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[Jimi77 Premium Member]

When did the parties become private entities?

The political parties are indeed private entities; probably been that way since the founding fathers.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

The parties have always been...

I thought the courts said "nope" when they tried to prevent blacks from being involved, by claiming the party was "private".
Or is that a Mandela moment in my memory?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Are you ready for climate lockdowns?

“"They're leaning to that direction," U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart recently told Just the News. "If you grant the president's emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it's just like COVID.”

Stewart also said such a declaration would give the president “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure."”

“Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer recently introduced legislation to require Biden to make such a declaration that also was co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats.”

“"What’s more important: keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?” he asked.”

Energy industry fears Biden to declare climate emergency, seize powers like COVID pandemic

U.S. Oil and Gas Association's president warned such a move would be a COVID 2.0.

justthenews.com

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

I thought the courts said "nope" when they tried to prevent blacks from being involved, by claiming the party was "private".
Or is that a Mandela moment in my memory?

The courts said they had to allow black candidates because of discrimination...they've always upheld the parties as private though

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Denver/Metro's homelessness isn't getting the press that the left coast is, but it's pretty bad. I live in the Aurora suburb, which has an rarely/unenforced camping ban as does Denver. So when Denver does these sweeps, it just chases these folks into Aurora and vice-versa. Offering trash service seems like a catch 22. There is some private group that offers mobile showers/bathrooms. I'm for calling these encampments what they actually are "open-air drug markets."

Denver begins trash service for some sidewalk encampments

It's part of Mayor Mike Johnston's solution to Denver's housing and homelessness crises, but comes as the city prepares its first large-scale sweep of Johnston's tenure.

denverite.com

People living in downtown encampment brace for first round of city sweeps under Johnston administration

Ahead of the first encampment sweep of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's administration, the city sent outreach groups to help relocate and offer services to people who live there.

www.denver7.com

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Facebook is a private entity and could choose not to act.

That said, NEITHER party should be doing it:

Twitter Kept Entire 'Database' of Republican Requests to Censor Posts

Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down

www.rollingstone.com

Twitter Kept Entire ‘Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts​

Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down

The GOP wanted posts censored - no way, they're the 1st Amendment Party.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Drone swarms

"Encounters with small unidentified "objects," sometimes in swarm-like groups of as many as eight. Sightings of other objects, including some characterized as drones, flying at altitudes up to 36,000 feet and as fast as Mach 0.75. Another apparent small drone actually hitting the canopy of an F-16 Viper causing damage."

"The War Zone was the first to report on the worrying appearance of drone swarms over the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Arizona across multiple nights in September 2019."

"Since the year began, there have also been still more instances of military aircraft encountering what are explicitly identified as drones in these areas."

"If nothing else, the publicly available FAA logs together with the newly released Air Force data point to an increasing number of worrisome and potentially dangerous encounters with drones and other unidentified aerial objects."

Pilots Are Seeing Some Very Strange Things In Arizona's Military Training Ranges

U.S. fighter jets are having worrisome aerial encounters in Arizona's restricted air combat training areas, which fits with a broader trend.

www.thedrive.com

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

The courts said they had to allow black candidates because of discrimination...they've always upheld the parties as private though

So they can refuse someone from being a member of the party for ANY reason other than skin color (or I assume the other protected statuses)?

Interestingly, there is a dearth of info on it, but a lawsuit decision seems to make them public, unless a later decision changed that?
"One of the first questions surrounding the regulation of political parties is whether a party is a public or a private association. In a series of decisions known as the “White Primary Cases” from Texas in the 1920s to the 1940s, the Supreme Court vacillated between ruling that the Democratic Party primaries in that state were private—and therefore the party could exclude African Americans from participating—or subject to state and congressional regulation such that discrimination could be prohibited. Eventually in United States v. Classic (1941) and Smith v. Allwright (1944), the Court ruled that the party primaries were subject to regulation and that African Americans could not be barred from participating."

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

The GOP wanted posts censored - no way, they're the 1st Amendment Party.

They are. Unless they don't want you to be able to vote in their primaries.
Because, you know, only REPUBLICANS should have the right to vote

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

So they can refuse someone from being a member of the party for ANY reason other than skin color (or I assume the other protected statuses)?

Interestingly, there is a dearth of info on it, but a lawsuit decision seems to make them public, unless a later decision changed that?
"One of the first questions surrounding the regulation of political parties is whether a party is a public or a private association. In a series of decisions known as the “White Primary Cases” from Texas in the 1920s to the 1940s, the Supreme Court vacillated between ruling that the Democratic Party primaries in that state were private—and therefore the party could exclude African Americans from participating—or subject to state and congressional regulation such that discrimination could be prohibited. Eventually in United States v. Classic (1941) and Smith v. Allwright (1944), the Court ruled that the party primaries were subject to regulation and that African Americans could not be barred from participating."

If you're not a registered member...the parties don't have to allow a say in their candidates...

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

If you're not a registered member...the parties don't have to allow a say in their candidates...

That sure seems to be what they are shooting for.
Seems to be a violation of voting rights. At what point will they get to tell a libertarian or independent that they can't vote in a a Republican v. Democrat presidential election?

Unaffiliated members have been able to vote in a primary for any party since 2016, when 53%+ of Coloradans voted to allow it:

Colorado Unaffiliated Elector, Proposition 108 (2016)

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

ballotpedia.org

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Denver/Metro's homelessness isn't getting the press that the left coast is, but it's pretty bad. I live in the Aurora suburb, which has an rarely/unenforced camping ban as does Denver. So when Denver does these sweeps, it just chases these folks into Aurora and vice-versa. Offering trash service seems like a catch 22. There is some private group that offers mobile showers/bathrooms. I'm for calling these encampments what they actually are "open-air drug markets."

Denver begins trash service for some sidewalk encampments

It's part of Mayor Mike Johnston's solution to Denver's housing and homelessness crises, but comes as the city prepares its first large-scale sweep of Johnston's tenure.

denverite.com

People living in downtown encampment brace for first round of city sweeps under Johnston administration

Ahead of the first encampment sweep of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's administration, the city sent outreach groups to help relocate and offer services to people who live there.

www.denver7.com

Wait till aclu steps in for cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Homeless agencies are a like a business and grown much like capitalism The catch once they start they rarely go away.