The Salt Lake Tribune reports on a recently launched campaign by a group called The People’s Right, that aims to run petition drives in order to help independent candidates for office achieve ballot access across the state:
One grassroots group took advantage of Presidents Day as the opportune time to launch its own brand of revolution.
“In honor of the first president, George Washington, it is the right and duty of the people to declare independence from partisan politics,” said Dale Ure of The Peoples Right.
Citing a section of state law that allows an organization of voters to qualify independent candidates outside the established party system, The Peoples Right announced the Utah Independent Project, with its chief aim to run a no-strings-attached candidate for governor and other high-profile offices.
“We are not looking for the traditional politician,” said Alton resident Sharla Christie, a regional coordinator for The Peoples Right. With that in mind, the group said that self-nominations will be rejected at its regional and statewide meetings to be held Feb. 27 at the Territorial State House in Fillmore.
“We will have 70 to 100 meetings in the next two weeks,” Christie said. “We don’t run this — the people do. We just give them the tools.”
The group’s new Web site, www.utahlive.us is key to building momentum to meet the March 19 filing deadline for state and federal races, Christie said.
In comments to a post at Poli-Tea, Randy Miller of the Utah League of Independent Voters suggests the group has ties to the state’s Constitution Party. Sharla Christie, for instance, was a candidate for state legislature on the Constitution Party ballot line in 2006.
long standing pol editorial writer and friend of Citizens For A Better Veterans Home, Dan Walters, (typed in above but did not ‘stick’) ……….
“All national and state incumbents are in trouble with registered voters in California, but incumbents in California are especially held in low regard,” another polling outfit, El Cajon-based Datamar, says in its analysis of recent data. “More than half of all respondents want incumbents in California voted out of office in the next election, with Republicans and independents leading the charge.”
Boxer will have strong support from Democratic voters, although perhaps not as strong as more centrist Democrats, such as fellow Sen. Dianne Feinstein, enjoy. Republicans will be equally strong in their opposition, regardless of whom they nominate. The question, as the Datamar poll indicates, is whether ever-increasing numbers of independent voters will help Boxer win a fourth term.
Independents decide every close statewide election in California, and they are a notoriously fickle lot. Boxer has won them in the past on hot-button issues such as abortion, but Fiorina and Campbell are moderates who could attract independents if they are, indeed, in a mood to throw out incumbents.
That’s why national political oddsmakers now put Boxer on the list of senators who could bite the dust this year.
“I’m hearing more and more idiots in the Country wanting to start new parties instead of helping build up the ones that already exist.”
I think that there are a lot of people out there who have got no clue how difficult it is to start a new political party. They also have no idea how difficult it is to get on the ballot as an independent in most states, especially if one runs for President as an independent.
If these people are Constitutionalists, then why the hell don’t they just go with the CP instead?!
I’m hearing more and more idiots in the Country wanting to start new parties instead of helping build up the ones that already exist.
Has TV really dumbed us down?