On October 11, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 1396. It repeals sections of the Election Code that tell the Democratic Party who should be on its State Central Committee, and when and how county central committees elect members to the State Central Committee, and that members should be divided as equally as possible between men and women, and how to fill vacancies.
A similar bill, deregulating similar provisions for the Republican Party, had been signed into law in 2007.
Similar laws still exist in the California election law that relate to how the American Independent Party, and the Peace & Freedom Party, should be structured. Parties that qualified in the 1980’s and 1990’s have never had their rules in the Election Code, except that when they qualified, they were required to choose one of the organization schemes for one of the parties that did have rules in the Code. Those parties (Libertarian, Green, Natural Law, Reform) all chose the Peace & Freedom plan.
See the Eu case in CA in 1989 — ignored by the party hack CA legislature for about 20 years.
PUBLIC party hack stuff for PUBLIC nominations for PUBLIC offices.
PRIVATE party hack stuff for internal clubby PRIVATE stuff — NOT controlled by state laws.
Too difficult for the party hack MORONS to understand.
Regardless of where any AIPer stands on the issue, the rules for the American Independent Party also needs to be deregulated as well.