June 8th: Proposition 14 Passes, paving the way for more abuse and disenfranchisement of Independent voter's rights
     Proposition 14 was passed by the voters on June 8th, after the Chamber of Commerce and other opponents of the Independent movement spent huge amounts of money on ads to convince the electorate that proposition 14 would improve the way we conduct elections in the State of California. Actually, the proposition was written by a team comprising politicos from the two major parties, along with Chamber of Commerce lobbyist, in order to allow candidates from the two major parties to masquerade as Independents when they run for office. They need to hide their shame-filled membership in The Democratic or Republican Parties for good reason, and proposition 14 allows them to do that.
     The provision that may be the most damaging to any person considering running for office as an Independent, is the clause that changes the name of persons who - in the past - were referred to as non-partisans or by their popular brand name, 'Independents', into voters and candidates 'without a party preference' (even if we do, as Independents, prefer one major party over another). That's like calling people from Boston who don't wear a Sox's cap to work, 'people who don't prefer any particular baseball team'. How can this law be constitutional when it places a label upon Independents that probably has no basis or validity (that people registered as Independents, don't prefer any political party over another). The new 'description' of Independents, did not have to placed in the law at all. There's no rational connection between the stated purposes of the law, and the decision to destroy the only remaining brand name in politics that has positive value.
     Then proposition 14 allows Democrats and Republicans to also call themselves 'persons without a party preference', even though they are members of one of the two major parties. So 'Independents' lose their brand name, and the Republicans and Democrats have been given express permission via the law, to steal the new brand name assigned to Independents by the Republicans and Democrats.
       The provision that allows for Independents to run in primaries is a provision that could backfire on the major parties, if Independents continue to grow in number, and providing Independents . . . READ MORE

Also see our Legal Battles link - here - for details on how Independents can challenge the unfair provisions of Proposition 14 in Court, before too much damage is done to our brand name.