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Thursday, August 24, 2006

California: What's an independent to do????

From Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee:
...The gulf between the Legislature and reality widened further five years ago when leaders of the two major parties cooked up a redistricting deal to fix the Capitol's status quo by designating the party ownership of all 120 legislative districts. It strengthened the influence of narrow interest groups in party primaries, rendered the November elections meaningless and effectively disenfranchised millions of independent voters.... [more]

Whacha gonna do? Call Party-Busters!!:

From IndyBay
CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENTS DRIVE REFORM AGENDA INTO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
by Jason Olson ( jolson [at] independentvoice.org ) Tuesday Aug 22nd, 2006 12:14 PM
San Francisco, CA …
IndependentVoice.org, a California organization which promotes the power of the state’s 3.6 million independent voters, launched the next stage of a campaign today to directly involve independent voters in the upcoming California gubernatorial election by introducing their agenda for political reform and challenging all candidates to endorse it. [more]

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