Propositions Won’t Aid Primary Election System
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Re “Broken Politics, Drastic Fix,” editorial, Oct. 13: I respectfully disagree with your stands on Propositions 60 and 62. One proposition would create an open primary and the other would embed into our state Constitution our current system.
As a partisan Democrat I do not want Republicans influencing my party’s choice of candidates -- and I know that partisan Republicans feel the same about their primaries.
But I agree with those who say our current system tends to entrench extreme incumbents in office with little hope of voting them out. The proposal to have a nonpartisan commission draw district lines is really the way to go -- and I am willing to wait until 2011 rather than put a Band-Aid on the current system by voting in Proposition 62 -- and setting the current system into the Constitution if Proposition 60 passes. I recommend voting no on both propositions.
Marty Cantor
North Hollywood
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