[Vision2020] Legislative Newsletter IX March 5-9, 2012

[Donovan Arnold]

Dan,
 
It isn't about hypocrisy, although that is not in short supply with any political party. I didn't approve of the caucus system. But my point is that Republicans seek ways to exclude people, not include people. I don't see Democrats or any other political party for that matter, making efforts to reduce the numbers of people participating in elections and caucuses as the Republicans are doing by having a closed primary system and moving to a closed caucus system. Democrats have had an increasing number of people attend and vote in the last 12 years. Republicans have worked in the other direction. There is nothing hypocritical about it, that is just the way the Idaho Republican Party operates, and their leaders will admit is as so. If they denied it, then it would be hypocritical, but they don't. 
 
Donovan Arnold

From: Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Legislative Newsletter IX March 5-9, 2012


Donovan says:
 
“It looks like the Republicans are accomplishing their goals. Maybe in 2016 they can disenfranchise more people and get it down to about 1,000 by only allowing people that get a VIP invitation and donate $10000 to the Party to be able to attend.  You cannot just be letting any old person in Idaho show up at a caucus and vote for the Republican Party Primary Candidates now can you? 
 
This is the way Idaho Republicans Party leaders think. And it is no wonder so many of the few remaining good people in the Idaho Legislature are moving on by not running again.”
 
 
Didn’t the democrats have a presidential caucus in Idaho in 2008?  Why yes, they did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Democratic_caucuses,_2008
 
You didn’t have to be a registered democrat at the time of the caucus, but “Caucus attendees were required to sign a pledge that they planned on voting Democratic in the county in which they were caucusing.”
 
Not a fan of hypocrisy, from either side,
 
DC
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