The parties are funded through a system that collects voter registration information for them (they know who is in their parties because the counties register the voters for them), and the state/counties pay for the primaries, which are used to select their nominees.
I'm saying the government should get completely out of the business of running party primaries. Let each party hold its own caucus, convention, convening, mail-in ballot, conscensus meeting (which the Greens would probably prefer) at their own expense and under their own rules and oversight. Then at primary time, voters would choose (from the party nominees and qualified independents) which ever candidates they prefer to advance to the general election. H. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:10 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: kicking the party out of politics Interesting, are the primaries funded in any way by government? If not I'd have to side with the court on that particular issue. I definitely agree on the overall issue though. As a side note, that's an awesome web site for a local newspaper... jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a column I wrote for the local paper: > > http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_1013185,00.html > > > linemonster > linemonster > linemonster > > > > H. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
