Independents and Washington's Magic Show, NYC Charter Revision and Nonpartisan Elections, California Prop 14

If you haven't yet read Jackie Salit's Independents See Through Washington's Magic Show, here's a link to Chicago online SWNewsHerald, and keeping up with CNN's Broken Government series, transcript of Don Lemon's panel last Sunday on TMV.... And in the area of election reform, Liz Benjamin of the NY Daily News linked Harry Kresky's Hankster piece "Bloomberg Charter Revision Commission Should Address Nonpartisan Elections", while the discussion of Prop 14 continues. Speaking of Prop 14, Richard Winger will write a guest post for The Hankster later this week delineating his position on Prop 14 and open primaries.


INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Independents See Through Washington’s Magic Show (By JACKIE SALIT, Southwest News Herald - Chicago) Odds And Ends (Elizabeth Benjamin, Daily News Daily Politics) Salit: Obama needs to perform real magic (links to yesterday's Vacaville CA Reporter)
• Independents And Obama: A Closer Look (Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic)
• Independent Voters and “Broken Government” (POSTED BY JOE GANDELMAN, The Moderate Voice) Full transcript of CNN Don Lemon Sunday piece

NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS

• Harry Kresky: Bloomberg Charter Revision Commission Should Address Nonpartisan Elections (by Harry Kresky, The Hankster) linked to News Of The Day (Elizabeth Benjamin, Daily News/Daily Politics) City Independence Party attorney Harry Kresky wants the Charter Revision Commission to focus on nonpartisan elections.

OPEN PRIMARIES

• Would Proposition 14 limit choices? Only false ones (Redding.com/The Record Searchlight - Northern CA Shasta County)
• Challenges scramble ambitions of two candidates (By DOROTHY SCHNEIDER, Journal & Courier - Indiana) Norman Klinker of Lafayette goes back and forth between party tickets in the primary to “vote for who I think is best.” And he agrees with McCloud that the candidates should be able to run with whichever party they choose.