The bill now means CA's presidential primary will be on March 3, 2020… could be right behind the first states.
— John Myers (@johnmyers) September 27, 2017
We’re at least 25 years past the point where Iowa’s welfare farmers and New Hampshire’s social parasites had anything useful to say about choosing America’s next president:
… Gov. Jerry Brown gave his stamp of approval Wednesday to a measure jumping California’s primary up to the beginning of March, three months earlier than its contest in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had already captured the major parties’ nominations.
“The Golden State will no longer be relegated to last place in the presidential nominating process,” Democratic Secretary of State Alex Padilla said. “Candidates will not be able to ignore the largest, most diverse state in the nation as they seek our country’s highest office”…
California, home to 11 media markets, is an expensive state to campaign in, potentially giving well-funded candidates an edge.
Democratic leaders said the bill gives California the spotlight it deserves given its record of pushing the national conversation around immigration and other issues.
“With all due respect to our brothers and sisters in Iowa and New Hampshire, California is the beating heart of the national resistance to Trump,” Eric Bauman, chairman of the California Democratic Party, said in a statement. “When it comes to deciding the Democratic nominee, our voices need to be heard early in the process.”
Iowa and New Hampshire will still have their early say.
The measure puts the state’s primary on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March, often known as “Super Tuesday,” when as many as a dozen states hold nominating contests. It will still fall after the earliest caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina…
And if I had any doubts, the snotty-faced wails of America’s Worst ‘Progressives’ would salve them:
The importance of IA & NH is that they force candidates to actually meet voters & be vetted. Change the schedule & voters will lose.
— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) September 28, 2017
Hey Twitter, give @jjz1600 one of test accounts allowing more than 140 characters so he can say what he really means: "White voter states." https://t.co/X4jf5WPznX
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) September 28, 2017
This is dangerous for democracy. Stacking primaries & moving up state w/expensive media market aids the richest only https://t.co/pAEgl8ovri
— Nomiki Konst ??? (@NomikiKonst) September 28, 2017
Bernie outspent Hillary. https://t.co/shOSJ71aDz
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 28, 2017