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Six months ago, it seemed like New
York City would hold on to its outdated
Boss-Tweed-style-closed-primary-election-system
forever. But then everything changed. New Yorkers spoke out and the recently
appointed Charter Revision Commission listened. Primary reform is now
squarely on the agenda in NYC - click
here to read the commission’s preliminary report.
Independents and reformers tried to
bring open primaries to NYC in 2002, 2003, and 2010, but we were
chewed up and spit out by an entrenched establishment. But as the
number of independent voters soared (well past one million now, twice
as many as Republicans) and voter turnout declined, new possibilities
began to emerge.
On Wednesday May
28th at 11AM ET John Opdycke
will sit down with John Avlon, an award-winning journalist, author, news
anchor and media executive. He is a former CNN senior political
analyst and anchor, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, and the 2024
Democratic congressional nominee in New York’s First District. He
currently hosts a solutions journalism podcast on The xxxxxx called
“How to Fix
It” and serves as the
Chairman of Citizens Union, New York’s oldest good government group.
John is a long time open primaries leader.
They will explore what’s changed,
where we are in the process, and what a shift to open primaries could
mean for NYC and the country.
See you on the 28th!
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