Rich Galen
Super Tuesday. Ten states this year (21 on the GOP side four years ago). In most cases only registered Republicans can actually vote, but Democrats and Independents, citizens and non-citizens, likely voters and people who have never darkened the door of a precinct polling place all get to participate.
How?
Public tax money is used to fund this most partisan of activities so everyone who pays taxes gets to help Republicans choose their nominee.
I have a friend, Maxene Fernstrom, who used to say that in Washington no one is more than three phone calls away from anyone else.
To test that theory I called my friend Alex Vogel and asked him if he would ask his wife, State Senator Jill Vogel (R-27th) if she could find out how much the primary election was going to cost the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
He did, and she did.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2012/03/02/the_high_cost_of_partisan_politics
Super Tuesday. Ten states this year (21 on the GOP side four years ago). In most cases only registered Republicans can actually vote, but Democrats and Independents, citizens and non-citizens, likely voters and people who have never darkened the door of a precinct polling place all get to participate.
How?
Public tax money is used to fund this most partisan of activities so everyone who pays taxes gets to help Republicans choose their nominee.
I have a friend, Maxene Fernstrom, who used to say that in Washington no one is more than three phone calls away from anyone else.
To test that theory I called my friend Alex Vogel and asked him if he would ask his wife, State Senator Jill Vogel (R-27th) if she could find out how much the primary election was going to cost the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
He did, and she did.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2012/03/02/the_high_cost_of_partisan_politics
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