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This PUMA says "Hold the Primary Reform Hearings Now!"
If you have been to the links I provided in my last post -- Will Senator Feinstein Follow Through with Hearings on Primary Reform? -- here and here, you should know by now that Senator Feinstein's primary reform bill sucks. Am I being too harsh?
Just Say No Deal! and PUMA seek REAL primary reform. (While Ed Rendell promises it as bait for the disenchanted.)
Time's a' wastin'!
Before Senator Nelson introduced his primary reform legislation on June 6, the only recent primary reform legislation pending in the Senate was Feinstein's.
The BIG PROBLEM with Feinstein's legislation is that it continues to allow caucuses and it continues to allow Iowa and New Hampshire to be first in the nation. Memo to Feinstein: Not a chance!
The BIG QUESTION now is whether Feinstein will actually follow through on her promises to have hearings on primary reform this month. Or, is Feinstein just fiddling while the DNC burns democracy to the ground?
You can call or write to Senator Feinstein (click here).
Senator Nelson's Bill covers exactly what I and I believe a lot of others have wanted. This is especially true after this Democratic Party primary mess.
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Beth
I did not see these points in Nelson's plan and yet these are what most of us objected to:
No reform is complete unless caucuses are eliminated, republican crossover voting is eliminated, the (super) delegate system is eliminated and every vote counts, the convention delegates voting for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state by a majority of the votes counted.
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Just letting you know I'm still reading... and still very, very disappointed.
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