[EL] The Real Crime of the Caucus Process is Not Cruz’s Mailer but the Caucus Process Itself

[David A. Holtzman]

[oops, forgot to change the subject!]

On 1/31/2016 4:03 PM, David A. Holtzman wrote:
> and see my 2008 NYT LTE 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/opinion/lweb05iowa.html?pagewanted=all>  
> :-)
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> On 1/31/2016 2:56 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:
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>>     The Real Crime of the Caucus Process is Not Cruz’s Mailer but the
>>     Caucus Process Itself <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79438>
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>> Posted onJanuary 31, 2016 2:05 pm 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79438>byRick Hasen 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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>> Look 
>> <http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ted-cruzs-iowa-mailers-are-more-fraudulent-than-everyone-thinks?reload>at 
>> how Ryan Lizza’s piece on the Ted Cruzmisleading 
>> mailers<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79435>ends:
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>>     Donna Holstein, who was listed on one of them, was upset to learn
>>     that she had been given a failing grade and that her neighbors
>>     might be told whether she participates in the caucus or not. She
>>     told me that she has voted consistently but that she can’t this
>>     time because of a disability.
>>
>>     “I’m crippled, so I can’t go to the caucus,” Holstein said. She
>>     was not happy about being shamed in front of her neighbors.
>>     “That’s what you call a bully,” she said about Cruz’s tactics. “I
>>     wish he would quit.”
>>
>> The caucus system is inherently discriminatory against those who are 
>> disabled, or who have to work or travel during caucus time.  See my 
>> 2012 Slate piece:Kill the Caucuses! 
>> <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/02/congress_should_kill_the_republican_and_democratic_state_caucuses_and_mandate_primaries_instead_.html>
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