[lbo-talk] FW: Help Defeat Question 3

[nathanne at nathannewman.org]

> nathanne at nathannewman.org wrote:
>
>>The ideal of conservatives is to have nonpartisan races in highly
>>Democratic areas, and partisan races in GOP areas.  This would lead to
>>conservative Democrats and rightwing Republicans being the main
>>politicians.
>
> A problem with your model, Nathan, is that Bloomberg was a Democrat
> who ran as a Repub because he couldn't get on the Dem ballot. He's no
> conservative, either. He's just a plutocrat.
> Doug

But he only won because of a meltdown in the Democrats in the Ferrer-Green
contest combined with the craziness post-911.  He would have had a far
easier time if he hadn't had to declare himself a Republican, but could
have run in a nonpartisan election.

There is little question that nonpartisan elections in New York will shift
politics to the right, especially at this point where progressives
actually are active within the primaries.

-- Nathan