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2012 / Housekeeping The Washington State Democratic Caucus Is on April 15th
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM
In the print version of this week's feature about the Republican caucuses, I stated that the Washington state Democratic caucuses happen on the same day as the Republican caucuses. This is not true. While the caucuses have traditionally happened on the same day, the Democrats will caucus on Sunday, April 15th this year. It is still true that if you caucus with the Republicans this year, you can't caucus with the Democrats. I regret the error.
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Caucuses are evil. An evil that's easy to avoid this year, since there's no question who the Dem nom is going to be.
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Since the Republican caucuses are probably going to be a very sparsely attended affair, progressives should attend them and become delegates for Santorum. Then they should go to the state party convention and try to pass a resolution in favor of marriage equality.
Of course it won't happen, but even an effort would drive the religious freaks crazy.
Of course it won't happen, but even an effort would drive the religious freaks crazy.
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Paul:
Who sez?
Whatever promise you're making when you sign in for a caucus is made to a political party, not a government agency or official. There's no law that says you have to stay away from one private entity if you've had recent dealings with another private entity. The Republican Party has no way under the sun to enforce its "prohibition" against participating in the Democratic caucus, and vice versa.
As I recollect, Democratic caucus participants sign a form that they consider themselves Democrats "at this time". A person could certainly claim to be a Republican in early March, and then claim Democratic allegiance in mid-April.
It may be a fib to participate in both caucuses, but it is in no way, shape, or form illegal to do so.
It is still true that if you caucus with the Republicans this year, you can't caucus with the Democrats.
Who sez?
Whatever promise you're making when you sign in for a caucus is made to a political party, not a government agency or official. There's no law that says you have to stay away from one private entity if you've had recent dealings with another private entity. The Republican Party has no way under the sun to enforce its "prohibition" against participating in the Democratic caucus, and vice versa.
As I recollect, Democratic caucus participants sign a form that they consider themselves Democrats "at this time". A person could certainly claim to be a Republican in early March, and then claim Democratic allegiance in mid-April.
It may be a fib to participate in both caucuses, but it is in no way, shape, or form illegal to do so.
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Dems had better damn well go to the Reublican caucuses and vote for Santorum as that's the best way to help Obama. Take some anti-nausea drug before you go.
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@5 Since the Democratic caucuses are probably going to be a very sparsely attended affair, progressives should attend them and become delegates for Obama. Then they should go to the state party convention and try to pass a resolution in favor of ending the drone war on women and children from "3rd world" countries being considered acceptable collateral damage in the war on terrorism and ending his war on whistle-blowers and ending his war on drugs. FIXED
@6 it only really matters if they talk with each other about it or you become predominant delegates for either. I would suggest to anyone looking to troll to only troll one caucus but it's not like you'll go to jail if you do, your vote will just be invalidated.
@6 it only really matters if they talk with each other about it or you become predominant delegates for either. I would suggest to anyone looking to troll to only troll one caucus but it's not like you'll go to jail if you do, your vote will just be invalidated.
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Your original article says, "You can find your caucusing location here: https://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/vo…. "
As best I can tell, that just isn't true.
You can locate your Republican caucus at: http://wsrpcaucus.tumblr.com/caucuslocat…
The Democrats have caucus information (but no locations yet) at: http://www.wa-democrats.org/caucuses
As best I can tell, that just isn't true.
You can locate your Republican caucus at: http://wsrpcaucus.tumblr.com/caucuslocat…
The Democrats have caucus information (but no locations yet) at: http://www.wa-democrats.org/caucuses
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Your original article says, "You can find your caucusing location here: https://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/vo…. "
As best I can tell, that just isn't true.
You can locate your Republican caucus at: http://wsrpcaucus.tumblr.com/caucuslocat…
The Democrats have caucus information (but no locations yet) at: http://www.wa-democrats.org/caucuses
As best I can tell, that just isn't true.
You can locate your Republican caucus at: http://wsrpcaucus.tumblr.com/caucuslocat…
The Democrats have caucus information (but no locations yet) at: http://www.wa-democrats.org/caucuses
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