By Peg Cage, www.MyColoradoGOP.org
November 3, 2024
Dick Wadhams is a former CO GOP Chairman, a paid consultant for Proposition 131, and the author of the article Prop: 131 will protect GOP voters from disenfranchisement. He says the current GOP leadership is “divisive” for advocating closed primary elections. Wadhams claims that only the passage of 131 will save the party.
That directly contradicts what Kent Thiry said, while pouring millions of dollars into perverting the “Citizens’ Initiatives” ballot access process for 131. Thiry’s stated goal is to “kill the political parties.” Thiry is a co-chair of Unite America. Their website shows a nationwide, multi-million-dollar effort to invest “in solutions … such as open primaries, majority winners, and ending gerrymandering.” Thiry is the Colorado face for the national effort to remove citizens’ control from elections and ultimately government.
Why did both the Title Board and Colorado Supreme Court claim Proposition 131 meets Colorado’s “single subject” mandate? If passed, it will institute an All-Candidate Primary (or “Jungle Primary”) AND Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) general elections for some races.
The Jungle Primary kills the very purpose of political organizations, which is to select candidates who best represent their party platform for the general election ballot for all voters.
Ranked-Choice Voting is a line-item on the Communist Party USA platform.
So, there it is. It seems Wadhams isn’t worried at all about disenfranchising Republicans, or any other American voters. He, and most of the GOP Chairmen since him, have tried to undermine the party system because IT WORKS.
We the People must soundly reject 131 now by voting NO, then begin on November 6th to restore integrity and good leadership to our political parties. Hearty caucuses, assemblies, and non-infiltrated primaries will produce locally known and trusted candidates. Honest general elections between candidates with established platforms will produce a representative American Government.