 2016 primary ballot.
Florida and Georgia are the only states in which the election law gives the party complete control over which presidential candidates are listed on party ballots. In each state, the Republican state chair, the leader of the Republican Party in the State Senate, and the leader of the Republicans in the State House have complete control over who qualifies for the ballot. Neither state allows write-ins in primaries.
See this story. The decision will be final in ten days. Republican Party leaders seem to have no concept that keeping candidates off the ballot is an assault on voters who wish to vote for those candidates. It is plausible that if this plan is adopted, and one of the recognized Republican presidential candidates is excluded, that candidate and voters could sue.
Extortion by Republicans. Love it.
Where is the New Age Union Army to liberate GA and FL from its TYRANTS ???
See Gen. Sherman in 1864-1865 in doing his part to wipe out the slave regimes in GA, SC and NC.
One more reason to — ABOLISH the EVIL rotted Electoral College.
P.R. and nonpsrtisan App.V.
Any USA RICO act stuff going on regarding the top Elephants ???
R in RICO = Racket = CRIMINAL conspiracy
I’d like to see what would happen if a fringe Republican candidate like Jimmy (“The Rent Is Too Damn High”) McMillan agreed to come to the fundraiser and demanded that he be placed on the primary ballot for having done so.
If this were a case of “come to our fundraiser to help us pay for the primary you want to run in”, this might make sense. But wait. The state of Florida pays for these partisan primaries. So many things wrong with this!