One Party Rule Sucks, For The Other Party
Posted by Andy on March 20th, 2008
I stumbled onto this one this morning. It is about how the DFL is trying to destroy our democratic system for politics in Minnesota.
ST. PAUL – On Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m., the first hearing regarding changing Minnesota’s caucus process will be held.
Super Tuesday’s heavily-attended precinct caucuses will be discussed at the evening Senate hearing.
The Committee on State and Local Government Operations and Oversight will take testimony from caucus-goers about the conditions of the caucus locations and hear from people who would prefer a presidential primary.
State Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, is planning to push legislation to establish a presidential primary in Minnesota.
Now as much as I don’t like our Caucus system, it is not pleasing to see one party abuse their power to undermine the other. Democrats have iron fist control over the Minnesota Legislature and can pretty much do whatever they want. They believe in a different form of democracy and grassroots activism is different in their eyes than it is in the eyes of Republicans.
It is incredibly troubling that the state government already has so much power over private groups who enter the political fight. There are very few if any private groups that have their operations dictated as do political parties. And now the Democrats are trying to destroy grassroots will and make it harder to get involved and affect change in the world that is Minnesota politics.
But why would Democrats want to make it harder for people, Republicans especially, to affect local and state races? Oh yeah, because they have super majorities in pretty much every one of them and it benefits them to have a fractured and weak Republican base.
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March 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
Killing competition instead of having a fair fight is the DFL way. How is that news to anyone?