Democrats in the California legislature already changed state law to
accommodate the Republican convention schedule. What is interesting is that
the Republicans want to extend state deadlines for qualifying for the
ballot, but those same Republicans used the electoral college deadlines as
the excuse to stop the re-count in Florida.
Larry Levine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Johnson-Weinberger" <proportionalrepresentation@msn.com>
To: <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Illinois ballot for Bush

If you're interested in some of the political dynamics of the Bush on the
ballot situation in Illinois, I've been in Springfield and blogged about

it

from my progressive perspective:

www.djwinfo.blogspot.com

(The bottom line is that the Bush campaign's decision to schedule the RNC
convention in early September in clear violation of about a dozen state

laws

shouldn't be framed as a 'quirk' or 'technicality' in state laws that any
reasonable observer would say ought be fixed. Instead, Democrats should
decide whether to accommodate the hardball politics of the Bush
Administration by changing state law or whether to play hardball right

back.

And it's interesting to see the media frame the question almost

exclusively

the first way).

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