Posted on 03/20/2011 2:53:58 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
California GOP rejects divisive open primary plan
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Republicans on Sunday approved a compromise that leaves in place the current nominating system for GOP candidates in 2012 and will let party members use mail-in balloting to endorse candidates for office starting in 2014.
The party was beset by infighting at its weekend spring convention in Sacramento over how to respond to Proposition 14, the voter-approved ballot measure that was intended to produce more moderate candidates for office from both political parties. Under that system, the top two candidates advance to the general election, regardless of party affiliation.
The GOP delegates on Sunday passed a plan that calls on the party to let members vote by mail to nominate candidates, starting in 2014. It was unclear how the vote-by-mail process will occur, how much it will cost or whether it will have any real effect on campaigns by discouraging other Republicans from aggressively contesting primary seats.
Delegates rejected a more conservative plan that could have allowed small groups of local party officials—who are the most actively involved internal party politics and campaigning—to decide the nominees. Instead, they opted to rely on the system used now for special election candidates, in which local officials can endorse a candidate by a two-thirds majority of all central committee members in a district.
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I'm glad they didn't vote for the plan to let party elites (which I wouldn't call a "conservative plan" as the article claims) choose our nominees for us.
Also at the convention, Tom Del Beccaro is the new CAGOP chairman. We’ll see how much different the CAGOP is run.
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The open primary thing is simply idiocy. It was designed to make Kalipornia a one-party state.
And Prop 14 was put on the ballot by “Republican” Abel Maldonado, the enemy within.
You are correct, and that is exactly what will happen.
California has a GOP?
When did they start up?
I have only been here since ‘57.
It would just make the current state of affairs official. The CAGOP has been RINO for years. I think Deukmejian was the last governor to show any vestiges of conservatism. Gerrymandered districts make the legislature permanently Democrat.
Its called a closed primary. Repubs vote for Repubs, progressiviks for Demcoms....how hard can that be?
If only the idiots in New Hampshire could figure this out.
You are right on two fronts. Duke was the last Republican governor that we could consider to be reasonably conservative. The Republican party is this state has been disorganized for years and full of a few traitors. Our most recent governor was about as Republican as Joe Biden.
The result has been a legislature able to be gerrymandered by the Dems so that their control truly was solidified. For 2012, redistricting will be under the control of a so-called bipartisan committee. Let’s hope it sets reasonable legislative district boundaries. Hope springs eternal.
As for the current Repubs, my recently elected state senator, Emerson, has been one of the 5 Repubs meeting with Brown’s people. If he turns out to be another traitor, I trust my district will send his ass packing or even recall him. I am so tired of this crap, I will gladly work to defeat him if he turns out to be one of Brown’s butt boys.
Probably will continue so long as the state party undercuts any and all conservatives to push forward their 'big tent' ideals that no one, including conservatives, want. You will always fail if you put forward candidates that are liberal lite; it's like putting a can of Coke and next to it a can of supermarket brand cola and expecting voters to choose the off brand.
Or to put it in a more political sense, it's like Mitt Romney, during a Republican presidential debate, saying he likes government mandates, because government mandates work, and expecting voters to think that there's some distinct difference between him and Obama.
Well, it is, after all, stating the obvious...
Hey 3 C’s, if Tom dB walks the walk like he talks the talk,this could be a big turning point for the CAGOP. He was endorsed almost unanimously by the county committees AND the CRA.....
Met and talked with him at our RCC meeting in Feb.
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