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Article #1566Re: Nut in the Statehouse
From: Don Homuth
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:49
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:49
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On 27 Jul 2006 11:01:54 -0700, "Paul J. Berg" <pjberg@webtv.net> wrote: > > >Don Homuth wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:41:22 -0700, pjberg@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg) >> wrote: >> >> > >> >Oregon State Representative Jeff Kropf (R-Sublimity), wants to take his >> >free-market principles right into the Oregon Legislature. Kropf >> >suggested lawmakers be paid "based on free-market, results-oriented >> >principles." ... >> >> And having mde that statement, has abanoned his campaign and removed >> himself from further consideration as a candidate. >> >> http://statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060727/STATE/607270347 > > >It wasn't his nutty statement that made Oregon State Representative >Jeff Kropf withdraw from the race.... Nobody said it was. >Now, the Republican Party insiders are going to choose the party's >candidate for the general election, NOT the voters. Since it's too late to have another primary, that's the usual way it's done. >If you had a non-partisan system of electing office holders, and a >candidate withdrew between the primary and general election, they would >be replaced on the general election ballot by the third highest vote >getting candidate from the primary election. In a No Party system, one could do it any way one chooses. One could, for example, hold a districtwide convention, and pick a candidate that way by whomever showed up. But since this actually Is a partisan position at the moment, that's the way we choose to do things.
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