In last November’s election California voters approved a ballot measure, Proposition 14, under which only the two candidates receiving the most votes ̶ regardless of party ̶ would advance to the general election. Proponents claimed the new system would force candidates to moderate their views, though there is no evidence of that in states where it’s been implemented. The likely result, as I pointed out in an earlier column, is the institution of one party rule in most of the state, and the elimination of third party candidates. The new primary system effectively creates Republican ghettoes, California’s minority party –its political Jews–allowed to keep to themselves, under the supervision of the Gauleiters of the state.
Today’s election for the Fourth Assembly District in Alpine county marks the first application of this absurd system. The least populated of California’s counties, the Sierra Nevada district is heavily Republican. A field of eight candidates is vying for the seat vacated by Republican Ted Gaines, who was elected to the Senate, and only one Democrat is listed. Oddly enough, his name is at the top of the non-alphabetical list of certified candidates in Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s declaration.
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