On Saturday, the Standard-Examiner published a fine editorial, urging the citizens of northern Utah to increase their involvement in the local political process, by attending their party's neighborhood caucus meetings on March 25 of this year. As the Std-Ex suggests, attendance at local precinct caucuses is one way to maximize your influence at the grass-roots level:
Since so few voters participate in respective party caucuses — as little as 2 percent, by one estimate — they have an out-size influence on the eventual general election — their votes actually matter more than those casting ballots in the primary and/or general elections. That’s why attendance at party caucuses is so critical to the eventual political makeup of county and state leadership.The Std-Ex is right. If you're interested in getting the maximum "bang for your buck" in Utah politics, your neighborhood caucus is the place to be on March 25.
Regardless of your political affiliation, you should become involved. The more people who are involved, the better, more responsive our government will be.
In that connection, we'll up the ante, and provide a heads up on an event which is happening on the Weber State University campus tomorrow night, March 11, 2008:
"Power Politics 101 - Grassroots Politics: The Powerful Responsibilities of Delegates”
The folks at the WSU Political Science Department have assembled a fine panel to discuss topics which are fundamental to effective grass-roots politics; and we urge all Weber County Forum political wonks (that's everybody here, right?) to put this event on their calenders.
2 comments:
Looking at the Weber County website they haven't updated for caucus dates since 2004. Maybe if they were more pro-active there would be more involvement. Also Weber County Democrates web needs to be updated, says there are no candidates for the upcoming election, national or local.
I just checked the WC Dem site, and the proper caucus dates and convention dates seem to be posted properly.
There are no candidates posted yet because none have, so far, been nominated. When the filing period closes, I presume those running for nomination as Democratic candidates will be posted, and once the nominations have been made, candidates will be posted with links to their campaign pages. But since the filing period is still open and no one's been nominated yet, it's a bit premature to have candidates listed by the party on its webpage.
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