Thursday, June 10, 2010

Prop 14 and New York Primary Madness


So the election is over and Proposition 14 won in California. I like it.
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It makes the primary completely open and the top 2 vote getters proceed to a run off. The parties hate it, but that is because they divide up the state into safe districts. My favorite argument against Prop 14 was some ad that only 1 incumbent in Washington was set out after they putting something like this in place. Hey, that is 1 more than California!
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New York's primary is not until September, but we don't get to vote on anything. There is this weird "Party" conference where they decide who gets to be in the primary. For governor there will be 1 choice for the Republicans and 1 choice for Democrats. So we are stuck with the Party choices no matter what.
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Whatever.