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Old 05-27-2004, 12:34 AM
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People seem to forget that the political parties are private organizations, so it begs the question as to just why the hell we cough up public funds for them to get together and preen and pontificate.

Why do we fund primary elections either? Here in Washington State, the majors (including the Libertarians!?!) just successfully sued to get our open primaries thrown out, so now they've effectively reduced the choices available to the public, yet they expect us to pay for their winnowing process--SOB's!!!

The primaries should either be fully funded by the parties, or they should hold party caucuses and choose their own damn candidates, then let em loose in the general election.

Oh, and what about the presidential 'debates' huh? Those are publicly funded as well, but it's only open to the two majors.

We're a democratic republic my foot...
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