Comments on: Bloomberg Goes Independent

By: Connor Vlakancic

Connor Vlakancic — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:49:48 +0000

California NonPartisan Initiative Introduction
California’s General Election, November 2008,

NonPartisan Independent candidates
HUNDREDS OF THEM!!
CA Assembly, CA Senate, US Representative and even President candidate(s)

On May 14, 2007 California Attorney General website listed the Initiative Measure to achieve this goal.
http://ag.ca.gov/initiatives/activeindex.php?active=A Select: # 07-0019

SECTION 1. Title This Initiative Measure shall be known and may be cited as the:
“California NonPartisan Candidate Qualification Act”
SECTION 2. Findings
The people of the state of California do hereby declare their no confidence frustration with (1) partisan political malfeasance and (2) duopoly polarized partisan political party failure to produce desirable visionary candidates of viable eclectic-pragmatic leadership competence.
SECTION 3. Purpose
This California statute disenfranchises or eliminates existing multiple incongruent Election Code procedures of Signatures-in-Lieu, Nomination Signatures and Write-in Candidate Qualification Signatures for nonpartisan General Election candidates, and, creates a new aligned signature gathering process for state wide and district nonpartisan candidates, including a default write-in candidate qualification means.

The whitepaper introduction is at: http://www.NonPartisanPatriot.com

We invite your interest in this Initiative Measure. Attorney General Jerry Brown will release the official Title and Summary in 25 to 30 days. The official press release will include who is our “Charlton Heston” media spokesperson.

Our email address is: Independent@NonPartisanPatriot.com

Your interest is sincerely requested as your participation is critical!

Sincerely,

Connor Vlakancic, Advocate, CAO
California NonPartisan Independent Committee 501(c)4
Contact at: 1202.558.7077

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:52:41 +0000

He will definitely fill the Nader role, Fallenmonk, and there is little likelihood of anyone to inspire the Dobson-Robertson crowd.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:41:48 +0000

Like you, Alice, I see it as a drag on the Repubs, more than Democrats. He’ll do what he wants, but any outside money he collects will be from Repub donors.

Whig, Hillary would take the state, because Mike and Rudy have no base outside the City. There is a big divide between the City and the rest of the state that Hillary has managed to finesse with a lot of work.

A New York contest would be an almost automatic Dem victory, as it would leave the Repub base no one to vote for.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:32:33 +0000

It would be good to see Bloomberg do the “Nader” on the GOP.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:57:10 +0000

If Bloomberg runs, three candidates for president are nominally from New York.

Clinton, Bloomberg, Giuliani.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:43:06 +0000

The rumor has been floating out there for a while that he’s entertaining the idea of running for President as an independent. I’m not too sure how many New Yorkers would vote for him, given how he handled the transit strike; but such a move might give Republicans a viable alternative, considering that voting Dem is probably unthinkable to most of them and they don’t seem too thrilled with their current (R) crop (enthralled base notwithstanding).

Anway, the rumor is probably just a trial balloon, but if it happens, my thinking is that it would siphon votes from the Republican candidate so naturally I’m all for it.