BY KEVIN LUNDBERG

11/13/2021

The Claremont Institute has established a fund to pay the expenses for a federal lawsuit against the open primary system in Colorado. This is going through their Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, under the leadership of Dr. John Eastman.

To contribute go to https://ccjlitigation.com and designate your donation to the Colorado Open Primary Constitutional Challenge Litigation Fund.  If all Colorado citizens  who think non-party voters should not be choosing party candidates gave something, we should be able to fund this critical need for honest and reliable primaries in Colorado.

The Claremont Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that relies on the support of individual donors to continue its work. Gifts to the Claremont Institute are tax-deductible. 

In 2000 the Supreme Court struck down California’s blanket primary by a 7-2 vote in a majority opinion authored by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as an infringement on the First Amendment’s freedom not to associate.

Colorado’s Open Primary law is very similar and should also be declared an unconstitutional intrusion on a political party’s freedom not to associate. The First Amendment’s protection of the freedom to associate includes the freedom not to associate.

California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U.S. 567, 574 (2000)

Again, to contribute go to https://ccjlitigation.com and designate your donation to the Colorado Open Primary Constitutional Challenge Litigation Fund. 

11/6/2021

Should Republicans Chose Republican Candidates?

In 2016 a ballot question (Proposition 108) opened up the primary elections to unaffiliated voters, giving them the choice of voting with a Republican or Democrat ballot. Today, with more unaffiliated voters than Republicans or Democrats, more primary ballots are sent to unaffiliated voters than to voters to either party. This is not a valid way for a party to select their nominee for the general elections. 

Not going into all of the specific details of this system at this time, suffice it to say that this open primary system was unconstitutionally forced on to both major parties and last September the Republican State Central Committee unanimously voted to challenge this in Federal court. The Claremont Institute has established a fund to defray some of the expenses for this most valid legal action, as their Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, under the leadership of Dr. John Eastman, is taking on this project.

This is a significant opportunity to set one aspect of Colorado’s election laws in proper order. If we are successful it will help set the voting systems in Colorado back onto the right track. I hope everyone will chip in to help. I will be sending them funds this week.

To contribute go to https://ccjlitigation.com and designate your donation to the Colorado Open Primary Constitutional Challenge Litigation Fund. The Claremont Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that relies on the support of individual donors to continue its work. Gifts to the Claremont Institute are tax-deductible.