This is a bad idea for several reasons. The main reason is you don’t want a partisan primary race with a non-partisan race it’s confusing to voters.
Secondly the reason they’re pushing this is because Republicans in the state want to control all the nonpartisan offices like school boards, county commissions, city commissions, etc. So what they’re trying to do is get people to vote in the primaries for non-partisan races because most of those people will be Republicans.
Why?
Because independents cannot vote in their primary and neither can Democrats. Independents can only vote in Democratic primaries so another words Independents and Democrats likely wouldn’t show up to these elections which would guarantee conservative leaning candidates in the non-partisan races. It’s an old hat trick the Repugs have been playing for years.
More candidates and initiatives aren’t going to drive voter participation, government engagement will. If we had open and transparent government in Sioux Falls we would have more voter participation. I am predicting around 5,000 voters will show up on Tuesday, I have some local politicos telling me it is closer to 3,000 voters.
I think the voters are sending a message by NOT voting. We don’t care, because you don’t care.
Poops PAC sent out this postcard today (Jordan’s flyer is also attached in the photo, because I like it 🙂 even though we can’t have public restrooms DTSF because certain people use them to fornicate and intoxicate). Paul seems to miss the point, the public isn’t engaged because you don’t engage them. It really is that simple.
And if you were going to spend all this money to send out a postcard and highlight Thomason’s platform as for the reason to vote, why not just send out an endorsement postcard? I even wonder if Thomason knew about it?
What struck me was how it looked like a Mike Huether campaign postcard. Are these two hanging out? God help us!