Major Parties, Minor Parties and Anti-Parties

Courtesy Donklephant  Wed, 12/16/2009 - 7:30am

Major Parties, Minor Parties and Anti-Parties Momentum continues to build for open primaries in California, and most but not all partisans (including minor partisans like Libertarians and Greens) don’t support primaries that would allow everyone including nonpartisans to participate in the first round of voting… NYC Independence Party (aka the “anti-party Party because of its support for nonpartisan elections and open primaries) brought in $65K at Monday night’s Anti-Corruption Awards recognizing grassroots activists Not a bad follow-up to the final...


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