Interestingly, and as to Independent voters, if you are an Independent in Idaho, Prop 1 amendments to Idaho Code section 34-708 strikeout the section and replace it with a single sentence: “No person may offer himself as an independent candidate at the primary election.”
The destruction of party nominations is one target of Proposition 1. Today, candidates can represent themselves as being part of a party with discernable principles and articulated policy positions. Bumper-sticker
candidates with no ties to a party do not make better governance. An Independent Party should be allowed to offer candidates in an Idaho Independent primary.
To the extent Hagedorn believes that Independents can’t vote in the primary is only the extent to which Prop 1 wipes out the independent primary. In short, he argues against Prop 1, which actually puts into law what he complains about. Maybe he didn’t read it?
Hence my five-part review and analysis. Even if few read it, or few newspapers print it, I felt like someone ought to be giving a lawyer’s view of the Prop 1 language.
I’m going to put it on my website tomorrow and send a link around, which might be easier than waiting on regular media.
Interestingly, and as to Independent voters, if you are an Independent in Idaho, Prop 1 amendments to Idaho Code section 34-708 strikeout the section and replace it with a single sentence: “No person may offer himself as an independent candidate at the primary election.”
The destruction of party nominations is one target of Proposition 1. Today, candidates can represent themselves as being part of a party with discernable principles and articulated policy positions. Bumper-sticker
candidates with no ties to a party do not make better governance. An Independent Party should be allowed to offer candidates in an Idaho Independent primary.
To the extent Hagedorn believes that Independents can’t vote in the primary is only the extent to which Prop 1 wipes out the independent primary. In short, he argues against Prop 1, which actually puts into law what he complains about. Maybe he didn’t read it?
I honestly think very few Prop 1 supporters have actually read the text of the initiative.
Hence my five-part review and analysis. Even if few read it, or few newspapers print it, I felt like someone ought to be giving a lawyer’s view of the Prop 1 language.
I’m going to put it on my website tomorrow and send a link around, which might be easier than waiting on regular media.