You may not have noticed, but the Regional<\/strike> California Republican Party is having a meeting this weekend, which they do semi-annually. However, this one looks like it may have a bit more long-term ramifications. It seems the Republicans have decided to take on the role of pre-primary electoral process.<\/p>\n
As you probably recall, the Proposition 14 system ends the partisan primary process and replaces it with a so-called “top-two” system, where the top two vote getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election. To be sure, that is something of an infuriating system for members of both parties. But, the Republicans have decided to do something about it. They’ll be sending out a ballot to every registered Republican, beginning in the 2014 statewide election.<\/p>\n
The plan was not without controversy, and it looks like it wasn’t going to happen until the modern day Reagan stepped into the fray.<\/p>\n
the vote capped often contentious debate at the state GOP convention being held in Sacramento in which outgoing state party Chairman Ron Nehring put forth a nomination plan that have would have let local party officials come up with endorsements. That sparked criticism from some delegates that the endorsement process would have been decided by a small cadre of political insiders.<\/p>\n
“The Republican Party will in essence be conducting its own party primary,” McClintock said. “It means in essence that we’ll be doing the job that the secretary of state once did. It’s going to require logistically a lot of work. … The important question is how we will restore the role of the rank-and-file voters across this state.””(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This should be an interesting experiment for the Republicans. How this works in practice, however, is still a big question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You may not have noticed, but the
Regional<\/strike> California Republican Party is having a meeting this weekend, which they do semi-annually. However, this one looks like it may have a bit more long-term ramifications. It seems the Republicans have decided to take on the role of pre-primary electoral process.<\/p>\nAs you probably recall, the Proposition 14 system ends the partisan primary process and replaces it with a so-called “top-two” system, where the top two vote getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election. To be sure, that is something of an infuriating system for members of both parties. But, the Republicans have decided to do something about it. They’ll be sending out a ballot to every registered Republican, beginning in the 2014 statewide election.<\/p>\n
The plan was not without controversy, and it looks like it wasn’t going to happen until the modern day Reagan stepped into the fray.<\/p>\n
the vote capped often contentious debate at the state GOP convention being held in Sacramento in which outgoing state party Chairman Ron Nehring put forth a nomination plan that have would have let local party officials come up with endorsements. That sparked criticism from some delegates that the endorsement process would have been decided by a small cadre of political insiders.<\/p>\n
“The Republican Party will in essence be conducting its own party primary,” McClintock said. “It means in essence that we’ll be doing the job that the secretary of state once did. It’s going to require logistically a lot of work. … The important question is how we will restore the role of the rank-and-file voters across this state.””(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This should be an interesting experiment for the Republicans. How this works in practice, however, is still a big question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[301,8536],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-301","tag-8536"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}