[geeks] California Proposition 14

[Nick B.]

Embarassing professional politicans is next to godliness.  Or was that
splattering their brains?
Something like that.
	Nick
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 07:18:54PM -0400, Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I see no way in hell that that's a positive.
> >
> > Indeed.  It's an effective way for people who hold minority viewpoints
> > (which usually includes me) to make their voices heard.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
> 
> Flash back a few years to the California Governor recall election and
> how everyone and anyone who could be was on the ballot. An amazing
> exercise in democracy, in many ways, but it was an embarrassment to
> the professional politicians.
> 
> Here in Indiana it is extremely hard for a 3rd party candidate to get
> on many ballots, and even for one of the two-party candidates to get
> on the ballot for a federal election. Most of the rules exist solely
> to ensure the system remains a two-party system.
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