At the Broward Palm Beach New Times blog, Gail Shepherd reports on a local event planned for today on “electoral disenfranchisement,” that will bring together Green Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party and independent activists:
[Green Party activist] Jayne King has banded together with some strange bedfellows: She says that the Electoral Reform event she’s helping to organize for this Saturday has support from a whole spectrum of political activists.
Sure, members of the Green Party and the ACLU will show up — you expected that, right? But so, King says, will Tea Party activists, Libertarians, Independents, and even a few Republicans. The common thread is that all agree that major reforms are due in our highly compromised elections system.
People are disenfranchised. Third- and fourth-party candidates are discouraged from running. The public is apathetic about voting. Lobbyists exert undue influence. And our state Legislature is stocked with millionaires who don’t represent the will of the common people . . .
The event is the “kickoff,” King says, for a series designed to get the public reinterested in its old civics lessons . . . In the future, the group will focus on at least ten areas of electoral reform.
Consider it a sign of the times. Via Poli-Tea.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Yet ....... Another Open Door For // Mar 20, 2010 at 3:47 pm
the obvious ……….
2 Third Party Revolution // Mar 20, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I bet those people from the Republican Party were trying to get them to join the GOP.
3 Steve // Mar 20, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Or they could be Ron Paul Republicans with legit concerns about ballot fairness. The Republican Liberty Caucus is pretty active down there. Anyways, great to see transpartisan action for a good cause.
4 Ross Levin // Mar 20, 2010 at 9:12 pm
This is great.
5 Green Party fan // Mar 21, 2010 at 7:59 am
Ross is right.
This Green Party involvement is great!
Thank you.
6 David Scott // Mar 21, 2010 at 11:43 am
There is not enough difference between the Democrats and Republicans. Because, I live in very blue voting district, for the first time in my life I had the luxury of “voting my conscience,” instead of voting for “the lesser of two evils.” I voted for the Green Party candidate, not because I thought she would make a great president, but because I really agree with the Green Party agenda, and I wanted to send a message to the Democrats. I agree that Obama was a better choice than McCain, but only by a small margin. Both Democrats and Republicans have been ripping off the taxpayers, since way before I was born. The thing that worried me about Obama right from the beginning was his warlike and hawkish attitudes. We need to stop giving money to the military, and Obama never talked about that. I invite you to my website devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on freedom: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/
7 The HEALTH CARE bill has passed the house // Mar 21, 2010 at 10:47 pm
America had died tonight.
In case anyone has notice. Welcome to Amerika.
We need the deliverer to take us out of bondage of Capital Hill. Let my people Go.
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