George Skelton, the dean of political columnists for the Los Angeles Times, writes here that it is time for California to stop using a top-two primary.
The column reveals that the state chair of the Democratic Party, Rusty Hicks, agrees with that.
George Skelton, the dean of political columnists for the Los Angeles Times, writes here that it is time for California to stop using a top-two primary.
The column reveals that the state chair of the Democratic Party, Rusty Hicks, agrees with that.
Then it would make sense for them to stop contesting the Peace and Freedom Party lawsuit against Top Two. But since when has the “Democratic” Party leadership listened to sense in the first place?
Hello, Richard.
Isn’t it interesting that for 16 years the Democratic Party has been perfectly happy with this set-up, but now that there’s a possibility that they could lose the Governor’s Office for this next term NOW they’re not so happy with it. Just think if this was happening in 2030 & California still had the previous system of drawing State & Congressional Districts. The Democrats hyper-majority might not even survive as a super-majority status.
Skelton is a communist.
Steve is acting like J. Edgar Hoover, who, in the late Eric Severeid’s TV comment years ago, figured all Democrats are socialists, all socialists are communists, and all communists are spies. As far as “Top Two” is concerned, it should be scrapped altogether.
NOOO primaries
NONpartisan execs/judics
approval voting
Oregon Bob: J. Edgar Hoover was right, if that actually is what he thought.
Deemer : that possibility is a mirage.
The nAZi-666 spambot is accidentally 33.33…% correct.
No primaries. At least not any government funded or managed ones.
The other two “ideas” would make things worse, not better, as is typical for the nAZi-666 spambot for reasons previously explained ad nauseam.
All Democrats are communists.
I highly doubt J. Edgar Hoover had any such thoughts, given that at the time White Southern Conservatives were by and large still Democrats, and many socially conservative, patriotic, Anticommunist blue collar workers up north were as well (they or their kids largely became “Reagan Democrats” and are now basically the MAGA wing of the GOP almost exactly).
The link to the Skelton article doesn’t appear to be working. And at the LA Times website it’s paywalled.
https://archive.is/31mwo works fine here.
The letters are too small to read but you can expand the screen by dragging it out with your fingers on your phone or in your phone settings as well as by turning your phone on its side if you have autorotate enabled.
It’s possible that archive.is was down momentarily or something. Try it again. If it still doesn’t get a different browser, clearing cache, restarting your phone etc.
Not that it’s worth doing any of those things, but if you really want to read it, try those.