Early Presidential Primary By Matt Rexroad on Saturday, March 17, 2007 @ 10:30 PM :: 1 Comments :: Blog   The Legislature passed and the Governor recently signed SB 113 (Calderon) to move the Presidential primary in California to February 5th. You can read the analysis of the bill here. Unfortunately, the Governor, Senator Machado, and Assemblywoman Wolk supported this measure.  This bill is bad for local government and bad public policy.  The cost of this idea is about $90 million. The people that voted against this bill in the Assembly did it for the right reasons. They did not oppose moving the primary.  They wanted local governments to be compensated for holding a third statewide election in 2008. Here is the other issue. This election is not really about moving the primary. It is about the opportunity to put a measure on the ballot that would change term limits and allow legislative leaders to extend their time in Sacramento. If this was really just about moving the primary for President to allow California to play a more active roll -- great. Then move the legislative primary too and save the $90 million. I am annoyed at the waste of money but I am more annoyed that the people that support this won't be straight up about it.

Comments By Charlie in Japan @ Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:08 AM Matt...."Ditto"... I could not agree more!!! You are exactly correct! Charlie-san You must be logged in to post a comment. You can login here