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Could California and Washington Return to the Blanket Primary?

Published on December 8, 2012, by in General.

Both California and Washington state are using the type of top-two system which gives voters only two choices in the election itself. Proponents of top-two primaries might be satisfied if California and Washington returned to using a blanket primary. California used a blanket primary in 1998 and 2000; Washington state used it 1934 through 2002. In a blanket primary, all candidates run on a single primary ballot and all voters use the same primary ballot. Then, the top vote-getter from the ranks of each party appear on the November ballot.

It is true the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated California’s blanket primary in 2000. However, in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to feel that the freedom of association problem with either a top-two primary or a blanket primary can be overcome if the state prints a candidate’s party “preference” on the ballot, and if the ballot carries language warning voters that parties don’t have nominees. There is no logical reason why those tweaks could not be made to the blanket primary. That would have the virtue of restoring a broad range of choices for votes in November. For instance, if California has used a blanket primary in 2012, the November ballot would have carried these names and labels on the ballot: “Dianne Feinstein, prefers Democratic Party; Elizabeth Emken, prefers Republicans Party; Gail Lightfoot, prefers Libertarian Party; Marsha Feinland, prefers Peace & Freedom Party; Don J. Grundmann, prefers American Independent Party.”

Alaska uses a blanket primary, although only the Democratic, Libertarian, and Alaskan Independence Parties participate in the blanket primary; the Republicans have their own separate primary ballot.

33 Responses

  1. Jed Siple

    My concern with this: What about independent candidates?

  2. California’s blanket primary treated independent candidates differently than Washington state’s blanket primary. California’s blanket primary let independent candidates petition onto the November ballot. Washington state’s blanket primary had them run in the primary, where they had to get 1% in order to be on the November ballot.

  3. Nick Kruse

    Why didn’t the Supreme Court say that Alaska’s blanket primary was unconstitutional? What is different about theirs?

  4. Richard Winger

    Blanket primaries are not unconstitutional if no political party objects to them. In Alaska, not only did the Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and Alaskan Independence Parties not object to a blanket primary, they actually won a lawsuit in the State Supreme Court demanding a blanket primary.

    The legislature had mandated open or semi-open primaries, but the four parties that liked the blanket primary sued the state and won, under the theory that political parties have a First Amendment right to choose their nomination procedure (as an aside, the Green Party is no longer a qualified party in Alaska).

  5. Walter Ziobro

    1. If a blanket primary is used, parties and independent candidates should have the choice to opt out.

    2. Parties should have veto power over candidates using their party label in any blanket primary.

    3. If a party opts out, it should nominate in any manner its rules allow (e.g. own self-financed primary, own convention, or own on-line voting method).

  6. Demo Rep

    What language in the U.S.A. Const says that X percent of the voters in a State have a RIGHT to have their robot party hack candidates on the Nov general election ballots ???

    Still waiting for an answer since 1968.
    SCOTUS is brain dead about basic election stuff.

    PUBLIC nominations by ALL or SOME of the PUBLIC voters according to PUBLIC L-A-W-S.

    The 2000 SCOTUS opinion is one more piece of legal JUNK.

  7. johnO

    robot party hacks….funny

  8. If I understand this correctly, parties would not have nominees, but the (maximum) number of candidates in November would equal the number of ballot-qualified parties. Even if top two doesn’t contribute to voter confusion, this scheme certainly would.

    I don’t think this would be acceptable to the proponents of top two. Non-partisan elections seem to be only one of their objectives. The other seems to be to present the voters with a head-to-head contest between exactly two candidates. Otherwise they would be fine with conventional two-round runoff (as long as it is non-partisan).

  9. Dan Meek

    In Washington, the number of candidates on the general election ballot was not equal to the number of ballot-qualified parties. To to get the general election, a minor party candidate had to poll at least 1% of the vote in the blanket primary, as I recall.

  10. Richard Winger

    #9 is correct. Also there were many instances when no one from one of the ballot-qualified parties entered the primary. The Reform Party was a ballot-qualified party in 1998 in Washington state, but only two members from that party filed for the primary for US House, and only 5 for the legislature.

  11. No Difference

    Political Parties should have the right to choose their own candidates to run. The state has no business in internal political party affairs. For it to meddle in these affairs is an affront to basic civil liberties, including the right to associate and the right to privacy.

    Top-two, “blanket,” and state-run party primaries and such should be abolished permanently. See the Copenhagen Document of the Helsinki Accords.

  12. Jim Riley

    If only one person can qualify per political gang, and each political gang is guaranteed to advance a candidate to the secondary election, it is indiscernible from a nomination, which Justice Scalia said was the critical problem with the blanket primary.

    It sounds like you would be happy with a system like Louisiana where the Open Primary can be decisive. Now that 15% of representatives are chosen using an Open Primary system, Congress should let States hold a possibly decisive open primary in October.

    Of course, there is no legal problem with state legislative and statewide offices being decided in June.

  13. Jim Riley

    #4 The Alaska Supreme Court found that the Alaska Constitution provided greater protection of political association rights than does the 1st Amendment. Without such a ruling, the political parties would have been stuck with hoping the legislature passed something that they liked.

    A State can voluntarily permit political parties to allow voters from selected other parties vote in their primary (eg Idaho), but they don’t have to do so (eg Oklahoma).

  14. 1. How would write-ins work in blanket primaries?
    2. Taxpayers who can not take part in a primary system should not have to pay for it. So parties should run their own selection processes. Then on the blanket primary, their endorsed candidate should have a indication next to their name of this fact.
    3. Why two from each party? How would you handle one party candidatw with most of the votes in that party?
    4. In any new system, the party qualification process wouls also have to change.

  15. Richard Winger

    #14, write-ins would be no different than any other votes. California used write-ins during the blanket primaries years. The party membership of write-in candidates is known to election officials. In 2012 the Peace & Freedom Party had 3 candidates who were write-ins in June 2012, and because they each came in 2nd (because only one person appeared on the ballot) they appeared on the November 2012 with the label “Peace & Freedom.”

    #12, people wouldn’t be qualifying “from a political gang”. Just because a person says he prefers a political party does not mean he or she is a member of that party. That is why Washington state’s top-two system wasn’t thrown out. Even supporters of top-two, like yourself, forget the true meaning of “prefers”. That is a potential legal flaw in the existing California top-two system, by the way. Unlike Washington state, California won’t let a candidate “prefer” a party if that candidate isn’t a member. That California characteristic has not been challenged in court.

  16. Jim Riley

    #15 Washington does not maintain membership records of its parties. But when the 9th circuit overturned its blanket primary, it ruled that voters considered themselves to be members of a party, even though there was no public disclosure or records of that membership. On that basis, it said that there was no material difference from the system in California where there was public disclosure and records.

    Washington continues not to maintain membership records of its parties. But that does not mean a potential candidate does not consider himself to be a member of a party, even though he does not disclose his preference until he files as a candidate.

    California requires its candidates to have disclosed their party preference as a voter prior to becoming a candidate with that preference.

  17. Larry Allred

    Credible obsevations like this are truly helpful for those that are or will communicate with legislators on how the top two scheme might be dumped.

    If a legislator proposed that a primary now be one where approval voting is used among all candidates and the number of candidates that appear on the general election ballot was the average votes cast by a voter times two or half the number of candidates receiving at least a 1,000 votes or more, whichever is less. Would the greatest unjust aspect of such a plan be nearly as great as the lack of justice in a top two arrangement?

  18. Jim Riley

    What is your rationale for advancing the 8th (Lightfoot), 13th (Feinland), and 16th (Grundmann) candidates, in addition to the Top 2 candidates to the general election?

  19. Richard Winger

    #18, the rationale is so that voters in the election itself could vote for someone who represents them on policy issues. Senator Feinstein is one of the most anti-legal marijuana members of Congress, and Elizabeth Emken has no interest in changing the legal status of marijuans. There are many other issues as well on which Feinstein and Emken do not share ideas with many voters. Voting is about letting voters express themselves.

  20. Jim Riley

    What is your rationale for advancing the 9th (Lightfoot), 14th (Feinland), and 18th (Grundmann) candidates, in addition to the Top 2 candidates to the general election?

  21. Jim Riley

    #19 What is your rationale for excluding Dan Hughes, who received 3.2 times as many votes as Lightfoot, 5.6 times as many as Feinland, and 9.8 times as many times as Grundmann.

    Sorry about the mixup on the ranking. Why doesn’t your Secretary of State order candidate results by votes cast?

  22. Slam In A Y-Trap

    Because they represent different parties, different ideologies.

    The way it should work is that every party should have one candidate on the actual ballot that can elect someone to office right then and there, with a very minimal petition or filing fee. If no one gets 50% plus one then runoff election. Or use approval voting.

    Independents who choose not to have any party label can complete the same petition or filing fee (their choice which one) as an entire party would.

    The parties should each nominate their candidates any way they want to, but they should not be allowed to charge the taxpayers for it. In other words if they can afford to have a primary and want to do it fine, but they have to pay for it themselves and run it themselves. If they want to allow people who are not dues paying and/or registered members of their party vote in their primary great. If not then fine too. If they want to have a convention, and let everyone vote or only let members vote or the chairman gets to make a unilateral decision…doesn’t matter. Their party, their rules.

    Anyone that doesn’t like any existing party labels or rules starts a new party or runs independent. The party labels always only go to the candidates that those parties want representing them, using whatever method they choose to insure that, so there is no mislabeling on the ballot and the party names actually mean something. It should be very easy to start and qualify a new party.

    The important thing here is to make sure all voters have the choice of every party (with meaningful control of who runs under their label) and ideology that makes a minimal effort to qualify IN THE ACTUAL ELECTION WHERE SOMEONE CAN WIN RIGHT THEN AND THERE. Otherwise the election is a sham and a fraud, with people who have less than the most popular ideologies locked out and ballot labels rendered meaningless.

    The runoff or approval vote is a good addition because it allows someone to vote in the first round and vote their conscience – not to worry that they have to vote for one of the top two choices or “spoil” the election or “waste” their vote. Then if there is a runoff they can still vote for the lesser of two evils as they see it, or if it is approval voting they can approve whichever candidates they don’t find unacceptable.

    What we have otherwise, like in California, is an absolute travesty and a disgrace. We can only hope that either the courts throw it out or the voters repeal it.

    And that goes for Washington State also.

    Why do we want to have meaningless choices in the actual elections between two candidates with the same ideology, or with ballot mislabels that do not reflect their actual ideology, or with a very narrow range of differences in their ideas? That is completely bogus.

    So the special interests that passed this scheme should be exposed, shamed, and boycotted. They should be embarrassed into publicly admitting that they hoodwinked the voters to line their own pockets and destroy any real opposition in the bud. Then they should apologize if they want to stay in business or have anyone read, watch or listen to them, or ever vote for them ever again if they are politicians, which no one should after what they did.

    Now that you know please make sure everyone else does too.

  23. #21, Mr. Hughes chose to register into the Republican Party, so he appeared on the ballot as “Prefers Republican Party.” The Republican platform takes stands on many issues, and Mr. Hughes knew that when he chose to join that party and chose to run for partisan office, he would be perceived as supporting the Republican Party platform. But the voters who wanted to vote for the Republican Party already had Elizabeth Emken to vote for.

  24. Slam In A Y-Trap

    that too.

  25. Demo Rep

    NO robot party hack primaries are needed — or wanted — since they produce mostly robot party hack extremists.

    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
    Equal nominating petitions for all candidates for the same office in the same area.

  26. Slam In A Y-Trap

    That’s up to the parties. They should decide for themselves how to choose their nominees so long as the nominees are willing and technically qualified.

    As for extremists who said that’s a bad thing? Why do we want bland meaningless choices to be the only ones people get to have? No thanks.

  27. Jim Riley

    #22 “Because they represent different parties, different ideologies.”

    Why should the state of California care if the candidates represent different parties and ideologies? Should the state of California make sure that there are also candidates of different religions, races, ethnicities, sex, income level, age, and marital status?

    Maybe California should require candidates to state their opinion on certain issues, such as term limits on the ballots. Or test the voters to make sure they are making their choice based on political issues articulated by the candidates.

    Or why not simply let any candidate gather a modest number of signatures (say 65) and let them appear on the ballot. If a group wants to support a candidate they are free to do so.

  28. Jim Riley

    #23 Lisa Murkowsi was a registered Republican, as was Joe Miller. They both knew that they would be perceived as supporting the Republican Party platform.

    Why should Murkowski have been permitted to run in the general election since the voters who wanted the Republican Party already had Joe Miller to vote for? Alternatively, why should Lisa Murkowski have had to run as a write-in candidate – how is that situation any different than in US Term Limits?

    If Alaska had a Top 2 Open Primary, Murkowski and Miller might well have both qualified for the general election.

  29. Slam In A Y-Trap

    Why should the state of California care if the candidates (that) represent different parties and ideologies (are allowed to be on the ballot that can actually elect someone)?

    Because they don’t want to be a fascist dictatorship of one or two very similar ideologies …or at least keep it from being obvious? You ask some really stupid questions.

    The state of california doesn’t care about anything. The people should care that their right to vote for more than tweedle dee and tweedle dum in actual meaningful elections is being stripped. And do something, like grab some pitchforks and torches and bring those responsible for this to justice.

  30. Slam In A Y-Trap

    Or why not simply let any candidate gather a modest number of signatures (say 65) and let them appear on the ballot.

    Just so long as it is an actual election – that is, one in which if someone gets 50% plus one OR the largest number of approval votes they are automatically elected with no further rounds of voting – that would be fine.

    Runoff ONLY if no one gets a majority.

    No problem.

    And the parties would have to control who gets to use their label. If you don’t agree with a party’s rules for getting to use their label get 65 signatures or pay 65 dollars and make up a new label. Or if you don’t like any label be listed as independent.

    That would be fine.

    But meaningless ballot labels are not.

    And relegating meaningful choices to only appear in meaningless events that can’t even properly be called elections (since they can’t elect anyone). Not fine at all.

    Those who pulled this bait and switch on the people need to be brought to justice.

  31. Jim Riley

    #30 Why should the State of California print party information on the ballot?

    Before the adoption of the Australian ballot, voters would simply write the name of the candidate they favored on a piece of paper and drop it in the ballot box. Those who wanted a secret ballot would keep it close to their vest (fill the ballot at home and put it in their vest pocket, and withdraw it at the polling place).

    Political parties would encourage voters to write the name of their candidate on their ballot. After courts ruled that printing of names on the ballot, included mechanical printing, political parties would prepare ballots. Newspapers might also print ballots which included names of often-mentioned candidates, but they might use their editorial judgement to exclude some candidates. Printers who were unscrupulous might change the names on the ballots they were printing, or different factions might support different slates of candidates. Parties might make fake ballots – perhaps claiming to be an Obama ballot, but with the names of Romney electors, or Republican down-ballot candidates.

    The parties would be printed with color (blue or red were popular) so that poll watchers could see who voted for who. There might be a free lunch available if you took a party ballot and voted it. Party toughs would try to prevent distribution of opposition ballots (lawyers such as Toby Moffett and Elizabeth Holtzman now perform this function). Since voters would bring self-prepared ballots to the polling place, they might fold several inside each other and stuff the ballot box.

    The intent of the Australian ballot was to eliminate these abuses. The original version in South Australia included two signatures, that of the nominator and that of the seconder. When the Australian ballot was first proposed in New York, the governor vetoed it, saying that it would eliminate the ability of what he referred to as “self nomination” – the ability to vote for anyone. His concerns were dismissed, because of the claim that it would be trivial to get on the ballot.

    We can see that he was right.

    Now you want you to turn control of the ballot over to private organizations. Do you that when some Pennsylvania Democratic County organizations printed ballots with a mix of Breckinridge and Douglas electors, and others did Douglas only it was the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s job to get the con-fusion sorted out?

    How is Debra Bowen supposed to know that John Burton speaks for the “Democratic Party” or that CT Weber speaks for the “Peace & Freedom Party”. If you want your system, then take the party names off the ballot completely.

    If the “Democratic Party” wishes wants to support Diane Feinstein let them pay for the advertizing. Let them distribute sample ballots so that the loyalists know who to vote for.

    Or let candidates pay for printing a slogan on the ballot. 65 signatures and a filing fee gets your name and occupation on the ballot. $123,000 or 95,000 signatures gets a candidate slogan on the ballot (that is $0.01 per ballot, or in lieu of signatures worth 10 minutes of minimum wage).

    Since California won’t need a partisan primary any more, they can move the general election to October, with a November runoff.

    I doubt you will be happy, though.

  32. Derek

    I have an idea. Invite third party candidates in the major party primaries. I always dreamed of what would happen if Perot had run in 92 as both a Democrat and Republican in the primaries.

  33. No Difference

    Obtaining ballot access is a lot of hard work, but even if it weren’t, I do not want interlopers claiming they share my political values when, in fact, they may not.

    This has been a huge issue in Arizona, where in nearly every election, some Republican-funded sock puppet is put up as a Green, thinking votes for this “Green” candidate will bleed some votes away from the Democrats.

    What is idiotic, of course, is that voters should first understand what each party stands for (if anything!). They should also take a look at the candidate’s political resume (if they have one!). That would make this practice nearly useless to outside manipulators who fund these sock puppets.

    But until the day when our voting electorate is knowledgeable enough about how the system actually works, who *ALL* of the parties are and what they stand for, and have the conscientiousness to objectively evaluate the different positions of these parties, much (but not all) of the discussion above will continue to be the norm.

    Again, I do not want my party’s ballot line filled by anyone who has not been nominated by my party. Government must not be legislating our rights, nor do I want the general public determining the candidates for my party. I especially do not want “independents” and members of competing parties helping to determine who we will be allowed to run in the general election.

    I/we have the right to do whatever our party wants to do, in whatever manner we feel is most appropriate. So does every other party and their membership. People have the right to create a party anywhere they want at any time, based on the simple Constitutional principle of free association.

    If some people don’t like the candidates existing parties put up, start your own political party, just like the others did. Yes, it is a LOT of hard work to get ballot access, not to mention the continuity of the enterprise. If you feel strongly enough about some issue or another, get together with others who share your positions and form a party.

    But never tell me or my party how and what WE must do to please YOU. That is none of your g-d business!

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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Kings Gameday: Stupid Noon Games

Los Angeles Kings (12-24-2, eep!) @ Colorado Avalanche (21-14-2, 5th in West)

Here I was, all ready to write a big post examining why the Kings have played so poorly this season (short version: they're awful at everything), but I forgot the game was at noon today. Whoops! Anyway, the Kings are terrible and have lost 8 games in a row; they haven't scored more than 3 goals in that span. They're not a team that's going to win a lot of 2-1 games, so they really need to pick up their scoring if they're going to have a chance today.

Remember when I wrote this and asked "Who would you disappear?" Apparently Dean Lombardi read that and decided he'd disappear John Zeiler. I'm not a big fan of John Zeiler because he sucks at hockey and his checks are meaningless, but I did appreciate the fact that he actually seemed to care. Kevin Dallman also broke his foot a week ago, so Jon Klemm got the call-up to sit on the bench. I guarantee you, though, that he will be playing important minutes of Tom Preissing. It's a lock.

We'll see how Crawford chooses to "set" his lines without Cammalleri in the line-up again; he'll probably go with Brown-Kopitar-O'Sully and Frolov-Armstrong-Nagy, although maybe he'll just say, "Fuck it," and put Bowlby up with Kopitar again. Did you guys see that? That was weird as hell.

I'm off for the rest of the new year and possibly a few days after it. Take a little time off yourself if you're a Kings fan and try to forget about their suckitude for a while. This is Valley Forge, people, and these are the times that try men's souls. All we can do is grit our teeth and accept it. Complaining about how badly the Kings suck isn't going to change anything, and picking up a guy like Marc Denis or Andrew Raycroft is only going to exacerbate our problems. We all knew this was going to be a rebuilding process; we can't throw in the towel just because we don't like losing.

Prediction: Long live the rebuild! Kings lose, 4-2. Goals by Handzus and Visnovsky.

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Earl Sleek said...

I don't know why you're so negative, Rudy. This was obviously set up for a Kings win.

That Crawford is a genius! He's been plotting for this game since December 10th!


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Fashion: SPRING: How To Wear Navy & White (with a pop of colour)

There are not many colour combinations that stand the test of time – navy and white are one of these. The quintessential Spring look, these colours are fresh and crisp and breezy.

I have put together some look books of classic navy and white outfits, but with the added pop of some current season colour. I hope that these outfits inspire you to find things in your wardrobe that can be brought back into the current season, whether it be accessories or items of clothing. If you do want to add some new items to your Spring/Summer wardrobe – here are some essentials for looking cool and crisp!

How To Wear Navy & White - with a splash of red

Whether you like it or not, shorts are back. This season’s shorts are mid thigh and high waisted, they look cool and hip – on just the right person. On me, they would look terrible! But, I do love them! I would swap the shorts for an A line navy skirt, it would give me the same kind of ‘I’m on the harbour looking fabulous’ feel, without revealing my thighs and backside in the same kind of unkind light.
I love the pops of red in this outfit, you all know I had to start with red didn’t you? Red, navy and white is a timeless combination – you just can’t go wrong {in my opinion anyway}.

How To Wear Navy & White with a pop of orange

Oh, white jeans. I used to wear you before I had children! I remember how crisp and cool I felt…
Now, they are part of a bit of a day dream…. This would be a great outfit for a picnic, just make sure you sit on a rug *wink*.  With a touch of orange the outfit moves away from being too nautical into something fresh and fun.

How to Wear Navy & White (with a pop of green)

 Navy and green are so cool together. I love the almost chevron stripes of the maxi dress and the touches of green bring with it breeziness and relaxation. Don’t you just love the FEEL of this? This outfit is all about being cool and comfortable. Close your eyes and think: deck, drink, ice, clinking, laughter…. oh … that sounds dreamy!

How To Wear Navy & White With A Pop Of Yellow

This outfit could almost be corporate if you worked in a relaxed and hip kind of workplace. I could certainly wear it teaching. I love that the basis of the outfit is navy and white but the pops of yellow add a brightness and a freshness that are so ‘on trend’.

I do like to write about colour….

How to wear neon when you are over 35

How to wear coloured jeans

Yellow: Keep Calm & Wear Yellow

Green: Inspired by the peacock

Orange: How to wear orange {a guest post over at Styling You}

Pastel: Pastels & Lace

Are you all set with colour to add to your outfits?

Are you excited about Spring?

I am!

This blog post is being linked in with the lovely lady Jess over at Diary of A Stay At Home Mum for I Blog on Tuesdays.

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  1. Wendy Langerak says:

    Wow, some lovely choices there early bird! I love that stripy dress, I have one similar. Actually I wore a chevron striped skirt to work yesterday, and I wore it on a rakish sideways angle, but no-one noticed!! Sigh, I must not be the fashionista I thought I was, lol!

  2. Love that stripey dress and love the navy/white/orange combo. Another great fashion How To post, B!
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  3. i was really scared of navy for a long time… but it works so wonderfully for me with white and red – love that you have given me some other thoughts an options xx
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  4. I love the navy look with red!!!! Totally me!!

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  5. Ok B , this I can do Yay! Love these colour combinations…I think knowing how to style the brighter colours with the classics is where I struggle. Thanks for the post. Xlisa

  6. Love these looks… especially with the outfit with the ‘pop’ of yellow!
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  7. What a great post B! I shared a pair of navy + white striped shoes on my ‘Not So Chic Playground Style’ post this week.

    Such a great colour combination and looks great with a pop of colour! x
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    • I did spy those stripy shoes – I had some in my ‘items’ ready to pop into my post actually… But, couldn’t find the right thing to go with them. I love navy and white, always have and always will…

      Oh – would you look at that – today I am wearing a navy striped t and my trusty red jeans. Noice.

  8. Great combos. I think the yellow and the green are my favourites. Rachel x
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  9. Have always loved navy … and I do believe all of these combos are winners!
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    • Thanks Nikki!

      I have always loved navy too – can be dressed up or down, summer or winter, it is such a great base colour to build on!

      Thanks so much for stopping by! MWAH!

  10. Wow, navy and white really looks great with bright bold ANY colour, doesn’t it? Every time you post blogs like this it makes me want to print it out, go shopping and get every outfit!
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  11. Fresh, chic and elegant. So unlike me 😉
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  12. I love your styling choices.
    The red white and navy is very me, but I am branching out into a love for splashes of green lately.
    Also loving the orange with the navy and white!
    Ah white jeans…could be dangerous with four kiddo’s but I looks so fresh.

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By Jason Wojciechowski on May 2, 2004 at 2:00 AM

So the A's finally won again. The offense was still crap, since they only managed four hits and a walk against Doug Waechter and two relievers, but luckily, two of those hits were homers by Erubiel Durazo, and each was preceded by a walk or hit, so the A's managed four runs despite the otherwise dismal hitting.

The win is more thanks to Mark Redman's six and two thirds shutout innings than it is to any shaking off of offensive doldrums on the A's part.

Arthur Rhodes is looking pretty alarming for a guy with a three-year contract, as he gave up two home runs, then let the bases get juiced before getting out of the 9th inning with an A's win. It's similar to what he did against the Yankees on Wednesday, giving up a leadoff homer to Jason Giambi, then loading the bases before getting out of the inning. In both cases, the outcome of the game wasn't changed, as the A's lost 5-1 instead of 4-1 on Wednesday, and won 4-2 instead of 4-0 last night. Obviously, though, that doesn't change the fact that Rhodes has a 4.09 ERA at this point, and has probably made a number of A's fans long for the days of good ol' Billy Taylor in the closer role.

At least Chad Bradford pitched well again, going an inning and a third to bridge the gap between Redman and Rhodes. Bradford was also pitching when the A's caught Carl Crawford stealing, helping his reputation as a guy who holds runners well. Crawford had an awful night on the bases, as he was picked off and caught stealing, nullifying any utility his two singles may have had for the Devil Rays.

Mark Redman 6.9 5 32 2.81
Ted Lilly 5.7 4 25 4.32
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Keith Foulke 9.7 12 15 0.60
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Ramon Hernandez -1.1 -.200 .321 .275 79
Bobby Crosby 0.7 -.217 .279 .393 66
Miguel Tejada 9.6 .200 .371 .446 98
Mark Kotsay 0.1 -.178 .309 .284 95
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The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003

Go to Article List for Southern Changes. Volume 2, Number 3, 1979

The Election of Birmingham's Black Mayor

By Ron Casey

Vol. 2, No. 3., 1979, pp. 11-14

Apparently there were two sets of voices vying- for Officer George Sand's attention as Birmingham Police Department car 71 pulled into the convenience store lot the night of June 22. The first was that of a White store employee whose co-worker stood inside with a bullet wound in his shoulder. "They're in there," Sands would later say he heard the worker yell as he pointed to a dark green Buick on the parking lot. "Look out. They've got a shotgun. They shot Mike." A group of Blacks would later testify they had been standing across the street yelling a different message to Sands: a warning he did not acknowledge.

In plainclothes and with drawn revolver, Sands and his partner began to edge toward the car, commanding its occupant to remain still. As the two officers reached the back door of the vehicle, the passenger lunged suddenly downward into the seat. Sands responded with an almost instantaneous burst of gunfire. Three of his four bullets struck 21 year old Bonita Carter in the back. Later it would be learned that the young Black woman had apparently had nothing to do with the assault on the store employee. She had been an acquaintance of the assailant and had gotten into the car at his request when he ran away.

The shooting awoke racial tensions in Birmingham that had lain dormant for more than a decade. And those tensions would become a double-edged sword that would, on the one hand, cut through the city's racial past and pave the way for its first Black mayor and, on the other, hound a man of long standing liberal credentials from office.

David Vann, a onetime law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and a Birmingham attorney, had been elected mayor of the city four years before by the narrowest of margins after forming a shaky coalition of liberal Whites and Blacks. That was possible because the city that elected Vann was drastically different from the White supremist steel town of the early 1960s. In the decade since the days of Bull Connor' White suburban flight had almost equalized the city's racial make-up and the young, but growing, University of Alabama in Birmingham, with its mammoth medical complex, had replaced U.S. Steel as the city's largest employer.

Still, when Vann first got word of the Carter incident, he must have sensed its potential for harm. -His liberal reputation did not make him popular with the city's conservative Whites. He had

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been instrumental in filing the suit that brought an end to the decades-old gerrymandering of the Alabama Legislature making "one man - one vote" the law of the land and had also been one of the driving forces behind a change in Birmingham's form of government that drove the segregationists of the 60s from office.

With the Carter shooting, his strength in the Black community, he must have known, was being blasted away by a hail of gunfire from a policeman's revolver.

Try as he might, Vann would not be able to find a common ground that would allow him to compromise the issue. On one side were the city's Black leaders, led by local SCLC President Abraham Woods, who were clamoring for Sand's dismissal. On the other side were the members of the Birmingham Fraternal Order of Police, the closest thing in Birmingham to a police union. Only a couple of months before, they had called their first strike ever, and after the Carter shooting, they were demanding that Sands be left on the force until a grand jury could look into the matter.

Vann tried his first compromise; Sands would remain on the force while a biracial committee of eight civic and religious leaders held open hearings and took sworn testimony on the matter. In the meantime, Vann also would call for a review of the situation by the police department's own Firearms Discharge Review Board.

After more than a week of testimony, the ad hoc committee reported it could find no justification for the shooting. The police board, however, voted 5-1 that the shooting was within department policy. Vann again was faced with a dilemma.

Again, he tried a compromise. Sands was within policy so he could not be fired, said Vann. But that was only because the policy was faulty. Vann ordered it changed and also ordered that police officers be given training that would make them less likely to use unnecessary force.

The compromise pleased no one. Blacks were not only irked by the Bonita Carter incident, they were also mindful of the fact that similar incidents had gone largely without resolution in the city's recent past. Within a week after Vann announced his decision, thousands of demonstrators, led by Woods and SCLC national President Joseph Lowery, converged on Birmingham's main street for a protest march. It was the largest held in the city since the 1960s. At the end of the march, however, instead of police dogs and fire hoses, the marchers met David Vann who had arranged for

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them to have a stage and sound equipment. He marched the last few steps of the demonstration himself singing "We Shall Overcome" with the marchers.

Vann's conciliatory gesture only caused him more political problems with conservative Whites, who felt he had sold out the police department. And his efforts did him little good with the Blacks. Black leaders announced they would begin a "selective boycott," saying that certain White business in the city would be affected. The boycott would not end, they said, until Sands was removed from the force. Vann held firm while the boycott plans were being laid. But shortly after Blacks met with representatives of the Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce, another curious event transpired. Vann suddenly announced that Sands' lawyer had sent him a medical report. Sands, said the report, had been affected by all the tremendous strain he had been under and would have to retire from the force indefinitely.

It had taken about 30 days for the coalition that David Vann had been nurturing for four years to be ripped apart. As summer wore into September, and the pack began to gather for the October election, it was becoming clear that for Vann the handwriting was on the wall.

The pack that gathered ranged all the way from the likes of Mohammed Oliver of the Socialist Workers Party to Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Don Black. It also included one of Vann's longtime allies and the man who probably more than any other had been responsible for shaping the political fortunes that put Vann in office - Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. Four years before, as both Arrington and Vann sat on the City Council, Arrington began to air a series of citizen police brutality charges in open meetings, placing then Mayor George Seibels in the same kind of situation that the Bonita Carter incident would leave Vann facing. Arrington, a Black educator, subsequently endorsed Vann and swung massive Black support his way.

Also in the 1979 race were City Councilman John Katapodis, a Harvard-educated former Birmingham school board employee, Larry Langford, a city councilman and onetime television news reporter, and Frank Parsons, a local attorney and travel agency president.

Despite the racial overtones, it was a relatively lackluster campaign. Of the major candidates, Vann campaigned on his record and Arrington on his eight years experience as a councilman and abilities as an administrator. The only controversy that surfaced concerned an incident that won Parsons the almost unanimous condemnation of the Birmingham media. Speaking before an all-White civic club, Parsons told members words to the effect that Blacks in the city would bloc vote and that Whites had better do the same if they didn't want to end up with a Black police chief.

That incident would make the run-off election that followed all the more tense. After all the primary ballots had been counted, the city had pretty much voted a racial ticket. Blacks, by and large, voted for Blacks and Whites voted for Whites. Arrington led the ballot with 33 percent of the vote and only a small portion of that coming from Whites. The closest man in the race was Parsons who had only 16.5 percent of the ballots, all White. Vann, who had been armed with a $70,000 campaign arsenal (a good portion of which came from businessmen and leaders in Birmingham's suburbs) finished a dismal fourth behind Katapodis. Most of Vann's votes came from the affluent, White Forest Park section of the city and the area around the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The mayor did not carry a single Black box.

During the next three weeks, the campaign between Arrington and Parsons would further polarize the city and draw two former mayors into the contest.

Birmingham has more registered White voters than Blacks (71.259 - 57,301). Parsons knew his best chance to win was with a heavy White turnout.

For Arrington, there was a slightly different

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game to be played and, in some ways, a much harder one. That game consisted of: (1) turning out a record Black vote; and (2) at the same time capturing at least 10 percent of the White ballots in a city which had gained a national reputation for its racial prejudice.

But Arrington would have help in his effort. Both the city's major newspapers endorsed the former college dean and to help overcome the fears of the White business community, Alabama Lt. Gov. George McMillan, a native of the Birmingham area, hosted a luncheon for Arrington which had as its drawing card the appearance of most of the city's other elected officials. Though Vann would refuse to endorse anyone outright, as the campaign developed, he would make it known that he personally planned to vote for Arrington.

In the Parsons' camp was former Mayor George Seibels - the man Vann and Arrington had been able to unseat four years before. Seibels took out full-page newspaper advertisements accusing Arrington of racial politics and of playing political football with the Birmingham Police Department. Though the Fraternal Order of Police would not endorse candidates for fear of losing the organization's tax-exempt status, a group of police wives took out ads supporting Parsons and several hastily-organized "law and order" groups gave Parsons their endorsement.

The effect of the pressure on city voters was evident on election day. Some 68.8 percent of the voters turned out.

Though it was nip and tuck through most of the long night of vote tallying, Arrington finally took the election by a margin of only 2.2 percent. He had won it by turning out massive support in all the city's Black boxes and by being able to pick up somewhere between 12-15 percent of the Whites vote, a substantial portion of which came from the areas of the city that had supported Vann during the primary.

Two weeks later, after a graceful concession speech by Parsons and calls for unity from Parsons, Seibels and Vann, Richard Arrington Jr. was sworn in as Birmingham's first Black mayor. Looking out over the crowd in Boutwell Auditorium - named for former Mayor Albert Boutwell who had been in office during much of the racial turmoil of the 60s - Arrington recalled how his father, a sharecropper, had been forced to borrow the money for the bus ticket that brought him to Birmingham and a job in the hot steel mills.

"The story of my parents' quest for a better quality of life and their faith that it could be found in this valley is the story of many other families who came to Birmingham seeking a better chance," said Arrington as Parsons, Seibels and Vann looked on from the speakers platform ". . - In this valley they have been able to make a decent living, to educate their children and to watch this valley grow; and for some, like my parents, to see their children attain positions of responsibility they never dreamed of."

Ron Casey is an editorial writer for the Birmingham News.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

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This New Era promo is based on real life. I have one son who loves to stay up late reading in bed. But he doesn't read junk: Shakespeare, Tolkien, Orson Scott Card, Watterson, Schulz, Borgman and Scott, Van De Graaff... And, yes, the New Era.

  1. You're kidding, right? One of those things is not like the others. Thanks for the nice complement, though.

    (I'm really enjoying these posts and not at all surprised that you were able to come up with so many, quality gags on the New Era.)

    1. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that your book is under his bed right now. Probably next to The Return of the King or one of the Far Side collections.


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As with the outbreak of EHV-1, the livestock and rodeo industry share a concern for disease transmission. Not only is disease an economic concern, but it is also highly visible to the general public. In cattle, bovine tuberculsosis (TB) is an area where both rodeo and livestock understand the importance and risk associated with transportation.

Bovine TB is something we’re working with state, federal and international animal health agencies regarding Mexico-origin cattle,” Schonholtz says. “Even though it’s an issue everyone in rodeo faces, veterinarians are really the people we look to in this area.”

Contagious disease like bovine TB is an area requiring the expertise of stock contractors, veterinarians, livestock producers and government officials, Dr. Corey notes.

“The people that have the steers from Mexico, even though they are TB-tested, our job is to make sure they don’t stable or stall next to native bulls or calves because if they touch noses they can spread the disease,” Dr. Corey says. “We also advise that if they go home, they should not be comingled. That is a new challenge and trying to spread that word is going to take a long time.”

In his work as a livestock superintendent, Dr. Barnes advises evaluating the rodeo facilities and formulating a plan to prevent the spread of disease and keep animals healthy.

“It doesn’t make any difference as to size or budget of the rodeo, it’s what you’re able to think through and adapt to,” Dr. Barnes says. “For example: Shade for the calves. Some people think you might need a big building, but you can hang a tarp up, and that works well. If water isn’t easily accessible, you can just make yourself more available to bring water in as needed.”

To protect against disease transmission, Dr. Barnes also advises that stock be brought in ahead of time, but kept offsite and isolated before being comingled at the rodeo. The time allows animals to be watched for signs of disease and also to adjust to their new surroundings.

Planning for veterinary care is another element Dr. Barnes considers closely.

“We’re in contact with our hometown veterinarian all the time,” he says. “If we’re on the road and have something that we feel is going wrong, we’ll have a veterinarian on the road look at them. Paying attention is the best advice to controlling disease.”


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Effective immediately, all classes of U.S. cattle, including those for breeding purposes born after 1999, are eligible for entry into Canada based on prescribed certification requirements, Canada announced this week. Beef from cattle over 30 months of age will also be eligible for importation under certain conditions.

USDA Secretary Mike Johanns lauded Canada's further normalization of trade in beef and beef products.
"We are very pleased that today's announcement as we have worked closely with our Canadian counterparts establish a trading system that follows World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) guidelines for the safe trade of beef and beef products."

Meanwhile, Johanns expressed disappointment with China's announcement this week of "a limited market opening that only includes U.S. boneless beef under 30 months of age."

Johanns says China agreed at an April meeting of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade in Washington, D.C., to reopen its market to U.S. beef by June 30 following the development of a science-based trading protocol, consistent with World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) guidelines.

"We have fully described the numerous safeguards in our system, answered many questions and delivered an abundance of factual, science-based assurances that U.S. beef is safe.

"It's time for China to open its market to all U.S. beef products, in accordance with the international standards established by the OIE," Johanns says.
-- Joe Roybal


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Hierarchy of Operations

The preference in which arithematic operations are performed in an arithematic expression is called as Hierarchy of operations.
Its very important in C Programming to predefine the Hierarchy of operations to the C compiler in order to solve the given arithematic expression correctly.
e.g.: If a programmer wishes to perform ,z=a+b/c;it may be interpretted as z=(a+b)/c or z=a+(b/c).
and if a=3,b=6,c=2 then using the same expression we will obtain two different answwers as z=4.5 or z=6.
To avoid this condition we must be aware of hierarchy of operations used in C programming.
In arithematic expressions scanning is always done from left to right.
The priority of operations is as shown below,
Priority Operators
First Paranthesis os brackets()
Second Multiplication & Divison
Third Addition & Substraction
Fourth Assignment i.e.=

If we consider the logical operators used in C language,the operator precedence will be like;

Operators Type
! Logical NOT
* / % Arithmetic and moulus
+ - Aritmetic
== !=Relational
&&Logical AND
||Logical OR

In the tables above,the higher the position of an operator,higher is its priority.

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