2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Closed Primaries, At This Point In A Race, Make The Most Sense [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but since you insist, I agree with you. The California Supreme Court agrees with you. I am just asking you that you do not burden the state with the running of your election. You do not get to play on our regularly scheduled June Election, (obviously not this year) and you get to run the full thing. You do understand why neither the Ds or the Rs accepted the offer from the state to decouple from the June Election, right? I know too much inside baseball, The cost. They did math... I know a thing... and it costs millions to run your primaries. The only reason the cost is less is that you happen to be on my machines, as a tax payer they belong to me and every other tax payer in the state, with silly shit like Prop I, the mayoral election, city hall. Things like that. Otherwise, your election would be through the roof. Imagine having to rent all those rooms for the precincts? I am almost betting on a caucus at that point. They are cheaper to run.
So you want a private party event run, I am sure it is time to have a nice class action as to why the voters should not fund any political party in the state, yes we are going to be nice and include all, that has a closed primary. If you have an open primary, sure come along.. we should be working to increase, not depress participation.
You can decide to inform the SOS that you do want to have a closed primary, it is after all, in the Constitution. The consequences should clearly be, that we as tax payers don't pay for it. Trust me, the Greens and the Rs will open their primary as well. It is real dollars and cents. But you want to be a private entity with your own private affair, pay for it.
You are claiming to be a private entity, fine, we both agree. Private businesses, unless they are the NFL, don't get such large subsidies. By the way, I understand why this is an impossible concept to get if you own an NFL team, or any other professional level sports team.
For the record, CA has an open primary for the Ds at this time.