Subject: www.sacbee.com - Dan Walters: Primary election, once a reform, now needs reforming itself
From: Richard Winger
Date: 6/11/2006, 12:34 PM
To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu

Hello,

The following story from the Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com)
was sent to you by: Richard Winger (ban@richardwinger.com).

You can read this story in its entirety on the web at:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14266664p-15078576c.html

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Dan Walters: Primary election, once a reform, now needs reforming itself

Published 12:01 am PDT Sunday, June 11, 2006


The direct primary election was one of the key populist reforms
that California adopted in the early 20th century to make
its politics less beholden to special interests such as the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
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