Posted on 01/27/2017 7:23:24 PM PST by artichokegrower
Recently introduced state legislation would relax voter registration rules, allowing California legislative candidates to live far outside the district they seek to represent.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Then they won’t have to live with the illegal aliens they bribe for votes
It makes a mockery of representative democracy, but that’s Democrats for you.
Bad idea. Obviously designed to let some Ahole politician “represent” some dangerous slum without having to risk trying to
Live/ Stay alive there hisself
More overt corruption from the center of corruption. Why even have reps at all when you can have anyone with enough votes representing anyone, no matter where they live? Coming soon, people in Europe representing Californians. Par for the course for the rabid leftist Moonbeam.
Liberals never like to live near the problems which their bone-headed policies create.
What’s wrong ? The elites don’t wanna live near the low lives they import ?
You’re only good for your money and your votes...otherwise, Screw off
So the “RAT Leaders” just have a list of their closest friends, and they assign them to run in a given district. The corruption in Sacramento is so extreme that it transcends Washington DC by a wide margin.
Yes, it's a ways away, but I still feel your pain :)
Statists do that...rule from far away. George III’s taxes, FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society, etc. All rely that decisions from those afar off know what is better for a constituency than local governments, or, God forbid, the free market!
California Demorats, continuing to demolish the concept of representatives being representative of the people they are a part of. Next they’ll allow “local” representatives to live out of state. Then in as much as they don’t care if you are an American citizen or not, they will slide that slippery slope further and allow district representatives to be foreign nationals that actually live out of the country.
.... in places like Peru, or Argentina, or Venezuala.
Proposition 14 is a California ballot proposition that appeared on the ballot during the June 2010 state elections. It was a constitutional amendment that effectively transformed California’s non-Presidential elections from first-past-the-post to a nonpartisan blanket primary (similar to a two-round system). The proposition was legislatively referred to voters by the State Legislature and approved by 54% of the voters.
It consolidated all primary elections for a particular office into an election with one ballot that would be identical to all voters, regardless of their party preferences. The two candidates with the most votes in the primary election would then be the only candidates who would run in the general election, regardless of their party affiliation.
The end result of this is that well known and well financed Democrats will run for office in whatever legislative district they feel has a weak Republican presence. This will result in two Democrats being on the ballot and no Republicans like this year’s senate race.
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