This news shows that Democrats care more about democratic elections, for Republicans, than republican leaders care about it.
One of the reasons the Dems take this position is that SB600 is led by Paul Froehlich, who was made personna non grata by Cross/Savianno specifically because he was the House sponsor of the bill when he was a Republican. Part of the switch to Dem by Paul might have been a promise by Madigan to support Paul’s pet legislation.
(Of course, the combine was bent on destroying Froehlich before SB600 because Froehlich opposed Kjellander as GOP National Committeeman.)
Not really. Selecting the party leaders from those elected to lower offices is how we elected senators until 1910. The founders would be hip with this form of indirect republicanism.
We had people complain that mccain got selected by non-republicans. opening up the party leader elections to primary voters runs that risk.
The Ill GOP is in such bad shape this cant hurt it too much, but dont assume this is a good change.
A better system would be to elect the precinct chairs and county chairs in primaries, and elect the state leaders at the state convention.
That is how the Texas GOP does it, and it works well.