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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York City would hold on to its outdated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.
Tomorrow 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.
Register now!
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