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January 27, 2012

Strategy of the Democrats

The Commerce Journal The Cullman Times Fri Mar 30, 2012, 05:20 PM CDT

CULLMAN — Benjamin Bullard's article in the Jan. 16 edition of The Cullman Times, accurately describes the local Democrat strategy for elections. Their leaders hand pick just one candidate for each office to prevent any competition for their chosen candidates. They deliberately eliminate Democrat primaries and then urge their members to vote in the Republican primary to pick the Republicans their chosen candidates will run against.

By contrast, Republicans strongly believe all Cullman County Republicans should have the opportunity to select their candidates through the primary election process. I believe it is ethically wrong for leaders in either party to have a strategy to manipulate elections.

Several states, including Florida, have eliminated this problem by having closed primaries. Anyone wanting to vote in a primary must register as a Democrat or Republican and can only vote in their chosen primary. Closed primaries do not affect the general election to allow voters to split their votes between candidates of all parties. Voters can re-register if they want to switch party affiliation.

Regardless of their election manipulation strategy, local Democratic candidates have the problem of Obama and the ultra-liberal agenda of their party. The Alabama democrat party chairman, Mark Kennedy, was quoted in the Mobile Press Register last May saying, "next year we're going to be proud to stand by Barack Obama as our nominee. He is a good president, he is a good Democrat and he is worthy of consideration, or more importantly he is worthy of our praise."

I'm confident an overwhelming majority of local voters (including Independents and Democrats) do not agree with the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party.

David Ozment

Vinemont

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