Salt Lake Tribune: Boneheaded Bill to Nullify Election Initiative Gets Off to Fast Start

Nice try, Senator Blamble.  But please be advised that compromise with the Eagle Forum and their evil ilk, ainna gonna work with the Utah Lumpencitizens this go-round.

Just so's you folks won't think your WCF blogmeister is "dogging it" as we move into the post-Valentine's day weekend, we'll devote some electronic ink to the the latest development in the Count My Vote Citizans' Initative story.  Seems that the clique of Utah Republican wackos who love their commanding control of the Utah caucus/convention political nomination "system" are "freaking out," as the Count My Vote Petition continues to gain an insurmountable mainstream momentum. Yep.  Its our old WCF pal Curt Bramble pushing his way in here,  with his ill-advised SB54, a crackpot "hybrid" bill which would, weirdly enough, "preserve"  the evil Utah causus/convention nomination system, whilst simultaneously, or perhaps alternatively, adopting the Count my Vote petion language "whole-hog." Read up folks: 

• Bill to nullify election initiative gets off to fast start 

Here's the "gist" of Bramble's schizoid bill, people:

Requirements: Bramble’s bill would force political parties to comply with four conditions (in order to make party caucuses "count"):

• The parties would have to provide a way for people who couldn’t attend their neighborhood caucuses to vote by absentee ballot.

• The parties would need to have a system in which delegates to political conventions, who are chosen at the caucuses, can cast absentee ballots or have backup delegates in case they can’t attend the convention.

• The top two vote-getters at conventions would have to square off in a primary if they don’t get 65 percent of the vote, up from the current level of 60 percent.

• Party primaries would have to be open to unaffiliated voters.

Failing that, Utah's political nomination "system" would fall back to a direct primary procedure, according to the exct language of the County My Vote initiative, which language is directly incorporated into Bramble's proposed "remedial" legislation.

Let's face it foks.  Bramble and the others are running scared..  Why accept this weak Bramble "compromise" legislation when we Utah Voters can have the whole enchilada, and toss out the bums from the Eagle Forum and Sutherland Insitute?

It's time to drive a stake through the heart of the Utah Caucus/Convention nomination "system" once and for all.

Please visit your local Count My Vote Petition signature location, if you haven't already done so already:

• WCF Saturday Special: Ogden Area Count My Vote Petition Site Map and Addresses

Nice try, Senator Blamble.  But please be advised that compromise with the evil Eagle Forum and their ilk, ainna gonna work with the Utah Lumpencitizens this go-round.

Just keep a-signin' those petitions, Utah folks!