To kickstart the Monday morning discussion, we'll offer a quick reminder of this week's neighborhood political party caucuses, which as far as we're concerned will be among the most important political events of the 2012 Election Season. In brief, Utah Democratic and Republican Party caucuses are scheduled for these dates:
March 13, 2012 - Weber County Democrats - 7:00 p.m.The Standard-Examiner provides additional info here:
March 15, 2012 - Weber County Republicans - 7:00 p.m.
Notably, "... Republicans require its caucus attendees to be registered Republicans to participate in their meetings, area Democrats have opened their caucus meetings to anyone," this morning's S-E story reports.
Here's more from the Salt Lake Tribune, in an article co-authored by Demo and GOP State party Chairs Jim Dabakis and Thomas Wright, respectively:
For information on precinct caucus locations and other particulars, Weber County lumpencitizens should check out these party websites:
Democrats:
Republicans:
Libertarians and Others:
Still unsure of your voting precinct, even after visiting these sites? find your precinct via Weber County's snazzy Graphic Information System (GIS) -based precinct locator:
If all else fails, call the Weber County Clerk/Auditor's Office at 399-8400. Tell 'em Rudi sent ya's.
In our opening paragraph, we opined that these party caucuses "will be among the most important political events of the 2012 Election Season;" and we're not just "whistling Dixie" about that. Here's our reasoning folks:
These party precinct caucuses are the venues in which delegates are elected to the respective Democratic and Republican state party nominating conventions, where the candidates who will appear on 2012 General Election (and June Primary) ballots will ultimately be selected by these same delegates. Typically (especially in the GOP process), the March caucuses are often dominated by well-organized fringe groups like the "Eagle Forum" and other politically
If you've grown weary of sitting on your thumbs griping during the two years between General Elections about the poor quality of candidates who are nominated and ultimately elected in Utah, you'll take us up our our strong admonition, turn off the boob-tube on Tuesday and Thursday nights, attend your party caucuses, and take back your Utah political nomination process from the claque of highly organized political zealots who've been gaming the caucus system for as long as most of us can remember.
That's our take and we're stickin' with it.
And what say our gentle readers about all this?
2 comments:
Rudi. It goes without saying that the strangely culturally regressive Tax exempt Mormon Corporate Party might support tax exemptions for their Mormo masters. no surprizes her at all
Although I'm not sure what you're getting at, OMP, let me just say that as a fiscal conservative, I'm totally opposed to the giving of "tax exempt status to 'religions.'"
Although it's Okay I think, for moronic religionists to cling to to their "Tin Age" superstititioous beliefs , I'm gobsmacked that any modrern legislature in the 21st Century would cut any of these 19th Century throwbacks even a little bit of political slack.
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