Democrats in California are not high primary voters, often being willing to go with the party flow as long as the primary fight isn't too bitter and show up in November to vote for whomever was nominated.
CA GOP leaders have noticed and used this factor for decades. The article referenced here notes the most notorious use of a state primary election, the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, widely noted to be the main cause of California's decline.
Democrats were happy with Jerry Brown that year and didn't feel they needed to go vote in a primary where has likely to win the chance for a second term anyway.
But Prop 13 has crippled the state since, by requiring a 2/3 vote to get out of extreme austerity measures imposed by a simple majority.
And now Republicans find a new redistricting plan, recommended by a bipartisan group voted for by Californians a couple of years ago cutting their power to it's honest size .
Since the plan empowers more Latino Americans whose voting power had been suppressed for decades it may create more Democratic seats, which is sending the GOP into a tizzy.
Now they claim that taking away their unfair advantage is taking away democracy and are calling for a sugardaddy to help them get it back. The one big cloud here is that donor need not be a resident of the state.
Now that's a change that needs to happen.
Should the Koch bros be able to control California though they live elsewhere?
I don't think so.
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