{"id":8679,"date":"2009-04-27T22:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:15:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-27T22:15:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:15:50","slug":"hey-sacramento-pols-cut-the-supermajority-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/27\/hey-sacramento-pols-cut-the-supermajority-whining\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Sacramento pols: cut the “supermajority” whining"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief note, but a serious one.  Stop the whining about the supermajority threshold of 60% to get an endorsement.  Because seriously: when you start whining, you open yourself up to complete ridicule from people like me who actually know what the party bylaws<\/a> (warning: PDF) say about the matter–specifically, Article VIII, Section 2, paragraph c, subparagraph (8): <\/p>\n

Endorsement of an incumbent candidate seeking reelection shall require a vote of simple majority of the caucus members present and voting. Endorsement of all non-incumbent candidates shall require sixty percent (60%) of those caucus members present and voting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This special protection for incumbent candidates is, of course, the only exception to the 60% threshold in the entire bylaws that govern the endorsement process.<\/b>  And for the record, it’s the only thing that allowed Senator Migden to get the endorsement recommendation last year, because she only got 55%.  So, the 60% threshold for  propositions is far from being a “quirk” in the process.  It’s a feature, not a bug, and it’s the norm for all but one class of endorsements the CDP makes.<\/b>  And to those who have been going around talking as if it’s a bug<\/a>—you’re lying.<\/b>  You wanted it to be this way because you thought it served your own interests.  Sometimes, though, the rules do have a strange way of working against you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief note, but a serious one.  Stop the whining about the supermajority threshold of 60% to get an endorsement.  Because seriously: when you start whining, you open yourself up to complete ridicule from people like me who actually know what the party bylaws<\/a> (warning: PDF) say about the matter–specifically, Article VIII, Section 2, paragraph c, subparagraph (8): <\/p>\n

Endorsement of an incumbent candidate seeking reelection shall require a vote of simple majority of the caucus members present and voting. Endorsement of all non-incumbent candidates shall require sixty percent (60%) of those caucus members present and voting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This special protection for incumbent candidates is, of course, the only exception to the 60% threshold in the entire bylaws that govern the endorsement process.<\/b>  And for the record, it’s the only thing that allowed Senator Migden to get the endorsement recommendation last year, because she only got 55%.  So, the 60% threshold for  propositions is far from being a “quirk” in the process.  It’s a feature, not a bug, and it’s the norm for all but one class of endorsements the CDP makes.<\/b>  And to those who have been going around talking as if it’s a bug<\/a>—you’re lying.<\/b>  You wanted it to be this way because you thought it served your own interests.  Sometimes, though, the rules do have a strange way of working against you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2fZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}