Read an Issue, Ask a Mexican

1. Danehy says, “I wouldn’t mind paying a dollar to vote in my party’s primary.” Looks like a poll tax to me. I wonder if he’d mind checking the Constitution’s 24th Amendment: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.”

2. The Tucson Weekly Blog is pored over by The New York Times!

   On February 7, 2008 @ 1:48 pm, in an important discussion of why Red Star may not be your President, Red Star pointed out a certain problem with the McCain candidacy at:

   http://blog.tucsonweekly.com/?p=1186#comments

   Today the NYT screams: “McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out” at:

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html?ref=politics

   Thanks to Red Star it’s Tucson Weekly 1, NYT 0.

   Will the Bush Supreme Court amend the Constitution and unwittingly help pave the way for a Red Star presidency?

3. James: I would pay a dollar for Independents to be able to vote in the AZ primary much to Danehy’s hand-wringing. (This reminds me, I need to change my party preference back to ‘I’ now that the AZ primary is over — there are ways to get around that old issue).
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   Also: Red Star is Ted Rall ?

4. As well, re: Independents/Danehy – this was the first year in a long while the “pick a party” stuff happened. We used to have open primaries until Prop 103 passed, and it sounds like the proposition caused a glitch with regard to the race for the Presidency, which 103 reportedly did not cover. Bud Foster has more info.

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