TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS 6/1/10

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• On the Agenda: Snapshots of the upcoming election (By: Harvey Kronberg, News Austin 8)
• Tea party: Activists cause real problems for GOP (By Robert Watson, Sun Sentinel)

OPEN PRIMARIES

• The cowardly attack on a hero's record (By PETER WORTHINGTON, TORONTO SUN)
• Last minute info before heading to the polls (By Jeanie Powell, WAFF Alabama)

PROP 14

• Statewide voters will be asked to weigh in on five propositions on the June 8 ballot (The Desert Sun)
• Proposition 14 calls for open primaries (Jonathan Mumm, ABC News 10)
• Californians support open primary measure, polls show (BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI, San Diego News Room)
• Calif. voters to decide whether to open primaries (By SAMANTHA YOUNG (AP)
• Open-primary measure could reshape California' political system — or not. (By Denis C. Theriault, Mercury News)
• St. Abel's Vanity, Willful Ignorance, and Prop 14 (By Brian Leubitz, California Progress Report)
• Our View: Propositions -- The Sun-Star recommends ... (Merced Sun Star) yes on 14
• Little evidence in Washington that 'top two' primary moderates politics (By Torey Van Oot, Sac Bee)
• California Republicans will shift to caucus system if open primary initiative passes (By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, Oakland Tribune)

REDISTRICTING

• Florida redistricting attracts amendments, lawsuits (By CATHERINE WHITTENBURG | The Tampa Tribune)

GOVERNORS RACES

• NY GOP has rare uncertainty over governor’s race (Boston Herald)
• GLENN COOK: Harry Reid's easy ride almost over (Las Vegas Review Journal)

CALIFORNIA

• Whitman Leads in Republican Race for California Governor Nod (Business Week)

NEW YORK

• Andrew's duty (NY Post) But Working Families -- unlike the Independence Party -- isn't a political party at all; it's a clearinghouse through which elected officials are bought and sold by New York's public-employee unions.
• Proposal Could Shed Light on Who Helps Candidates (by Courtney Gross, Gotham Gazette) The push follows a Supreme Court ruling that lifted a ban on independent campaign spending by corporations. It also comes as the Manhattan district attorney investigates money funneled from the Independence Party last fall to a poll worker operation run by a campaign advisor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.