tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569538392853362223.post1815680451028481598..comments2008-09-03T20:28:31.686-04:00Dick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01558971681331227364noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569538392853362223.post-22423668791602582062008-09-03T19:14:00.000-04:002008-09-03T19:14:00.000-04:00I think we all like to believe in the democratic participatory process. <BR/><BR/>So long as the local political Town Committees act as election candidate "gate-keepers", many more much more qualified candidates will be passed-up for the "good old boy" instead. <BR/><BR/>Too many local political parties make party control the top priority over the good of the community second. Except for the bragging rights, nobody wins.<BR/><BR/>DN ConnecticutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569538392853362223.post-77473573709647505712008-08-09T08:23:00.000-04:002008-08-09T08:23:00.000-04:00Glad to see your opposition to this idea.........if our country was founded on a two party (or more) system, with appropriate checks and balances, etc. and if the proverbial saying "that all politics is local" has any truth.................then non-partisan local elections just don't pan out in my book............and since when has Aiken won any municipal awards, etc. or achieved great progress by copying the known failures of the rest of the state............A no party system will turn into and is essentially a one party system...........the Special Interest Party (SIP)...........however, they will not "sip," they will "binge"...........and if all politics is local, this idea could eventually spread to the state and the nation, and in many ways, has already................kind of like the bad idea of a one world government, etc.......The impetus behind this idea is that everybody is afraid to run...........afraid of who..........well, in my mind they are afraid of the same people who will benefit most from non-partisan local elections.....................if this "works" it will be because many special interest groups will now subversively submit candidates for election in bulk and soon we will be engulfed with the same problems our friends are having just a hop, skip, and a jump across the river............and elsewhere............however, once changed, the decision will never be reversed..................Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569538392853362223.post-74471153103874467632008-08-09T07:49:00.000-04:002008-08-09T07:49:00.000-04:00I am opposed to non-partisan elections. There is no honest and pressing reason to do it. "Beware the paradise proferred by politicians".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569538392853362223.post-78761724193319883752008-08-05T09:29:00.000-04:002008-08-05T09:29:00.000-04:00The Aiken Standard is in favor of non-partisan elections and will do its customary biased reporting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569538392853362223.post-24917608817352430032008-08-05T06:48:00.000-04:002008-08-05T06:48:00.000-04:00I hope this election gets suitable attention from the Aiken Standard and that the turn-out is high.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com