“It’s particularly disturbing that at a moment when millions of independents are knocking at the door of an electoral process from which they are excluded, Ralph Nader and the third party movement would want to slam it shut.” (From “Should state adopt an open primary? Yes” by independent attorney Harry Kresky in Sunday’s Sac Bee)
Why is Ralph Nader opposing California open primary Proposition 14? The sometime Green/ sometime independent Presidential candidate now wants to Stop the Top Two, the popular open primary initiative that will be on the ballot in California June 8…. Thanks to Independent Political Report for the heads up about Ralph.
OPEN PRIMARIES
Maybe We Should End Primary Elections (Bob Schieffer, CBS News) Response to Phil Keisling’s oped in NYTimes Get Rid of Partisans
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Provocateur/ pundit/ organizer Nancy Hanks is a long-time activist in the independent political movement who’s done it all: petitioning to put independent candidates on the ballot from New York to Texas and points east, west, north and south; fundraising for the independent think tank, the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), and its online counterpart, IndependentVoting.org; running as an independent for New York City Council from Queens, New York City’s most diverse borough; serving as the current Treasurer of the Queens County Committee of the Independence Party of New York (of the IP NYC Organizations); conducting research for the Neo-Independent, a magazine that addresses the concerns of independent voters.